Periodic Reporting for period 2 - REGILIENCE (Resilience Strategies for Regions)
Okres sprawozdawczy: 2023-05-01 do 2024-10-31
The effects of climate change are becoming more prevalent; they cause environmental degradation, economic losses, and harm to people's health and well-being throughout Europe and the world, underscoring the necessity of developing adaptation strategies in addition to mitigation ones. With the goal of making Europe climate resilient by 2050, the European Commission established a new strategy on adaptation to climate change in 2021 as one of the EU Missions. This strategy offers guidance and calls for cooperation and practical solutions. Communities and regions are important catalysts for driving this transformation, but they require advice to support and help economies and inhabitants adapt to climate change.
REGILIENCE is committed to supporting the European Green Deal and the EU Mission “Adaptation to Climate Change” by fostering the adoption of regional climate resilience development pathways. The project develops, compiles, shares and promotes tools and scientific knowledge to support European regions in identifying and addressing their climate-related risks. We work closely with sister projects, such as ARSINOE, IMPETUS and TransformAr to enhance the capacity of 7 focus regions to tackle the unavoidable impacts of climate change.
REGILIENCE supports communities, cities, and regions in their efforts towards building climate-resilient pathways. To make this support effective, REGILIENCE organises a variety of activities such as events, workshops, trainings, peer-to-peer mentorship, helpdesk, informational and communication material in various channels and actions to inspire policymakers, organisations, and individuals to become part of the change. Additionally, the platform enables them to share experiences, learn from the best practices, provide guidance, and disseminate knowledge and tools in achieving the best possible outcomes for communities and regions impacted by climate change.
REGILIENCE is committed to supporting the European Green Deal and the EU Mission “Adaptation to Climate Change” by fostering the adoption of regional climate resilience development pathways. The project develops, compiles, shares and promotes tools and scientific knowledge to support European regions in identifying and addressing their climate-related risks. We work closely with sister projects, such as ARSINOE, IMPETUS and TransformAr to enhance the capacity of 7 focus regions to tackle the unavoidable impacts of climate change.
REGILIENCE supports communities, cities, and regions in their efforts towards building climate-resilient pathways. To make this support effective, REGILIENCE organises a variety of activities such as events, workshops, trainings, peer-to-peer mentorship, helpdesk, informational and communication material in various channels and actions to inspire policymakers, organisations, and individuals to become part of the change. Additionally, the platform enables them to share experiences, learn from the best practices, provide guidance, and disseminate knowledge and tools in achieving the best possible outcomes for communities and regions impacted by climate change.
The overall objective of REGILIENCE is to foster the adoption and wide dissemination of regional climate resilience pathways, sharing the project’s expertise and knowledge, as well as the solutions from the sister projects ARSINOE, TransformAr and IMPETUS, and other sources.
The project follows a demand-driven approach and especially targets 7 focus regions in Europe, which are: Comunitat Valenciana (Spain), Comunidad Autónoma de la Región de Murcia (Spain), Regão Autónoma da Madeira (Portugal), La Réunion (France), Jadranska Hrvatska Istrian County Area (Croatia), Yuzhen tsentralen (Bulgaria), Central Macedonia (Greece).
Since month 18, REGILIENCE has:
- Transferred part of its tools and knowledge to MIP4Adapt, to broaden the audience and information (e.g. tools database, funding database, Technical Working Group on Evaluation and Monitoring)
- Implemented further exchange, training and peer-to-peer sessions with a broad audience and particularly inviting and engaging the 7 focus regions
- Steered joint sister-project communication and transfer activities, including at large events (e.g. EURESFO), specific activities and tools (e.g. joint newsletter), following a common communications and event calendar – which is also shared and discussed with parallel initiatives such as MIP4Adapt and P2R
- Specifically supported the 7 regions with demand-based activities, e.g. a training on sustainable urban drainage and nature-based solutions for municipal authorities in Murcia or an exchange workshop on climate adaptation in Istria
- Supported focus regions (e.g. Istria) in accessing further funding for the development of their climate resilience pathways
- Further developed and promoted own tools such as the self-assessment tool to spot risks of maladaptation, and a dashboard to link climate risks with the solutions implemented by the cluster sister projects, to ease dissemination and replication.
The project follows a demand-driven approach and especially targets 7 focus regions in Europe, which are: Comunitat Valenciana (Spain), Comunidad Autónoma de la Región de Murcia (Spain), Regão Autónoma da Madeira (Portugal), La Réunion (France), Jadranska Hrvatska Istrian County Area (Croatia), Yuzhen tsentralen (Bulgaria), Central Macedonia (Greece).
Since month 18, REGILIENCE has:
- Transferred part of its tools and knowledge to MIP4Adapt, to broaden the audience and information (e.g. tools database, funding database, Technical Working Group on Evaluation and Monitoring)
- Implemented further exchange, training and peer-to-peer sessions with a broad audience and particularly inviting and engaging the 7 focus regions
- Steered joint sister-project communication and transfer activities, including at large events (e.g. EURESFO), specific activities and tools (e.g. joint newsletter), following a common communications and event calendar – which is also shared and discussed with parallel initiatives such as MIP4Adapt and P2R
- Specifically supported the 7 regions with demand-based activities, e.g. a training on sustainable urban drainage and nature-based solutions for municipal authorities in Murcia or an exchange workshop on climate adaptation in Istria
- Supported focus regions (e.g. Istria) in accessing further funding for the development of their climate resilience pathways
- Further developed and promoted own tools such as the self-assessment tool to spot risks of maladaptation, and a dashboard to link climate risks with the solutions implemented by the cluster sister projects, to ease dissemination and replication.
Given that REGILIENCE aims for coordination and support ‘Climate-resilient Innovation Packages for EU regions’, the main expected impact is to foster coordination and coherence between the different call-related projects and related initiatives as well as to boost replication and impact of these. Our impact targets remain the following:
• 7 regions (or provinces, counties or equivalent) co-design climate resilience pathways, supported by REGILIENCE in addition to the regions targeted by the Innovation Packages, as a previous step to sign a climate resilience contract.
• 10 successful regional climate resilience pathways are used as inspiring examples by other regions.
• 50 institutions, projects or initiatives are actively coordinating or cooperating during the project period.
• 10% increase in the number of users of knowledge platforms compared to previous system.
• 20 % increase in usage of knowledge platforms compared to previous system.
• 600 citizens have improved their knowledge and capacities on climate resilience pathways.
• 20,000 citizens are more aware and engaged with climate resilience
Our approach is demand-based and promoting the regions forward, e.g. to engage in further funded initiatives or providing them with useful inputs for their own processes.
• 7 regions (or provinces, counties or equivalent) co-design climate resilience pathways, supported by REGILIENCE in addition to the regions targeted by the Innovation Packages, as a previous step to sign a climate resilience contract.
• 10 successful regional climate resilience pathways are used as inspiring examples by other regions.
• 50 institutions, projects or initiatives are actively coordinating or cooperating during the project period.
• 10% increase in the number of users of knowledge platforms compared to previous system.
• 20 % increase in usage of knowledge platforms compared to previous system.
• 600 citizens have improved their knowledge and capacities on climate resilience pathways.
• 20,000 citizens are more aware and engaged with climate resilience
Our approach is demand-based and promoting the regions forward, e.g. to engage in further funded initiatives or providing them with useful inputs for their own processes.