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

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.

AQUA: Enhancing Water Management for Climate Change Resilience in Adriatic-Ionian area

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.

bePrepARed: Preparing, Adapting, Reconstructing: actions to promote climate change adaptation and risk disaster resilience in Italian and Croatian sensitive ecosystems

Nel quadro degli impatti legati ai cambiamenti climatici, la gestione delle riserve idriche è fondamentale per affrontare e mitigare fenomeni estremi che determinano una sovrabbondanza o scarsità di acqua, con impatti sui sistemi produttivi locali, sul benessere dei cittadini e sulla gestione del territorio. Per affrontare questa sfida, il progetto BePrePAred mira a coordinare e integrare strumenti, sistemi e politiche di gestione del rischio volti a migliorare la resilienza degli ecosistemi e dei paesaggi vulnerabili, storicamente gestiti dall’uomo, su entrambe le sponde del Mare Adriatico, con particolare attenzione alla gestione delle acque. Si tratta di creare nuove competenze e pratiche per una governance dell’acqua basata sugli ecosistemi, trasferendo strumenti e politiche nelle aree target presenti in Italia e Croazia, adattandoli a un uso sostenibile delle risorse idriche nei paesaggi rurali-urbani, sensibilizzando le istituzioni e la società civile sui rischi legati alla scarsità idrica e sulla necessità di politiche di risparmio e gestione della risorsa acqua.

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

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.

CLIMATEFIT – Resilient CLIMATE Financing and Investment Taskforces

Urgent accelerated action is required to adapt to unavoidable and ongoing climate change. Climate-resilient investments must be substantially scaled up. Public budgets will not be able to address the adaptation financing challenge alone, financing from the private sector will also be necessary. CLIMATEFIT contributes to bridging the resilience financing gap by providing critical insight and building the capacities of Public Authorities (PAs) to attract and orchestrate various public and private funding & financing sources, and of Financing and Investment Entities (FIEs) to discover and access resilient investment opportunities.

Climateurope2 – Supporting and standardizing climate services in Europe and beyond

Climateurope2 aims to develop future equitable and quality-assured climate services to all sectors of society by: a) developing standardisation procedures for climate services; b) Supporting an equitable European climate services community; and c) Enhancing the uptake of quality-assured climate services to support adaptation and mitigation to climate change and variability. The project will identify the support and standardisation needs of climate services, including criteria for certification and labelling, as well as the user-driven criteria needed to support climate action. This information will be used to propose a taxonomy of climate services, suggest community-based good practices and guidelines, and propose standards where possible. A large variety of activities to support the communities involved in European climate services will also be organised.

GANANA: Europe-India Partnership for Scientific High-Performance Computing

High-Performance Computing (HPC) is a major enabler of progress in many domains of science, including UN Sustainable Development goals towards improving population health and climate action. HPC is driving breakthroughs in genomics, drug discovery, and personalized medicine, as well as geophysical hazard simulations, improving preparedness for disasters like earthquakes and tsunamis, and supports weather and climate predictions. Europe is among the world leaders in HPC and with initiatives such as EuroHPC JU is advancing the usage of exascale computer systems for research. India is expanding its HPC capabilities through the National Supercomputing Mission, focusing on indigenous technology and fostering academic, industrial, and governmental collaborations. Combining Europe’s advanced infrastructure with India’s growing expertise offers opportunities for innovation in those strategic areas of climate modeling, disaster management, and healthcare. Shared resources and expertise can enhance predictive models, accelerate responses to pandemics, and foster technological and economic growth. The GANANA project is establishing a long-term partnership collaboration by uniting European HPC centers of excellence (BioExcel, ChEESE, ESiWACE3) and Indian institutions (C-DAC, IMD, ISR, NII, AIRAWAT) with the objectives to: • Strengthen the links between research communities in the priority domains by supporting existing and establishing new collaborative activities. • Setup and operate a range of activities in support of expertise exchange, capacity building and sharing of computing resources. • Develop selected leading software packages by extending their functionality, optimise HPC performance and scalability, deploy on target architectures, improve usability and data integration. • Expand the outreach, broaden the participation of external collaborators and

IRIDE Lot 1

The IRIDE program is an innovative project undertaken by the Italian government in collaboration with the European Space Agency (ESA) to leverage resources from the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR). Phase 2 of IRIDE Lot 1 started in October 2024 following the successful implementation of the IRIDE Precursor Phase. The main purpose of the project is to deliver an operational portfolio of geospatial services and develop digital tools for End and Pilot users within the Thematic Services S1-Coastal and Marine Monitoring, S2- Air Quality, S5- Hydro-Meteorological-Climate, S6- WaterManagement. The operational services allow mapping, monitoring and forecasting of various characteristics of coastal areas (including geomorphological, land use, flooding, habitats etc.) as well as operational model validation, operational air quality monitoring and forecast, pollutant emissions monitoring and assessment, re-analysis of air quality at national scale, hydro-meterological mapping and monitoring atmospheric structure, greenhouse gases and others essential climate variables monitoring, lightening monitoring, flood forecasting and sediment management, etc.

LIFE21-IPC-IT-LIFE CLIMAX PO | CLIMate Adaptation for the PO river basin district

CLIMAX PO is a project funded by a LIFE grant of the European Commission. CLIMAX PO brings together most national and regional and some of the local authorities playing a role in implementing the Italian strategy on adaptation in the Po River Basin, an area of 74.000 km2 , with 3.200 local authorities, 16 million inhabitant and generating 40% of the Italian GDP.  CLIMAX PO is led by the National Po River Basin District Authority (ADBPO) chaired directly by the Italian Minister for the Environment and responsible for the implementation of the NAS at district level. The consortium covers the whole geographical river basin, all levels of Governance (National, Regional, Local) and necessary competences with 3 major research institutes on board.            

LIQUIDICE: LinkIng and QUantifying the Impacts of climate change on inlanD ICE, snow cover, and permafrost on water resources and society in vulnerable regions

Recognizing the central role played by snow, ice and permafrost in the global climate system, the LIQUIDICE project joins expert cryospheric observers and modelers to: i) comprehensively re-assess the past and future century-plus of climate-induced high impact changes to the Greenland ice sheet and climate vulnerable locations across the Alps, Norway, High Mountain Asia (HMA) and Svalbard, including permafrost areas and their ecosystems; ii) develop new, expanded and harmonized data from satellite Earth Observation (EO) and ground stations; iii) use these data to improve and test a hierarchy of ice sheet and glacier models with Earth System Models (ESMs); iv) through these steps, yield new process understanding, and ultimately v) inform water resource, hydropower, and socio-economic strategies through clear and transparent communication of results and uncertainties. The project’s strengths lie in new multidisciplinary collaborations across 18 research institutions, from eight European countries (Poland, Italy, Denmark, Germany, Spain, Sweden, Norway, United Kingdom) and India, encompassing expertise in field observations, satellite EO techniques, ESM development and application, and socio-economic analysis. Key deliverables include a) FAIR-principled new multi-decade data catalogues of multi-regional snow water equivalent and a 44-year EO-derived albedo record; b) assessments of impact of model resolution and degree of coupling on results; c) refined past and future glacier, ice cap and Greenland ice sheet freshwater fluxes to oceans and global sea level rise with indirect constraint on Antarctica; d) new hydrological simulations for HMA; e) a new framework for a Water Discharge Impact Assessments; f) socio-economic integrated risk and adaptation assessments;

MED-IREN: Mediterranean critical Infrastructure Resilience Engineering with Nature based solutions (MED-IREN)

The Med-IREN project is strategically designed to demonstrate actionable solutions for climate-proofing critical infrastructures across the Mediterranean, with a particular focus on enhancing resilience through Nature-Based Solutions (NBS). These solutions will be applied to improve climate risk management and ensure business continuity in the face of extreme climate change. The project will be implemented in five key lighthouse regions across the Mediterranean (Granollers, PACA, Ischia, Tuscany, Egaleo), each addressing a specific, present-day challenge. These regions will align with regional policies, further contributing to the EU’s position as a global leader in climate resilience. Moreover, the project will leverage Dataclime, CMCC’s advanced climate service platform, to provide cutting-edge data and analytics for real-time monitoring and risk assessment, ensuring that the project’s impact is grounded in the most up-to-date scientific evidence and fostering actionable insights for stakeholders

MULTICLIMACT: MULTI-faceted CLIMate adaptation ACTions per migliorare la resilienza, la preparazione e la capacità di risposta dell’ambiente costruito a fronte di molteplici pericoli su più scale

Il progetto europeo MULTICLIMACT è stato finanziato nell’ambito del tema HORIZON-CL5-2022-D4-02-01. Questo progetto mira a migliorare la resilienza dell’ambiente costruito e dei suoi abitanti di fronte al cambiamento delle condizioni climatiche e all’aumento degli eventi estremi. MULTICLIMACT vuole realizzare un quadro di riferimento completo e un kit di strumenti per valutare e rafforzare la resilienza a varie scale, considerando sia i rischi naturali che le vulnerabilità della catena di approvvigionamento.

NEVERMORE: New Enabling Visions and tools for End-useRs and stakeholders thanks to a common MOdeling appRoach towards a climatE neutral and resilient society

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report on Climate Change 2021 is a “code red for humanity” according to the UN Secretary-General. It is thus essential to work on a climate resilient society. This entails both climate neutrality and mitigation of those impacts of climate change that are making themselves felt already. The COVID-19 pandemic has further highlighted the importance of improved translations of scientific insights into policy and social practice.

PNC Clima – PIANO NAZIONALE PER GLI INVESTIMENTI COMPLEMENTARI (PNC), E.1 SALUTE, AMBIENTE, BIODIVERSITA E CLIMA

Il progetto propone un approccio multidisciplinare che coinvolge diverse strutture afferenti al Sistema Nazionale per la Protezione dell’Ambiente (SNPA) e al Sistema Nazionale Prevenzione Salute dei Rischi ambientali e climatici (SNPS) di 5 regioni (Piemonte, Emilia-Romagna, Lazio, Puglia e Sicilia), oltre ad esperti scientifici del settore sanità, meteo-clima e qualità dell’aria nazionali, esperti di comunicazione, associazioni di cittadinanza attiva. Questo allo scopo di realizzare l’obiettivo generale di accelerare l’adattamento e la mitigazione dei cambiamenti climatici nelle aree urbane, con focus sul verde urbano e sulla mobilità sostenibile e di aumentare la conoscenza e la consapevolezza e promuovere un cambiamento negli stili di vita nei cittadini e le politiche associate ai maggiori co-benefici diretti e indiretti a tutti i livelli: cittadini, policy makers, scuole, operatori SNPA e SNPS. Saranno promosse misure evidence-based a partire dalle best practice di piani, politiche e interventi in ambito nazionale e internazionale con focus su trasporto sostenibile e di contrasto all’isola di calore urbano e alle elevate temperature. Uno specifico focus sarà dedicato ai fattori di vulnerabilità (fragilità clinica e vulnerabilità sociale) e alle misure di adattamento associate all’equità sociale. 

Rome Climate Change Adaptation: Monitoraggio e Strumenti per l’Adattamento

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.

SDGs-EYES – Sustainable Development Goals – Enhanced monitoring through the family of copErnicus Services

The UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is a data driven agenda, and the use of Earth Observation (EO) can make the SDG indicators’ monitoring and reporting technically and financially viable, and comparable across countries.  SDGs-EYES aims to boost the European capacity for monitoring the SDGs based on Copernicus, building a portfolio of decision-making tools to monitor those SDG indicators related to the environment from an inter-sectoral perspective, aligning with the EU Green Deal priorities and challenges. SDGs-EYES will establish an integrated scientific, technological and user engagement framework overcoming the knowledge and technical barriers that prevent the exploitation, combination and cross-feeding of data and tools from the Copernicus’s six core Services, its space-based and in-situ components, and other platforms and portals.  SDGs-EYES considers three interconnected SDGs, on climate (SDG13), ocean (SDG14) and land (SDG15), to demonstrate through four Pilots the Copernicus potential for monitoring six indicators making part of the EU and national assessments: GHG emissions, temperature deviation, ocean acidification, marine eutrophication, forest cover change and soil erosion. Although focusing on the biosphere, these indicators are linked to other SDGs on socio-economic and (geo)political factors (e.g., human health, resources security, poverty, conflicts, displacements). Thus, an additional cross-goals indicator and Pilot will focus on vulnerable communities under cumulative climate extreme hazards.  SDGs-EYES seeks to combine the science-informed (top-down) approach with a stakeholder-driven (bottom-up) approach to transfer scientific outcomes into easy-to-understand and easy-to-use actionable information in the context of SDG indicators’ assessment. Decision-making tools delivered by Pilots will be co-designed with users,

SRACC-CAMP-ADAPT: Supporting the Regional Climate Change Adaptation Strategy for the Campania Region

CMCC supports the Campania Region in designing and implementing its Regional Climate Change Adaptation Strategy, providing a solid and actionable knowledge base to address the challenges posed by climate change. Through an innovative and participatory approach, the project aims to develop tools and analyses that enable effective adaptation processes at both regional and local scales. At the heart of the initiative lies the creation of a high-resolution Regional Climate Framework, developed through climate hazard profiling co-designed to align with local priorities. This work integrates the analysis of long-term observed data series, future climate projections, and comprehensive uncertainty assessments, supporting the definition of robust, evidence-based adaptation strategies. The analyses and tools produced will be made available to the community via the Dataclime platform, fostering widespread use and raising awareness among citizens, institutions, and stakeholders. Furthermore, CMCC will actively support regional experts within the Working Group (GdL) tasked with developing the “Regional Climate Risk Analysis.” This initiative will focus on identifying and understanding potential impacts within the planning area under various climate scenarios and identified vulnerabilities. Finally, CMCC will provide technical and scientific support for communication and awareness-raising activities, promoting inclusive stakeholder engagement through protocols successfully implemented in previous and ongoing European projects (e.g., Adaptation Agora).

SystR: Accelerating Systemic Climate Adaptation Across Europe through Integrated Ecosystems of Resilience Solutions

SystR will propose a groundbreaking approach to feed the science-policy nexus with innovative solutions to address systemic risks (interconnection between multiple sectors and stakeholders and resulting cascading climate impacts). This approach will accelerate transformative adaptation and avoid maladaptation by breaking silos, harmonising multiple scales of governance and tailoring solutions to local needs and strengths with Smart Specialisation Strategies. Overall, while pursuing close collaboration with the Climate Adaptation Mission, SystR will demonstrate systemic resilience in three contexts most representative of Europe: coastal in Guadeloupe-France, rural in Bystrica-Slovakia and urban in Rome-Italy, which will be twinned with replication sites of similar challenges, Galicia, Strasbourg and Egaleo, respectively.

The HuT – The Human-Tech Nexus. Building a Safe Haven to cope with Climate Extremes

The HuT will employ innovative disaster risk reduction solutions, accounting for the potential variations induced by climate change. This will involve integrating and leveraging best practices and successful multi-disciplinary experiences that have been recently developed within various territorial contexts by leading European research groups, institutions, and stakeholders, to deal with extreme climate events. The project’s main ambition beyond the state of the art is to promote the “best set” of trans-disciplinary risk management tools and approaches that could be adopted and used extensively across Europe, in as many situations as possible. 

TiCCA4Danu: Transformative Innovation for Climate Change Adaptation in the Danube Region

TiCCA4Danu proposes a novel and comprehensive transformative innovation framework to accelerate just climate change adaptation (CCA) at the level of cities and their surrounding administrative regions. In order to address the structural barriers for CCA implementation at the city-region level, TiCCA4Danu proposes a systems-level approach, which requires effective governance changes, introduction of directionality, and a different use of policy instruments favouring discovery and experimentation processes. TiCCA4Danu directly relates to the EU Cities- and Adaptation Mission frameworks and builds on the emerging literature discussing the opportunities and limitations to governing socio-technical change for addressing grand challenges, such as climate change, through novel transformative approaches. At the core of TiCCA4Danu’s methodological approach lies the concept of place-based “Transformative Innovation Policy” (TIP), which postulates a systems-level change perspective in innovation policy. TiCCA4Danu aims at applying the theoretical TIP concept to the city-region level by linking TIP to “Local Green Deals” (LGD), an established instrument for sustainable transformation at the city level, and by complementing the LGDs with a novel approach for transformative CCA at the level of regions. With TIP facilitating wider and inclusive societal transformation, TiCCA4Danu features stronger involvement of vulnerable groups as well as stronger private sector involvement. TiCCA4Danu focussing its activities on four “Anchor Cities” and their surrounding regions in the Danube Macro Region, all constituting different bio-geographical regions, i.e. Coastal, Mountain and Continental. By establishing a direct link to the EU Strategy for the Danube Region (EUSDR) and by working with the relevant Priority Area Working Groups, TiCCA4Danu will

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