The European Catalogue of Volcanoes and Volcanic Areas (ECV) is a unique coherent pan-European database created through a common effort of the European volcano observatories. It contains detailed information on selected key volcanoes and their related hazards as well as location of active volcanoes within the monitoring territories of France, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain and the UK. The ECV was created in the European project EUROVOLC (2018-2021), using the previously designed Catalogue of Icelandic Volcanoes (CIV) from the European FUTUREVOLC project (2012-2016) as a template. Information from CIV is also available through ECV. The ECV will be included in the EPOS service portfolio (https://www.ics-c.epos-eu.org) in the near future.

The following volcano observatories and research institutions took part in the development and data gathering for the ECV: Icelandic Meteorological Office (IMO) and Institute of Earth Sciences, University of Iceland (UI) from Iceland; Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV) from Italy; Centro de Informação e Vigilância Sismovulcânica dos Açores (CIVISA) from Portugal; Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPGP) and Université Clermont Auvergne (UCA) from France; Hellenic Survey of Geology and Mineral Exploration (HSGME) from Greece; Agencia Estatal Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) and IGN from Spain; Natural Environmental Research Council (NERC) and Met Office from the UK; the Arctic University of Norway from Norway and Koninklijk Nederlands Neteorologisch Instituut (KNMI) from the Netherlands.

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation action under grant agreement No 731070.