excellence. The RF E&E was rated outstanding across all Programs and infrastructures. Integration with national and international activities. The framing for research in the RF E&E is the ‘Fu- ture Earth’ [...] development of the RF E&E was advanced significantly in 2016 and 2017 with a suite of joint bot- tom-up and top-down science workshops to design a joint Program for all seven centers of the RF E&E for PoF IV. During [...] r 13 See Strategic Guidelines: ‘Global objectives of the RF E&E: (Transfer)’. 14 See Strategic Guidelines: ‘Global objectives of the RF E&E: (Staff)’. 1 Research Field Earth & Environment 1.4.4 Innovation