How to promote a sustainable future for fish production in Europe? This is the question at the heart of ActFast (Actions for Climate Transition by Developing Future Aquaculture Strategies and Technologies), a Horizon Europe project coordinated by the Department of Veterinary Medical Sciences at the University of Bologna. The project addresses the challenge by combining sustainable farming practices, environmental monitoring and Artificial Intelligence. A multidisciplinary team of 28 partners from 10 EU countries, plus Norway, Tunisia and Egypt, will collaborate to develop innovative strategies for future aquaculture. In this context, the Regional Ocean Forecasting Systems (ROFS) division will play a key role as work package leader, contributing substantially to the development of high-resolution climate projections and forecasting systems specifically for the aquaculture sector.

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AdaptationHubs is a project funded by Horizon Europe Coordination and Support action (HORIZON-MISS-2024-CLIMA-01-02). The main results of the project culminate in the establishment and implementation of 27 National Multilevel Governance Adaptation Hubs and a robust grouping and twinning scheme, which will facilitate national, cross-border and EU-wide exchanges and cooperations to strengthen integrated adaptation planning and policy making. Each National Adaptation Hub involves national experts, which are closely linked to their respective national adaptation governance, as well as key stakeholders, who will support engagement at all levels of governance in achievement of the objectives of the EU Mission on Climate Change Adaptation. The objective is to ensure long-lasting and self-sustainable National Multilevel Governance Adaptation Hubs (NAHs) across the EU.

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The AQUA project, aimed at enhancing resilience to climate change in the Adriatic-Ionian region, has the goal of reaching significant strides in addressing the common challenge of water management in the face of a changing climate. Rising temperatures, altered precipitation patterns, and extreme weather events have led to significant shifts in water availability, quality, and distribution. These challenges transcend borders and require collaborative efforts to ensure effective solutions. The AQUA project has set its sights on the overall objective of enhancing resilience to climate change of water utility companies in the Adriatic-Ionian area. By developing an joint action plan and strategy and user-tailored tools, the project aims to improve water resource management, increase capacities for climate change adaptation, and mitigate the impact of natural and man-made disasters. By adopting an integrated approach that considers both droughts and floods and the interconnections between water quantity and quality, the project aims to provide holistic solutions. The project also prioritizes data-driven solutions, co-design, and co-development, ensuring that the outputs are tailored to the specific needs of the participating regions.

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Technical and Scientific Support for the Development of Puglia’s Regional Climate Change Adaptation Strategy Science-based data and tools to support climate-resilient decisions in Puglia, down to the municipal scale. The collaboration between Fondazione Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici (CMCC) and Regione Puglia aims to develop the Regional Climate Change Adaptation Strategy (SRACC), a strategic framework to enhance territorial resilience against climate impacts. The partnership follows Puglia’s commitment as Territorial Coordinator of the Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy and builds upon regional policy efforts, including the Regional Sustainable Development Strategy (DGR 1670/2023) and preliminary adaptation guidelines (DGR 162/2024). The project integrates scientific rigor with participatory co-design, ensuring the strategy addresses local risks and vulnerabilities while aligning with national (PNACC) and European frameworks (EU Taxonomy, DNSH principle).

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Forest monitoring stands as a crucial endeavor for the well-being of our planet and human communities. The project, named ARtificial intelligence platform to prevent Climate change natural hazArds (ARCA), aims to address forest monitoring by developing an innovative system utilizing Artificial Intelligence (AI). The primary objective is to create a transnationally applicable platform through pilot initiatives in wooded areas, employing cutting-edge technologies to combat the risks posed by climate change-induced natural hazards. The project relies on advanced algorithms based on Machine Learning (ML) and diverse networks made of Internet of Things (IoT) sensors. These technological components work collaboratively to model specific forests and proactively mitigate the impact of natural hazards such as windstorms, drought, and wildfires. The digital platform comprises wireless sensor networks (WSNs), video cameras, drones, and LiDAR remote sensing, all contributing to a comprehensive forest modeling approach.

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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.

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ArchaeoSafe aims at protecting coastal and underwater archaeological heritage in the SA region from climate change risks, particularly marine hazards like coastal erosion. The project brings together partners from Italy, Albania, and Montenegro to develop advanced monitoring systems and risk management tools.

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ARTEMis will pave the way towards a new era of harmonised, standardised protocols, tools and procedures for emergency management and risk awareness in a pan-European level.

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The transitioning to a low-carbon society, as mandated by the Paris Agreement and net-zero targets, requires substantial investments. These decisions rely heavily on firms’ expectations, yet significant knowledge gaps exist: current models can’t fully assess their impact, empirical data is limited, and there’s little understanding of what drives their evolution and how to align them with climate goals. Misaligned expectations risk failure or disorderly decarbonisation. The BELIEFS project will lay the foundations of a novel analytical framework capable of shedding light on the complex interaction between firms’ beliefs, investment decision-making and climate policy strategies, so as to identify credible paths to a netzero society. The project will deliver a methodological breakthrough by developing a dynamic transition model with a realistic representation of expectations as heterogeneous, evolving and interdependent. A large survey will provide the first comprehensive empirical assessment of transition expectations and their influence on decisions. The results of the project will be pivotal in identifying effective policy and institutional strategies to ensure alignment of beliefs, thereby enabling a swift and orderly decarbonisation process. Over the course of five years, BELIEFS aims to offer pioneering interdisciplinary contributions to advance our understanding of the macro-behavioural dimensions of low-carbon transitions, integrating elements from climate economics, transition theory, behavioural sciences and political economy.

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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.

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BoMet-CLIM is a project funded by the Fondazione del Monte di Bologna e Ravenna, through which CMCC provides scientific and technical support to the Strategic Metropolitan Plan (PSM) of Bologna, with a specific focus on Mission 5 “Climate and Territory” and the broader objective of integrating climate change considerations across the Plan. The project combines a quantitative climate hazard assessment, based on the analysis of selected climate indicators for the metropolitan area, with an analysis of vulnerability and exposure developed through the review of relevant local documents and a targeted questionnaire aimed at capturing the perspectives of mayors and other relevant metropolitan stakeholders. These elements will feed into a semi-quantitative climate risk assessment aimed at identifying priorities, coherence gaps and enabling conditions for implementation. The project will support the drafting of Mission 5 as a high-level strategic guidance document, providing an evidence-based framework to orient future work towards a metropolitan Climate Plan. In this context, the project will also offer initial recommendations on the governance arrangements needed to support future adaptation planning and implementation.

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C-BLUES will significantly advance knowledge and understanding of blue carbon ecosystems (BCEs) seagrasses, tidal marshes, mangroves, macroalgae, and macroalgae mariculture aiming to achieve three overarching objectives: 1) develop new scientific knowledge within BCEs to reduce scientific uncertainty and improve reporting of blue carbon under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), 2) provide input to a possible revision of the 2013 IPCC Wetlands Supplement to increase inclusion of coastal wetlands in national greenhouse gas (GHG) inventories and reporting, 3) raise awareness and promote the role of blue carbon for delivering global climate policy commitments in collaboration with Chinese and other international partners.

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The project provides a complete technical solution for the production of monthly seasonal forecasts in real time according to a pre-established operational programme. The project also involves additional development activities to be carried out with the aim of improving the quality and range of the CMCC seasonal forecasting operational system. These complementary activities include : a new ensemble of extended (16 months) hindcasts and real-time forecasts. A portfolio of workflows, structured as Jupyter Notebooks will be produced, aiming at analyzing the capability of dynamical seasonal forecast ensembles to detect and predict Extreme Events, focusing on heatwaves and tropical cyclones. New land initial conditions will be implemented in the operational chain. The Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) supports society by providing authoritative information about the past, present and future climate in Europe and the rest of the World.

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The project responds to the C3S Invitation to Tender (ITT) Ref. C3S2_375: Development of C3S Decadal Prediction Service, which has been conceived as a continuation of the C3S service C3S_34c: Prototype system for decadal climate predictions (2019–2021). Even though C3S_34c amounted to significant progress in these direction, it did not cover all required steps towards operational implementation of multi-system decadal predictions and derived forecast products, e.g., leaving gaps in suitable data-encoding standards, the continuous provision of new forecasts and in rendering such forecasts directly usable through the application of state-of-the-art post-processing methods and the production of general and tailored products made available to the community on the CDS. The present contract C3S2_375_CMCC, aims at consolidating further progress towards these objectives. The Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) supports society by providing authoritative information about the past, present and future climate in Europe and the rest of the World.

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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

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