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. 

Duration
48 months from 01/10/2022 to 30/09/2026
Funded by
  • European Commission (Horizon European Program)

Coordinating organization
  • Università di Salerno

CMCC Scientific Leader
CMCC Project manager
CMCC Institutes

CMCC Divisions

General aims

General objectives
The activities of the project will be developed considering the following main critical dimensions: trans-disciplinarity, systemic risk, co-production, cross-fertilization, transferability, and long-term legacy.
A set of ten demonstrators will constitute a multi-hazard arena wherein possible disastrous events associated with climate extremes will be dealt with jointly by representatives of the scientific and technical communities, practitioners, policy-makers and local communities. The events associated to climate extremes that will be considered in this project are: forest fires, including wildland urban interface fires; meteorological, hydrological, agricultural droughts, including associated water shortage; heatwaves; weather-induced landslides, including debris flows; fluvial and pluvial floods; storms, including heavy rain, hail, thunderstorms, and storm surges. The HuT will mainly focus on the prevention and preparedness phases of the disaster risk management cycle, explicitly considering climate change scenarios and integrating the proposed set of solutions, for the various events considered, over short- (from days to several months) and long-term (from years to decades) time horizons.

CMCC role
Fondazione CMCC acts as Deputy Coordinator for the Project. Furthermore, it leads the WP “Science and Technology” aimed at developing the technological aspects of the cutting-edge DRR solutions to cope with different weather-induced risks. Finally, it leads two demonstrators: Monti Lattari (DEM3) and Ogliastra Province (DEM8).

Activities
Fondazione CMCC is involved in all the Work Packages in several cases with significant responsibilities (e.g. WP “Demonstrators’ Arena” and “Science and Technology”). Specifically, CMCC expertise is expected to support the development of human-tech DRR innovations to cope with geo-hydrological and fire hazards in several Demonstrators; among the others, development of financial and insurance products, field monitoring by exploiting IoT low-cost devices, promoting the full involvement of communities and practitioners in the risk prevention frameworks. In different activities, CMCC will be supported by third party CNR.

Expected results
The HuT is expected to support the development of Human-Tech Nexus DRR innovations to cope with weather-induced hazards. In this regard, several innovations will be released in Demonstrators different for hazards, socio-economic and geomorphological features. Nonetheless, the ambition is that of permitting a full transferability and replicability of such innovations among the Demonstrators through two pillars: DRR Innovation Forums, implemented by physical and virtual meetings among the stakeholders with the aim to improve the dialogue at local and then international level and the “Innovation Fairs”, innovative ways to display and promote (also in commercial terms) the different already available or under development DRR innovations.

Funded by
The HuT project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe Framework Programme for Research and Innovation (2021-2027) under grant agreement No. 101073957
(HORIZON-CL3-2021-DRS-01-02 – Integrated Disaster Risk Reduction for extreme climate events: from early warning systems to long term adaptation and resilience building)

Partner
Università Degli Studi di Salerno, IT
Fondazione Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici, IT
CONSIGLIO NAZIONALE DELLE RICERCHE (third-party of Fondazione CMCC)
Helmholtz-Zentrum HEREON GmbH, DE
Helmholtz Zentrum Potsdam Deutsches Geoforschungszentrum GFZ, DE
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), AT
Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, ES
Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, ES
Stiftelsen Norges Geotekniske Institutt, NO
Global Water Partnership Central and Eastern Europe, SK
Helsingin Yliopisto, FI
Verdustofa Islands, IS
Vilniaus University, LT
ARANTEC ENGINHERIA SL, ES
Közép-Tisza-Vidéki Vízügyi Igazgatóság, HU
Fondazione Icons, IT
Leitha SRL, IT
Comune di Sorrento, IT
Confagricoltura Nuoro Ogliastra, IT
National Commissioner of the Icelandic Police, IS
AUSTURBRU SES, IS
Universite de Geneve, CH
University College London, UK
MET Office, UK
United Kingdom Research and Innovation, UK
Global Network of Civil Society Organisations for Disaster Reduction, UK

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