OpenMI
Open Modelling Interface

EU Funded Project
Project funded by EU LIFE Programme

OpenMI

The OpenMI (Open Modelling Interface) provides a standard which facilitates the linking of simulation models of environmental and socio-economic processes.

A software development kit is provided to simplify the process of making models OpenMI compliant, linking and running them.

The driver for the OpenMI has been the increasing need to understand how processes interact, thus enabling the wider impacts of policies and events to be predicted more accurately.

OpenMI-LIFE

OpenMI-LIFE is a €4m, three-and-a-half year LIFE Environment Programme project, co-funded by the European Commission. Its objective is to transform the OpenMI, which was developed in the Framework 5 HarmonIT project, from a research output to a sustainable operational product.

The OpenMI Association

The international OpenMI Association is an independent, non-profitmaking organisation which is funded until January 2010 by the EU's LIFE programme. Its primary objectives are to develop, maintain and promote the OpenMI.

What is CEH’s role in the OpenMI Association? 

CEH has played a leading role in the development of the OpenMI Association, first under the HarmonIT project and now the OpenMI-LIFE project.

CEH's Roger Moore (rvm@ceh.ac.uk) is currently chairman of the OpenMI Association, and is supported by Hazel Murphy (harp@ceh.ac.uk).

For more information about the OpenMI Association and its activities, please visit www.OpenMI.org.