PRUDENT aspires to revolutionize agriculture and forestry by promoting sustainable practices and innovative farming technologies. The project will explore the use of “nudges”, small changes in how farmers and foresters make decisions, to encourage them to adopt more sustainable approaches. These nudges will be tested in real-life situations alongside policy changes to see their combined effect on sustainability. Innovative tools, like web or mobile apps, will be developed to help farmers and foresters regulate their actions and make lasting changes, supporting these behaviour changes. Different types of farming and forestry systems across Europe will be studied to understand their unique challenges. The insights gained from this research will create new ways of thinking about agriculture and forestry, including social innovations, business models, and policy recommendations.

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RAWS (Re-Analysis of Water for Society) aims to develop the first high-resolution global reanalysis of terrestrial water resources, reconstructing water availability and use over the past 60 years at approximately 1 km spatial resolution and daily time steps. The project combines a global hydrological model with satellite observations, climate datasets, and artificial intelligence–enhanced data assimilation to generate a consistent picture of the evolution of water systems worldwide. RAWS will integrate information on groundwater, water quality, crop growth, and human water use, with a focus on water scarcity hotspots. The project is part of the Schmidt Sciences VIEW programme and brings together leading research institutions to advance knowledge and tools for sustainable water management.

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Regional ocean Zooms for Extremes and impacts at Global and local scales (RaZorEGe) will develop and implement Earth System Models (ESMs) capable of robustly representing regional aspects of climate while remaining affordable for efficient global multi-centennial simulation. Projections of regional climate variability, change and extremes remain challenging to simulate with ESMs for a variety of reasons, including local process representation, errors in remote teleconnections and the inherently greater variability of regional climate requiring larger ensembles. For Europe, the representation of the Gulf Stream, the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation and the Mediterranean are all key uncertainties for future change, while other ocean boundary currents (the Kuroshio in the Pacific and the Antarctic Circumpolar Current in the Southern Ocean) are key for East Asian and South Africa respectively. We propose to achieve this improvement through targeted developments in ocean and sea-ice models, based on understanding the relationships between regional climate indices and ocean/sea-ice model biases. We will use a range of techniques, including regional changes in horizontal and vertical resolution, as well as new parameterisations. One key aspect of the targeted nature of the developments will be to keep the model efficient enough to be affordable with Earth System complexity included, hence trying to bring together improved physical and biogeochemical processes. Once demonstrated, these enhancements will be implemented in ESMs and simulations performed that will contribute to the next Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP7) and next IPCC. The limited cost increase, and targeted process improvements will mean that these enhancements should also

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The RE-CONNECT project is dedicated to assisting the 196 Parties committed to the 2015 Paris Agreement, established under the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, in meeting their climate change obligations.

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The RECIPE project highlights crucial strategic options for Europe’s climate and energy policy at two different scales. Firstly, it informs the relevant stakeholders about the most important barriers to implementation in the European power and heat, industry, transport and agriculture sectors. Secondly, it highlights Europe’s main strategic options in the international arena.

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RENOVATE è un progetto sperimentale innovativo che ha come obiettivo principale il ripristino delle funzioni e dei servizi ecosistemici marini compromessi dalle attività antropiche costiere e dai cambiamenti climatici. Il progetto si focalizza sull’habitat prioritario 1120* (praterie di Posidonia oceanica), su alcune biocenosi dell’habitat 1170, e su due specie di elevata rilevanza naturalistica ed ecologica: il Corallium rubrum e la Pinna nobilis. RENOVATE è il più ambizioso progetto di “marine habitat restoration” realizzato in Italia e probabilmente in Europa, prevedendo una serie di interventi basati su un approccio innovativo, olistico, volto al conseguimento degli obiettivi di ripristino della funzionalità di habitat e specie nel medio/lungo termine, in un orizzonte temporale decennale. Elemento centrale del progetto è la creazione di un sistema avanzato di osservazione e modellizzazione, operativo su scale regionale e costiera. Questo sistema integra il monitoraggio tradizionale con tecnologie innovative come veicoli autonomi subacquei, stazioni fisse, sensori, iniziative di citizen science e telerilevamento. Il network implementato consente lo sviluppo di un prototipo di “Digital Twin of the Ocean” in grado di: – guidare la pianificazione degli interventi di ripristino e delle azioni di conservazione; – costruire sistemi di early warning per eventi estremi e pressioni climatiche e antropiche; – supportare la scelta delle soluzioni e consentire un monitoraggio solido e a lungo termine del recupero dei servizi ecosistemici. RENOVATE è un progetto che andrà a rappresentare lo stato dell’arte in termini di innovazione scientifica e tecnologica e pone quindi in posizione centrale l’applicazione dei più moderni criteri scientifici utilizzati

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The RESCUE project will improve knowledge and understanding on the “Climate and Earth System responses to climate neutrality and net negative emissions”, by pursuing two overall objectives: 1) Quantify the climate and Earth system responses to pathways achieving climate neutrality by Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) deployment with and without temperature overshoot, and 2) Assess the potential role of CDR in reducing net GHG emissions, as well as its potential environmental risks and co-benefits.

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Data and AI are the fuel of scientific discoveries, and Research Infrastructures (RIs) are at the forefront of this process, generating massive and increasingly more complex datasets. However, the growing size, diversity, and velocity of research data and software demand large-scale infrastructures and technical expertise from those on the user side. RI-SCALE will address this challenge by delivering Data Exploitation Platforms (DEPs). These scalable environments will co-host scientific data with preconfigured AI frameworks and models on powerful compute resources and unlock full data and AI potential for scientific users, RI operators and industry. RI-SCALE will design and develop the DEP technology with four RIs: ENES, EISCAT, BBMRI and Euro-BioImaging. DEP instances will be deployed for environmental and life sciences, validating the technology through 8 scientific and 4 technical use cases. These will run on national e-infrastructures from the EGI Federation and (pre)exascale machines from EuroHPC. RI-SCALE will collaborate with Destination Earth, EUCAIM cancer images data space, Copernicus Data Space Ecosystem, EOSC and Gaia-X to ensure interoperability within the broader landscape. The project will also facilitate industry and university collaborations, provide training and consultancy events to increase the uptake of AI technologies by additional RIs and explore sustainable DEP operation models for RI communities.

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The project RISES-AM addresses the economy-wide impacts of coastal systems to various types of high-end climatic scenarios (including marine and riverine variables).

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The Risk4Insurance-CC project aims to co-develop, test, and validate operational tools for assessing risk relevant to the insurance sector in the context of climate change.

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Delivering validated climate services for resilient European Sea on a decadal to multi-decadal horizon is a challenge. RIVIERADE brings together the scientific communities geared into CORDEX and the Copernicus Marine Service and capitalizes on their unique scientific experience to develop and implement a pre-operational and replicable multi-model framework and protocols to produce, downscale, assess and deliver state-of-the-art decadal predictions and multi-decadal projections of climate change and related impacts on marine ecosystems, covering the basin scale and the coastal areas, up to, and including, development and demonstration of climate services. RIVIERADE will target three European Seas (Baltic, Black, Mediterranean), to produce data and information for ocean health, sustainable blue economy, and coastal climate risks, down streaming the data flow from climate ensembles to coastal areas at different spatial resolutions and for selected areas, in a circular process based on users and stakeholders engagement, co-design and assessment of innovative climate services.

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Rome Climate Change Adaptation: Monitoraggio e Strumenti per l’Adattamento is a technical-scientific collaboration initiative between the CMCC Foundation and Roma Capitale, aimed at co-developing research tools to support the Comune di Roma in tackling the challenge of climate change adaptation. In line with the recent Adaptation Strategy (https://www.comune.roma.it/web-resources/cms/documents/Strategia-adattamento-climatico.pdf) approved by the Comune di Roma in January 2025, these tools will transform heterogeneous meteorological and climate data into clear, accessible, and useful information for various stakeholders. The results will provide a solid and reliable foundation for planning future climate adaptation interventions by the Comune di Roma and other involved entities.

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The RoSE project bring together leading energy-economy researchers from Europe and the US to perform a coordinated, model-based analysis in order to reach robust conclusions about the economics of climate policy.

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The project will develop instruments for the evaluation and management of the risks caused by local, regional and European landslides in order to mitigate the damages and evaluate the areas with more risk by considering the ongoing climate change.