The MISSION project will eliminate bottlenecks of the overall maritime supply chain creating significant economic advantages for direct stakeholders and environmental benefits for society. By enabling collaboration among stakeholders and allowing ship schedules to be synchronised, ship operations and port services will be optimised, thus enhancing the efficiency of maritime operations and reducing the fuel consumption and GHG emissions. The project will demonstrate the benefits and challenges of MISSION specifically for three shipping segments, Tramp (bulk and tanker) RoRo, and container ship traffic, connecting ports in the European seas of Spain, Italy, Greece and Lithuania. MISSION’s port call optimisation and end-to-end orchestration of different traffic types will be built on data sharing platforms, with reference to harmonised standards and provide application programming interfaces for interoperability.

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MOIRAI, named after the three Greek goddesses of fate, is a pioneering project that integrates historical data, present observations, and future projections to enhance ocean and biogeochemical climate modeling across European seas. Aligned with the frameworks of Destination Earth (DE) and the Digital Twin of the Ocean (DTO), it aims to support the European Green Deal by improving climate resilience in coastal areas. Central to MOIRAI is the development of REASSHORE, a modular, interoperable hub designed to deliver actionable ocean risk and adaptation strategies for end-users.

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In the framework of the initiative launched by the Ministry of the Environment and Energy Security to promote the regional implementation of the National Strategy for Sustainable Development, the CMCC Foundation is providing the Molise region with technical assistance in localising the National Strategy for Sustainable Development (SNSvS) and the 2030 Agenda (localising the SDGs). This is in line with the national regulatory framework, as well as the European and international strategic frameworks.

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Il progetto NADIR è un’iniziativa di Citizen Science realizzata dal CMCC in collaborazione con il Circolo Legambiente Capo di Leuca APS. Nell’ambito del progetto, i partner intendono organizzare una serie di attività volte al coinvolgimento attivo della cittadinanza tra cui: escursioni in barca a vela, giornaliere, nel weekend e settimanali, per contribuire al monitoraggio degli ecosistemi costiero-marini e di variabili oceanografiche e atmosferiche; percorsi di Alternanza Scuola-Lavoro con le scuole del territorio, per lo sviluppo di competenze trasversali e l’orientamento degli studenti; attività di tagging (marcatura tramite sistemi GPS) delle tartarughe marine; esperienze pratiche a bordo in ambiti quali oceanografia operativa e sperimentale, ecologia marina e climatologia; progettazione, costruzione e utilizzo di strumenti per il monitoraggio marino. Le attività del progetto contribuiranno alle campagne di monitoraggio promosse dalla Jonian Dolphin Foundation, nonché ai servizi europei di EMODnet, CMEMS e al programma strategico di ricerca del CMCC “Global Coast as a New Frontier”.

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The ocean’s biodiversity supports the livelihoods of over three billion people, providing vital services, including food and nutrient cycling. However marine policy and resource management do not yet consider the latest scientific advances, even when the state-of- the-art operational models of the European Copernicus Marine Service (CMEMS) are used. The project’s objective is to enable CMEMS to deliver novel products that inform marine biodiversity conservation and food resources management, by fusing new data into innovative ecosystem models that integrate biological and abiotic components, habitats, and stressors of marine ecosystems. NECCTON will inter-link new models in the CMEMS systems, thus building novel capacities to simulate higher-trophic-levels, benthic habitats, pollutants, and deliver projections of climate change impacts. We will develop and exploit new data-processing chains, supporting CMEMS’ use of novel ecosystem observations, including new hyperspectral data from satellites, as well as available acoustic, pollution and omics data. We will fuse these new data and models by using innovative machine-learning algorithms to improve models and data assimilation methods. These developments will be applied in thirteen case studies, co-designed with fisheries and conservation managers as part of our pathway-to-impact, resulting in the demonstration of Technological Readiness Level 6 of NECCTON products. The project objectives will be achieved by a team of twenty-three world-class organizations with track records for all the key project components. It includes the CMEMS Entrusted Entity and core developers, who will promote the final uptake of NECCTON by CMEMS. On project completion, NECCTON will provide CMEMS with the scientific and technical

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NEWPATHWAYS is a project funded by the European Union’s Horizon Europe programme and the consortium consists of 13 partners, and brings together leading research groups to support climate policymaking within and outside the EU. These research groups are involved in modelling international climate policy, national policies, social science, policy analysis, environmental assessment, and stakeholder engagement.

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Global warming has exceeded 1.5°C as a result of anthropogenic fossil fuel emissions, making it clear that deep emission reductions will need to be complemented by large-scale Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) to meet the Paris Agreement targets. The ocean plays a central role in the global carbon cycle, storing more than 97% of the world’s dissolved inorganic carbon and having absorbed approximately 20–30% of anthropogenic CO₂ emissions over recent decades. Despite the importance of these processes, marine (m)CDR techniques remain less developed than terrestrial approaches. Among technology-based marine CDR options, Ocean Alkalinity Enhancement (OAE) has attracted particular attention in scientific, technological, and policy debates. However, significant uncertainties remain regarding its effectiveness, techno-economic feasibility, environmental impacts, and governance implications. OAeSIS aims to address these key gaps by advancing understanding of the socio-economic, governance, and impact dimensions of OAE, thereby supporting informed decision-making and future climate policy development. OAeSIS has been developed within the framework of the “Land, ocean and water for climate action” work programme and will be implemented in close alignment with related funded activities, in particular with its sister topic “Monitoring the global ocean for safe, verifiable, and sustainable marine carbon dioxide removal (mCDR)”.

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ObsSea4Clim brings together key European actors within ocean observing science, climate assessment, Earth System modelling, data sharing and standards, with users of oceanographic products and services to deliver an improved observation framework based on Essential Ocean & Climate Variables (EOV/ECVs).

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The Ocean plays a crucial role in the global C cycle, taking up approximately 25% of the CO2 we emit to the atmosphere, and thus slowing the rate of climate change. The future trajectory of this sink will affect the timing and intensity of the modifications to human processes that we need to undertake in order to stabilise atmospheric CO2 at 450ppm. Our ability to measure and model this sink is limited (evidenced by significant discrepancies between measured and modelled C uptake) with the current frontier area of research being a suite of biological processes related to higher trophic level behaviour within the so called biological C pump. This involvement of higher organisms suggests that human activities (fishing, energy and mineral extraction) has the capacity to affect the ocean C sink however we lack the ability to quantitatively link direct human pressures and ocean C storage. Ocean ICU will measure these key processes and evaluate their overall significance, transferring those that are important into models that inform the IPCC process and in this way contribute to resolving the observed model data mismatch of Ocean C sink estimates. We will use the fundamental knowledge we acquire around biological systems to evaluate the ability of human interventions in the ocean to alter the carbon cycle and produce management tools that allow the tension between resource extraction and C storage to be addressed. This component will involve extensive dialogue with end users and stakeholders and lead to a Decision Support Tool that will

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The overarching goal of the OFIDIA Plus proposal is to enhance understanding of knowledge, accessibility, and facilitation gaps that hinder the widespread adoption of sustainable fire prevention actions in the cross-border area. The project aims to develop and demonstrate innovative tools and solutions to support policymakers and all actors in the firefighting system, promoting behaviors that prioritize prevention and ecosystem protection. The project actions target the Italian regions of Puglia, Calabria, Basilicata (Matera province only), and the Greek region of Epirus, aiming to enhance environmental resilience and quality of life.

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The European Commission’s Directorate General for Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (DG ECHO), under the framework of the Union Civil Protection Mechanism (UCPM), supports countries and regions to review their disaster risk management (DRM) policies and practices by taking stock of strengths and areas for improvements and putting forward recommendations to increase resilience. The objective of the UCPM Peer review programme is to implement, over a period of 36 months a cycle of peer reviews targeting a maximum of six countries/regions wishing to have their disaster risk management/civil protection system reviewed. UCPM peer reviews promote an integrated approach to DRM by taking a comprehensive look at risk governance, risk assessment, risk management planning, and all stages of the disaster risk management cycle. The peer review process fosters policy dialogue and coherence, facilitates mutual learning and exchange of good practice, and steers progress in critical areas for the EU cooperation on civil protection and disaster risk management. CMCC will support DG ECHO in the implementation of the overall programme, both technically and logistically.

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PHAROS is an EU-funded project, led by the Canary Islands Ocean Platform (PLOCAN), and implemented by a consortium of 24 organizations, which aims to provide nature-based solutions for restoring ecosystems and biodiversity while tackling climate change and human impacts in the Atlantic and Arctic maritime regions. These goals align with the European Union’s ambitious Ocean Mission objectives. The PHAROS project aligns with the European Union’s Ocean Mission by focusing on protecting and restoring marine ecosystems and biodiversity, eliminating pollution, and achieving a sustainable, carbon-neutral, and circular blue economy by 2030.

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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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Climate change is a global challenge that severely impacts cultural heritage, nevertheless, cultural heritage can provide responses to and help limit the effects of climate change on society. The Partnership for Resilient Cultural Heritage will strengthen research on cultural heritage to develop and promote, through dissemination and capacity building activities, innovative solutions, assessment systems, adaptation and mitigation strategies and risk management models, for transmitting cultural heritage to future generations with the aim of making Europe more resilient and climate neutral.

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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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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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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.