The ECOresearch Network presents and promotes interactive technologies for bringing together stakeholders of different disciplines and geographic regions to explore the design, implementation, management and evaluation of new media applications that advocate sustainability and the protection of natural ecosystems. Technology showcases such as the Media Watch on Climate Change and the US Election 2008 Web Monitor build upon the webLyzard media monitoring and Web intelligence platform, which is continually being extended and refined through research projects on natural language processing, information extraction, and semantic technologies.

As part of this active research collaboration between a number of Austrian and international partner organizations, the Media Watch on Climate Change is currently being transformed from a news and social media aggregator into a Climate Change Collaboratory with advanced support of real-time communication and collaboration among environmental stakeholders.