MAGICA aims to accelerate the development, provision and exchange of knowledge from research and innovation to inform and support policy-making and climate actions via a better coordination of on-going and future initiatives and a more efficient use of resources.
The project ambition is to guide future climate research through a scientifically rigorous, democratic and open iterative process involving the strategic, scientific and social components of climate change research and innovation. On one hand, the engagement of European Research funding agencies (gathered within JPI Climate) contributes to enhance the alignment and coordination of climate change research programmes across ERA and thus facilitates the design and endorsement of a Joint Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda (SRIA) on climate change for ERA 2025-2034.
On the other hand, MAGICA fosters a multi-directional exchange between the scientific community, policy-makers and society to increase the quality of both research and policy and also their social legitimacy. Through the organization of institutional dialogues and fora (e.g. the Equinox Process), international conferences and workshops (e.g. ECCA2023, CNF2024, ECCA2025, SLR event series, COP28 and COP29 side events) and exchanges with younger generations (e.g. MAGICA Summer Schools and edutainment labs), the project fosters concrete mechanisms and platforms to accelerate the effective transfer of robust and authoritative knowledge that informs and enables effective decisions and actions towards the transition to a climate-neutral and resilient Europe.
