WISER is an international network of research and training centres of excellence dedicated to promote collaboration in cutting-edge space environment research, and training of first-rate space scientists, with emphasis on the application of information technology to theoretical and computational studies of space plasmas and atmospheres, space data analysis, space weather forecasting, and monitoring the impact of space weather on the Earth's climate, environment and technology.

Space environment refers to the regions of space on the Sun and in the heliosphere, magnetosphere, ionosphere, and atmosphere, the conditions of which affect the Earth's climate, environment and technology, as well as human health. This image depicts Ulysses - a joint space mission of ESA and NASA designed to explore the space environment, in particular the unknown region of space above the poles of the Sun. (Image Credit: ESA)