Period 3 until April 2025: A new digital platform and online marketplace was launched during this period for the REACHOUT toolkit (including climate stories and demonstrators), providing multiple entry points allowing users to navigate via guiding questions or moving directly to their tool or resource of choice (WP3). Climate stories for each city-hub have been finalized and handed over to the cities, confirming this method to be an effective communication tool (WP2). Upon the completion of the third co-development cycles, REACHOUT city-hubs and technical partners continued the tool applications begun in the first and second reporting periods, further developing and implementing tools into municipal processes (WP3). Some of these tools and their results have been transferred to the cities for continued use. In this period, partners looked closer to the action stage of the Triple-A approach. City-hubs have continued to share their experiences and learnings around these and other activities via co-creation lounges to enable cross-hub learning (WP1). The final of the three learning modules was finalized and presetned to both consoritum and external audiences, further building climate knowledge in cities on topics such as the Triple-A toolkit and willingness to invest in climate services among cities (WP5). A final round of consultations was held among international and national partnets, networks and platforms to discuss the legacy of REACHOUT and the Triple-A toolkit. Two final Policy Briefs, one on business models for climate services and another on lessons learned and remaining needs for climate services in European cities were published, as was a final communications campaign sharing key REACHOUT insights (WP6).
The key output of the REACHOUT project is the Triple-A toolkit, covering tools for heat and different flood hazards, social vulnerability, tools for identifying opportunities for adaptation, selecting appropriate options, designing pathways and several ‘soft tools’ to build capacity for adaptation.
Now the project has been finalized, the toolkit is accessible for resilience officers, urban planners, consultants world-wide in a user friendly manner. The use of combinations of different tools, covering analysis, ambition setting and action planning for different adaptation policy questions has been presented in 6 demonstrators: i) support dealing with floods in a fast growing city; ii) facing the heat in large metropolitan urban environments; iii) Prioritizing locations to implement nature-based solutions; iv) approaches cities can use which are in their early stages of adaptation; v) How can just and resilient urban development be combined?; and vi) Climate risk assessments for institutional and real estate investors across Europe. Each demonstrator shows how tools and climate data can be applied to support these questions and presents lessons from the several city hubs Amsterdam, Cork, Logrono, Gdynia, Lillestrom, Milan and Athens.
