Progetti di ricerca

2D4D – Disruptive Digitalization for Decarbonization

Digitalization will fundamentally change all sectors of the European economy in the next decades. At the same time, the EU is committed to reaching net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. These two transformation will undoubtedly affect each other, but the extent to which they will be mutually supporting is currently unknown. Most importantly, there is a danger that the digital transformation will delay the progress towards a net-zero carbon economy. The EU-funded 2D4D project aims at ensuring that the digital transformation is not a barrier to decarbonisation, rather an enabler. The project will identify and measure the decarbonisation consequences of three disruptive digitalisation technologies in hard-to-decarbonise sectors: additive manufacturing in industry, mobility-as-a-service in transportation, and AI in buildings. The project will produce a distinctive data collection to examine the technical and socioeconomic potential of these technologies, enhance decarbonisation narratives and ensure that digital technology supports energy transition.


ACCREU – Assessing Climate Change Risk in EUrope

ACCREU is a project funded by HORIZON Europe RIA (Research and Innovation Action) investigating, in a fully integrated framework, climate change impacts, mitigation, adaptation and prospects for a sustainable social and economic development in the EU. ACCREU will  identify challenges, highlight opportunities and deliver practical solutions to policy making and societal actors at the EU, EU Member State, region and community level to accelerate a just societal transformation towards climate resilience in the short, medium and long term.  


ACQUAOUNT – Adapting to Climate change by QUantifying optimal Allocation of water resOUrces and socio-ecoNomic inTerlinkages

Agriculture is by far the most water demanding sector in the Mediterranean and a sustainable use of water, combined with economic growth, cannot be achieved without improving irrigation efficiency and water productivity. The current heavy depletion of water sources is leading to water scarcity and degradation, deterioration of ecosystem services, conflicts with domestic and industrial uses and, in general, it poses limitations to economic growth. These trends will be exacerbated by CC. The ACQUAOUNT project aims to improve IWRM and sustainable irrigation through the deployment of innovative tools, smart water services and solutions, for public and private use, while contributing to climate resilience.


AdJUST – ADVANCING THE UNDERSTANDING OF CHALLENGES, POLICY OPTIONS AND MEASURES TO ACHIEVE A JUST EU ENERGY TRANSITION

AdJUST is a project funded by the European Union’s Horizon Europe programme. and carried out by a transdisciplinary European consortium consisting of 9 EU partners, 2 UK associated partners and other 11 EU associated partners. The objectives of AdJUST are to achieve a step change in societal understanding of the distributive repercussions of the transition to climate neutrality, and to identify effective and actively-supported policy interventions to accompany climate action so that no-one is left behind.


AEROBO: Analisi delle vulnerabilità e dei rischi derivanti dagli impatti del cambiamento climatico sull’aeroporto Guglielmo Marconi di Bologna S.p.A.

L’intensificarsi degli eventi estremi dovuti ai cambiamenti climatici pone un rischio elevato per le infrastrutture, compresi gli aeroporti. A causa della loro vulnerabilità alle condizioni meteorologiche avverse, essi sono particolarmente esposti alle potenziali conseguenze del cambiamento climatico. Emerge, dunque, la necessità di sviluppare, accanto alle strategie di mitigazione, delle misure di adattamento ad hoc che rendano tali infrastrutture più resilienti a un clima non più stazionario. In tale contesto, si va a collocare il progetto di ricerca che ha come scopo l’elaborazione di un’analisi del rischio volta a individuare gli elementi dell’aeroporto più vulnerabili ai pericoli climatici (presenti e/o attesi) e a supportare l’identificazione di specifiche misure di adattamento per i vari asset individuati, al fine di renderli più resilienti al cambiamento climatico. Secondo la definizione riportata nel sesto report dell’IPCC, il rischio sarà calcolato in funzione di tre fattori specifici: pericolosità, esposizione e vulnerabilità. 


AGILE: AGnostic risk management for high Impact Low probability Events

AGILE is a project funded by HORIZON RIA (Research and Innovation Action) aiming at designing, developing and applying a holistic methodological framework and practical tools for understanding, assessing, managing and communicating High Impact Low Probability (HILP) events with a systemic risk and resilience perspective. 


AGORA – A Gathering place to cO-design and co-cReate Adaptation

AGORA sosterrà gli obiettivi generali della Missione sull’adattamento ai cambiamenti climatici valorizzando e promuovendo le migliori pratiche, gli approcci innovativi, gli strumenti politici e i meccanismi di governance per coinvolgere in modo significativo ed efficace le comunità e le regioni nelle azioni per il clima, accelerando e aumentando il processo di adattamento per costruire un’Europa resiliente ai cambiamenti climatici. Il progetto promuoverà la democrazia, la giustizia climatica, l’uguaglianza di genere e l’equità, e favorirà la capacità di adattamento e il rafforzamento dei cittadini per sostenere in modo proattivo i processi decisionali.


AGRITECH – National Research Centre for Agricultural Technologies

Il Centro Nazionale per lo Sviluppo di Nuove Tecnologie in Agricoltura (Agritech) si basa sull’utilizzo di tecnologie abilitanti per lo sviluppo sostenibile delle produzioni agroalimentari, con l’obiettivo di promuovere l’adattamento ai cambiamenti climatici, riducendo l’impatto ambientale nel settore agroalimentare , lo sviluppo delle aree marginali e garantire la sicurezza, la tracciabilità e la sicurezza delle filiere. Il progetto vale circa 350 milioni di euro, di cui 320 a carico del PNRR e coinvolge 28 università, 5 centri di ricerca e 18 aziende. Il Centro è strutturato in Hub&Spoke, con l’Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II responsabile dell’hub nazionale e 9 diversi spoke nelle aree tematiche: 1. Risorse genetiche vegetali, animali e microbiche e adattamento ai cambiamenti climatici 2. Crop Health: un approccio di sistema multidisciplinare per ridurre l’uso di prodotti agrochimici 3. Tecnologie abilitanti e strategie sostenibili per la gestione intelligente dei sistemi agricoli e del loro impatto ambientale 4. Sistemi agricoli e forestali multifunzionali e resilienti per la mitigazione dei rischi legati al cambiamento climatico 5. Produttività sostenibile e mitigazione dell’impatto ambientale nei sistemi zootecnici 6. Modelli di gestione per promuovere la sostenibilità e la resilienza dei sistemi agricoli 7. Modelli integrati per lo sviluppo delle aree marginali per promuovere sistemi di produzione multifunzionali che migliorino la sostenibilità agroecologica e socio-economica 8. Nuovi modelli di economia circolare in agricoltura attraverso la valorizzazione e il riciclo dei rifiuti 9. Nuove tecnologie e metodologie di tracciabilità, qualità, sicurezza, misurazioni e certificazioni per valorizzare e tutelare le tipicità nelle filiere agroalimentari.


AI-GCM | The AI General Circulation Model

La capacità di effettuare previsioni sul breve termine è essenziale per vari settori, come l’agricoltura, i trasporti e l’energia, solo per citarne alcuni. Negli ultimi anni, le tecniche di deep learning (DL) hanno mostrato risultati promettenti nelle previsioni meteorologiche. Grazie alla disponibilità di nuovi dataset, quali quelli prodotti nell’ambito dei progetti MISTRAL (https://www.cineca.it/index.php/news/mistral-portale ) e HIGHLANDER (https://www.cineca.it/index.php/progetti/highlander ), il presente progetto vuole valutarne il potenziale per lo sviluppo di previsioni accurate su regioni target.


ARCADIA: TrAnsformative climate ResilienCe by nAture-baseD solutions in the continental bio-geographical region

ARCADIA is a project funded by HORIZON Europe Innovation Actions in response to the call “Testing and demonstrating transformative solutions on climate resilience, mainstreaming nature based solutions in the systemic transformation”. The main goal of ARCADIA project is to mobilise 8 European regions and communities – from Italy, Croatia, Austria, Denmark, Sweden, Bulgaria, Romania and Slovenia – to accelerate nature-based solutions (NBS) adoption and assist them in accessing up-to-date, evidence-based actionable knowledge, guidance, knowledge-intense tools and services, mutual learning and networking opportunities.  


AtlantECO – Atlantic ECOsystems assessment, forecasting & sustainability

The EU-funded AtlantECO project aims to develop and apply a novel, unifying framework that provides knowledge-based resources for a better understanding and management of the Atlantic Ocean and its ecosystem services. AtlantECO will engage with citizens and actors from the industry and policy sectors in order to stimulate responsible behaviour and Blue Growth. The project focuses on three pillars of research: microbiomes, plastic and the plastisphere, and seascape connectivity. In pursuit of this goal, AtlantECO is bringing together experts and pioneers from Europe, South America and South Africa with the relevant resources, knowledge and experience.


AVENGERS: ATTRIBUTING AND VERIFYING EUROPEAN AND NATIONAL GREENHOUSE GAS AND AEROSOL EMISSIONS AND RECONCILIATION WITH STATISTICAL BOTTOM UP ESTIMATES

The Attributing and Verifying European and National Greenhouse gas and aerosol Emissions and Reconciliation with Statistical bottomup estimates – AVENGERS consortium unites a diverse group of experts “to establish how top-down techniques can support the verification of national greenhouse gas (GHG) inventories and other regulated estimates of emissions and removals, in order to improve or supplement the methods/approaches currently used”.


BIOservicES: LINKING SOIL BIODIVERSITY AND ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONS AND SERVICES IN DIFFERENT LAND USES: FROM THE IDENTIFICATION OF DRIVERS, PRESSURES AND CLIMATE CHANGE RESILIENCE TO THEIR ECONOMIC VALUATION

The main objective of BIOservicES is to understand the interconnection between soil organisms and the delivery of multiple soil ecosystem functions and services at different scales (field vs landscape), identifying the pressures and drivers resulting from different land uses and climate change, and performing an economic valuation of the contribution of soil organisms to ecosystem services.


Blue-Cloud 2026 | A federated European FAIR and Open Research Ecosystem for oceans, seas, coastal and inland waters

The Blue-Cloud 2026 project builds on the existing pilot Blue-Cloud project (Oct 2019 – Sep 2022) and it evolves its pilot Blue-Cloud ecosystem into a federated European Ecosystem to deliver FAIR and Open Data and analytical services instrumental for deepening research of oceans, the EU sea, coastal and inland waters. It develops a thematic marine extension to European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) for accessible web-based science, serving the needs of the EU Blue Economy, Marine Environment and Marine Knowledge agendas. 


Blue4All – Blueprint demonstration for co-created effective, efficient and resilient networks of MPAs

There is an urgent need to strengthen marine conservation and restoration globally. One of the key measures to achieve this is to ensure that enough sea area is protected in effective ways. This requires designation of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) in different marine habitats. According to the EU Biodiversity Strategy 2030, 30% of Europe’s sea and land areas should be under strict protection. 


BlueGreen Governance

BlueGreen Governance is a project funded by HORIZON Europe Research and Innovation Actions in response to the call “Innovative governance, environmental observations and digital solutions in support of the Green Deal”. The project pursues an innovative approach to the governance of the seas and coastal areas that links marine policies with the management of the land and waters impacting on sea basins. More precisely, BlueGreen Governance will develop evidence-based pathways for the design and implementation of innovative governance schemes around the land-sea connection that incorporates both the scientific predictions of future developments (about the biodiversity-water-climate nexus) and societal views on the most viable policy responses.


C3S2_413 – Enhanced Operational Windstorm Service

This contract presents a continuation, a temporal extension, and an enhancement of the current C3S Windstorm Service. Leveraging the current Service structure, contractorss will temporally extend the detection and tracking of Pan-European potentially harmful windstorms associated with extratropical cyclones along the whole available period provided by the ECMWF ERA5 reanalysis dataset (1940-present).


CAPABLE – ClimAte Policy AcceptaBiLity Economic framework

CAPABLE is a project funded by the European Union’s Horizon Europe programme. and carried out by a transdisciplinary European consortium consisting of 10 partner institutions and universities across Europe and is coordinated by the Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change (CMCC). CAPABLE will provide robust, resilient and actionable recommendations for the design of socially and economically acceptable climate policy measures for 2030 and beyond


CARMINE: Climate-Resilient Development Pathways in Metropolitan Regions of Europe

La frequenza e l’intensità degli estremi climatici e meteorologici associati al cambiamento climatico antropogenico stanno aumentando e ci porranno delle sfide relative alle strategie di adattamento a livello locale. Il progetto “Percorsi di Sviluppo Resiliente al Clima nelle Regioni Metropolitane d’Europa (CARMINE)” collega la scale locale e regionale fornendo servizi decisionali basati sugli impatti e governance climatiche multilivello che supportano l’adattamento locale, inclusi sia approcci NBs. L’obiettivo generale di CARMINE è aiutare le comunità metropolitane d’Europa a diventare più resilienti al clima, mediante la co-produzione di strumenti basati sulla conoscenza, strategie e piani per azioni di adattamento e mitigazione migliorate, in linea con la Carta della Missione dell’UE sull’Adattamento al Cambiamento Climatico entro il 2030. Per raggiungere questo obiettivo, focalizzandosi sul periodo 2030-2035 e con prospettive più lunghe fino al 2050, CARMINE propone un approccio interdisciplinare mirante a (1) co-creare e co-sviluppare servizi decisionali e linee guida per una resilienza e capacità di adattamento migliorate, inclusi sistemi di allerta precoce e gestione del rischio da disastri; (2) collaborare strettamente con comunità locali e regionali (stakeholder e utenti), decisori e policy-maker (autorità locali) per co-sviluppare quadri trasversali per azioni di adattamento e mitigazione; (3) fornire roadmap R&I basate sulla scienza per la governance climatica multilivello a supporto di valutazioni e piani di adattamento locali. La metodologia di CARMINE sarà implementata in otto Aree Studio selezionate per dimostrare la prova di concetto e la metodologia del progetto attraverso la replicazione digitale delle caratteristiche climatiche e socio-economiche di ciascuna area. La conoscenza co-creata


CERISE: CopERnIcus climate change Service Evolution

The Copernicus Climate Change Service Evolution (CERISE) project aims to enhance the quality of the C3S reanalysis and seasonal forecast portfolio, with a focus on land-atmosphere coupling. It will support the evolution of C3S by improving the C3S climate reanalysis and seasonal prediction systems and products towards enhanced integrity and coherence of the C3S Earth system Essential Climate Variables. 


CircEUlar – Developing circular pathways for a EU low-carbon transition

CircEUlar is a project funded by the European Union’s Horizon Europe programme and carried out by a consortium of 10 European organisations. The CircEUlar project aims to understand the dynamics and levers for societal transformation towards a net-zero emission circular economy. The project will address circularity through three main levers: 1) societal transformation to limit material stock growth through dematerialisation, material efficiency, and a transition to a service-based economy; 2) product lifetime extension through repair, maintenance, resale, reuse, and repurposing of obsolete fossil infrastructures; 3) waste reduction management through collection and treatment systems that optimise reuse and recycling. The project considers three focus areas for deep-dive empirical and modelling analysis, integrated into economy-wide modelling frameworks and pathways assessment: digitalisation, mobility and buildings and household services.


CircoMod: Circular Economy Modelling for Climate Change Mitigation

CircoMod is a project funded by the European Union’s Horizon Europe Framework Programme and carried out by a consortium of 12 European organizations. The project aims at developing a new generation of advanced models and scenarios that will assess how CE can reduce future GHGs and material use. The project brings together a unique consortium of leading research teams from different disciplines, including industrial ecology and material flow modelling, process-oriented integrated assessment modelling, and macro-economic modelling.  It aims for a breakthrough in integrating CE and GHG mitigation assessments by developing an analytical framework that maps circular economy strategies to existing influential climate scenarios; by providing robust and timely CE data in an open repository; and, by improving the representation of the CE in leading models used by European and global institutions, while strengthening links between the models. These key scientific breakthroughs enable robust scientific assessments in collaboration with stakeholders across policy and industry. 


CLIMAAX – CLIMAte risk and vulnerability Assessment framework and toolboX

CLIMAAX responds to the call HORIZON-MISS-2021-CLIMA-02-01 by providing financial, analytical and practical support to European regions, allowing an improvement of regional climate and emergency risk management plans. It is designed to significantly contribute to the harmonization and consolidation of the practice of climate risk assessment, leaving a substantial legacy for upcoming European initiatives.

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