For the nine ARSINOE case studies, the partners have identified all the stakeholders, developed a context mapping to understand their interlinkages and formed nine Living Labs, three of which are transboundary and multinational. Two rounds of Living lab workshops have been organized with local stakeholders which resulted notably in the design of a mental map of their needs and their vision of our regions of tomorrow. A participatory modeling approach supervises iterations between the living labs and the scientific teams to address all involved themes, trade-offs, synergies, hidden causalities, and systemic solutions. Cutting edge scientific tools and approaches are exploited to achieve digitization of systems, harmonization, replicability, scalability, and citizen engagement.
Moreover, several innovations have already been developed. Notably:
- Development and application of a Resilience Framework that integrate all critical steps and iterations for addressing climate change implications, assessing risks on social integrity, lives, health, well-being, economy, infrastructure, and operations. Arsinoe’s resilience Framework supervises iterations among the socio-economic and biophysical systems, such as the Risk Assessment, the Data, stakeholders, policy making and planning. The resilience framework will be linked and reflected to a long-term and short-term operations Dashboard, co-designed to address user requirements through innovative visualisation techniques.
- Development of a Knowledge Graph, the “SustainGraph”, which is targeted towards tackling environmental problems in a holistic way, considering representation and fusion of information made available for scientists of distant disciplines. The SustainGraph aims to develop and apply semantics and ontologies across resilience building approaches, facilitating interoperability and harmonization among tools, established frameworks and protocols.
- The design of the participatory socio-environmental systems modelling framework, and documentation of the main modelling techniques that can be applied over the SustainGraph.
- Development of a Citizen Observatory to monitor biodiversity (Beta phase). In less than a year MINKA has 442 users, 108452 views and 92 projects. Additionally, Arsinoe’s Citizen Science tool and activities are leveraging social participation and engagement at a more extended public outreach, beyond the Living Labs.
- Development and implementation of an urban biodiversity assessment framework that identifies important hotspots and drivers of biodiversity in the city.
- Risk assessment framework in the case studies that takes into account hazard, exposure, and vulnerability to be used for resilience analysis in the case studies.
- The first version of the data catalogue, the Data Management Service, the Data Transformation Service for tabular data.
- Design of complexity science tools, such as System Dynamics and Agent Based modeling, are used to integrate systems and address their intense inherent dynamics. These tools are facilitating a high-level participation of the Living Labs in the modeling approaches. Stakeholders indicate and co-shape all the relevant systems that need to be investigated and simulated, that play a conclusive role in reaching resilience.
- Arsinoe is also developing Digital Twins for two Case Studies, contributing to the digitization of Socio-Ecological Systems and providing for real-time insight in critical causalities that are linked to sensitive systems for resilience, such as critical infrastructure.
- Moreover, the ARSINOE partners have performed all the preparation for the ARSINOE Open Tenders for Innovations and for the upgrade of the Climate Innovation Window and its exploitation.
