Keeping agricultural, forest and aquatic ecosystems functions and services productive is a key issue for the future of the planet. AnaEE (Analysis and Experimentation on Ecosystems) aims to advance our understanding of the environmental impacts of ongoing global change and foster adaptation and mitigation strategies to safeguard ecosystem services and their concomitant economic and societal benefits. AnaEE brings together a series of state-of-the-art experimental and analytical installations for ecosystem research throughout Europe. AnaEE’s experimental approach combines Manipulation, Measurements, Modelling, and Management for Mitigation to study continental ecosystems. At the core is a network of distributed experimental facilities, where ecosystems are exposed to controlled, and manipulated, conditions. The results produced from our platforms inform predictive models and deliver realistic simulations of global change impacts. In AnaEE, the experimental approach is integrated with modelling to quantify and predict the impact of those current and future global change drivers on ecosystem functioning, to help unravel mechanisms and feedbacks involved in ecosystems’ responses, and to test mitigation and adaptation measure. The originality and added value compared to other international RIs rest with AnaEE’s versatile facilities that can simulate changes in environmental drivers ranging from land-use change, agricultural management practices and systems, pollution, biological invasions, rising atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations, to climatic changes, including extreme events such as droughts and heat waves. AnaEE has the potential to look into the future, thanks to the integrative and coordinated usage of its experimental, analytical and modelling facilities. AnaEE-ERIC provide services through four main types of installations: Open-air ecosystem platforms comprise the predominant land use types of European continental ecosystems spanning from managed agricultural to ‘unmanaged’, natural ecosystems including terrestrial aquatic ecosystems transecting Europe’s climatic zones from the subarctic to Mediterranean; Enclosed ecosystem platforms, complement open-air platforms by enabling a much higher level of environmental control and measurements on ecosystem processes. Analytical platforms offer advanced biological, physical and chemical and socio-economical analyses for a deeper insight into processes. Modelling platforms give access to existing, state of the art, numerical models and to advanced software facilities for model development (model factories) that will improve data analysis and synthesis and allow predictions of the responses of ecosystems to global changes. AnaEE accommodates experiments from users coming mostly from the academia (environmental and life sciences), as well as the industry (agriculture, forestry, management).