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SKADAR LAKE – Skhoder integrated ecosystem management project

Taking into account the nature of the hydrologic system affecting Lake Skadar-Shkoder, the consultanti s expected to develop a predictive hydrological lake and lake basin model, with associated software, licenses, documentation, applications and training.

Skills4EOSC | Skills for the European Open Science Commons: Creating a Training Ecosystem for Open and FAIR Science

Skills4EOSC brings together leading experiences of national, regional, institutional, and thematic Open Science (OS) and Data Competence Centres from 18 European countries with the goal of unifying the current training landscape into a common and trusted pan-European ecosystem, in order to accelerate the upskilling of European researchers and data professionals in the field of FAIR and Open Data, intensive-data science and Scientific Data Management. Competence Centres (CC) are seen as centres of gravity of OS and EOSC activities in their countries. These entities can either be established national initiatives (as is the case of ICDI in Italy) or initiatives under establishment (e.g., Austria, Greece, and the Nordic countries) or organizations which have the leading or mandated contribution to the OS activities nationally. CCs pool the expertise available within research institutions, universities, and thematic and cross-discipline research infrastructures. They offer training and support, empowerment, lifelong learning, professionalization, and resources to a variety of stakeholders, including not only researchers and data stewards, but also funders, decision makers, civil servants, and industry. Thanks to their position at the heart of the above-described multi-stakeholder landscape, the CCs represented by the Skills4EOSC partners play a pivotal role in national plans for Open Science and in the interaction with scientific communities. They also have close access to policy makers and the related funding streams. The Skills4EOSC project will leverage this reference role to establish a pan-European network of CCs on OS and data, coordinating the work done at the national level to upskill professionals in this

SMOOTH – Sustainable Finance for a Smooth Low-Carbon Transition

The threat of climate change calls for a rapid transition to a low-carbon society. Aligning the financial system with climate stability is a crucial prerequisite for achieving decarbonization while preserving economic prosperity and societal welfare. However, we currently lack a comprehensive understanding of how the institutional and behavioural features of financial systems may affect the speed and shape of the low-carbon transition. Additionally, the coevolving socioeconomic, financial and environmental repercussions of such a large-scale societal transformation have not yet been systematically analyzed. The SMOOTH project will lay the foundations of an innovative macro-financial analytical framework to provide essential insights on the links between financial systems and decarbonization dynamics.

SOCLIMPACT – DownScaling CLImate imPACTs and decarbonisation pathways in EU islands, and enhancing socioeconomic and non-market evaluation of Climate Change for Europe, for 2050 and beyond

The SOCLIMPACT consortium involves 24 partners, many of them coming from 12 European islands and archipelagos: European Small States Islands: Cyprus and Malta; European islands: Baltic Islands, Balearic Islands, Siciliy, Sardinia, Corsica, Crete; European Outermost Regions: Azores, Madeira, Canary Islands and French West Indies. They all have different key competences, including the study of climate change impacts, climate and economic modelling, social sciences, marine biodiversity, climate policies and the islands and of the outermost European regions. From Climate Change projections to the design of adaptation options, SOCLIMPACT repasses the Impact-Vulnerability-Adaptation chains, improving the modelling tools, developing the interrelations between steps, adapting this framework to the case of islands, and improving its transfer to decision makers.

Space It Up!

SPACE IT UP is a program aiming at enhancing the space technology of Italy to be used for space exploration and exploitation for the benefit of planet Earth and the entire humankind. An extended project partnership will foster synergies between academy, industry, and research centres to have a strong impact on the Italian space sector and to pursuit the following main objectives: -Promote innovative and extend fundamental knowledge; -Fostering a sustainable future; -Ensure long-term human permanence in extraterrestrial space; -Strengthening the “Ecosystem” space in Italy.

SPARCCLE – Socioeconomic Pathways, Adaptation and Resilience to Changing CLimate in Europe

The SPARCCLE is a project funded by the European Union’s Horizon Europe program, and it is focused on delivering adaptation and mitigation strategies for a just and climate-resilient Europe. The project aims to support policymaking for action on the socioeconomic risks of climate change, establishing new methodological frameworks to link knowledge across disciplines from research communities working on climate impacts and risks in Europe. Bottom-up assessments of multidimensional climate vulnerabilities, risks, damages, and adaptation will be combined with top-down integrated assessment frameworks (IAFs) and leading multi-sectoral macroeconomic models.

Specialist support service for the development of the climate change adaptation plan for the Cinque Terre National Park Authority within the framework of the LIFE Project “Stonewalls 4 life”

This service contract will enable Cinque Terre National Park to adopt an adaptation plan for climate change, in collaboration with Legambiente and DISTAV Department from University of Genova. Furthermore, it will lead to the elaboration of specific guidelines for the development of a climate change adaptation plan for national parks and protected natural areas to support other Italian or European structures that intend to develop their own plan.

SRACC – Scientific-Technical collaboration with University of Sassari for supporting the Sardegna Autonomous Region (RAS) the development of a detailed Operational Plan for the Implementation and Review of the Regional Strategy for Adaptation to Climate Change (SRACC)

In the framer of the research activities on going for supporting the Sardegna Autonomous Region (SAR)  the development of a detailed Operational Plan for the Implementation and Review of the Regional Strategy for Adaptation to Climate Change (SRACC). CMCC will provide climate condition of Sardinia at high spatial resolution (about 2.2 km) through the development of cognitive elements suitable for consolidating the adaptation process on a regional and local scale, for a historical period of reference and for future climate scenarios up to 2050. Moreover CMCC will collaborate to the assessment of the impacts of climate change on strategic sectors for the Sardinia region and for risk appetite for some key sectors: development of a methodology for assessing the impacts of future climate changes on the strategic sectors identified by the UNISS working group and by RAS.

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).

START – SisTemi di rApid mapping e contRollo del Territorio costiero e marino

START project will develop Coastal Situational Awareness (CSA) actions for Apulia Region (Italy), improving the awareness (and the knowledge) of coastal environment, integrating the observed systems (also in real time) with the operational and forecasting modelling. The project START will produce services to (i) provide early warning and rapid mapping of extreme events in Apulia coastal areas, (ii) define coastal erosion and flooding indicators, (iii) support an integrated management of harbour areas.

STREAM – Strategic development of flood management

STREAM consortium will create or update flood cadastre for fluvial, urban and coastal flooding in the program area. Moreover, it will develop flood risk maps on the basis on flood cadastre data and collect available official data and layers already realized at national and regional level, supporting to the definition of flood risk plans. Through the International Flood platform, the STREAM project will enhance data sharing and access to advanced functionalities, allowing at the same time the current existing systems to stay in place without changing their operational workflows and also fostering the partners’ capacities to deal with required data standards at EU level and beyond. The STREAM project will develop an integrated probabilistic ensemble forecasting system for the coastal and inland areas. A multi-model system will provide sea conditions, including storm surge and waves contributions and total sea level forecast over the whole Adriatic and Ionian seas, allowing also the integration of the sea forecasts into site specific newly developed and existing coastal forecasting systems.

Study on the macro-economic impacts of the climate transition

The study comprises three parts: The first part aims at deepening the understanding of the socio-economic impacts of the transition to climate neutral economies. In particular, the study focuses on the implications of potential frictions and challenges in the socio-economic transformation process and on the potential gains and opportunities of the transition to climate neutrality. The second part of the study should quantify the investment needs for adaptation to climate change across all EU Member States. And the third part brings together the work undertaken under the first two parts to make a preliminary assessment of the macro-economic impacts of the combined investment needs on mitigation and adaptation in a 2050 horizon.

SUSHI – SUStainable HIstoric city districts

SUSHI project departs from an holistic approach to address common challenges already identified in historic districts of six cities from five EU Mediterranean countries [Lisboa (PT), Valletta (MT), Savona (IT), Ptuj (SI), Nicosia (CY), and Sassari (IT)] to work, within a shared framework, to change their historic districts towards more sustainable, climate resilient and inclusive ones, through innovative integrated solutions and social change.

SUSTAINadapt – Strumenti e approcci per declinare l’integrazione fra sostenibilità e adattamento

SUSTAINadapt aims to develop innovative tools to support the implementation of sustainable development policies integrated with adaptation to climate change. SUSTAINadapt will create innovative participatory spaces (living labs) whose methods and results will be directly applicable at different scales and in different contexts. Particular attention will be paid to the broad stakeholder participation and communication, which will be designed to reach different levels of audience.

SWITCH – Switching European food systems for a just, healthy and sustainable dietary transition through knowledge and innovation

The transition towards sustainable, safe, healthy and inclusive food systems, from farm to fork, has become a key priority for EU policies, in line with the UN goals sustainable development goals (SDGs). The biggest challenge at present is represented by the limited knowledge of influence dietary choices that limits large scale adoption of healthy and sustainable diets. The ambition of the SWITCH project is to accelerate the behavioral shift of European citizens towards more sustainable and healthy patterns, using Research and Innovation (R&I) as a driver to increase knowledge, accessibility and facilitation strategies at all level of the food systems, involving a multi-actor systemic approach and a co-creation strategy to delineate solutions fair to consumers that support virtuous behavior throughout the whole food chain. For a successful large scale adoption of healthy dietary behavior, all the actors of the food systems need to be engaged, connected and valorized.

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.

TABASCO – Plan of Adaptation Measures to reduce Vulnerability of Lagoon System Carmen-Pajonal-Machona, Tabasco, to Impacts created by Climate Change and Human Activities

The lagoon system Carmen-Pajonal-Machona is located in the Gulf of Mexico and has an area of 190 km2. Anthropogenic change, mainly due to oil extraction, has changed the hydrodynamic, morphological and ecological characteristics of the lagoon system. Other causes of alteration are: agricultural development, deforestation and industrial development. In addition to these problems, which already make the system vulnerable, there are further problems due to the impact of climate change. The project aims at designing adaptation measures to climate change, which will be managed by local communities.

Talking Chestnut – New techniques for monitoring the carbon balance and health of wood and fruit chestnut stands

In a large part of the Italian Apennines, the chestnut stands are evolving towards mixed forests with a predominant presence of Castanea sativa Mill., losing the structural characteristics for the traditional fruit production. In facing this process of renaturalization, the Emilia Romagna Region recognizes the desirability of maintaining also the traditional chestnut fruit production in the Apennines, as a resource for the mountain economy and as a typical element of the landscape and tradition. Therefore, the recovery and maintenance of the traditional chestnut fruit stands can be performed on small areas (<500 m2) within the forest matrix (Art. 30, Forestry Regulations), where the more suitable conditions occur, considering both the phytoclimatic and the micro-stationary characteristics. In this framework, the project aims to assess the ecological footprints associated to the recovery of the traditional chestnut fruit stands, in terms of C sink and stock in the soil-tree system, water use and land cover.

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