Project description
Engaging citizens in climate resilience strategies
Climate change impacts our society, economy and the environment. For instance, flooding has affected millions of people in Europe in recent years. Heat waves have also taken a toll across many EU Member States. Unfortunately, efforts by policymakers, experts and other stakeholders are not enough. Citizen engagement is also needed. Climate assemblies and living labs are considered sustainable and reasonable tools to advance climate policymaking. The EU-funded CLIMAS project will develop an innovative problem-oriented climate adaptation toolbox codesigned with stakeholders by applying a values-based approach, design thinking methods, and citizen science mechanisms. The toolbox will anticipate possible tensions, points of controversy, and dilemmas and enable engagement strategies that produce a society ‘resilient by design’.
Objective
"Climate change is one of the most critical issues to tackle today as it is foreseen to have detrimental social, environmental and economic impacts in the near future. The last climate change events, such as flooding in Germany and Belgium in both Continental and Atlantic regions, heat waves and lack of water in both Mediterranean and Boreal regions, show that the policymakers, experts and stakeholders' actions are not enough, and a 360º citizens engagement is urgently needed. Therefore, we need to learn from the good experience in citizens' engagement in climate change action and build up citizens` supporting infrastructure for climate adaptation measures to help the 150 European regions and local communities to resist. Climate assemblies and Living labs are considered as sustainable and reasonable tools to stimulate deliberative democracy in climate policymaking. The ambition of the current project is to support a transformation to climate resilience by offering an innovative problem-oriented climate adoption Toolbox, co-designed together with stakeholders by applying a values-based approach, design thinking methods and citizen science mechanisms. It is expected that the use of the Toolbox will anticipate possible tensions, points of controversy and dilemmas vis-a-vis the adaptation to resilience - therefore enabling empowerment and engagement strategies that produce a society ""resilient by design"". In addition, CLIMAS will include the empirical component for testing this Toolbox and formulating scientific-based guidelines for policymakers on how to shift Climate Assemblies from technically based deliberations that belong to climate change experts to multi-stakeholders deliberations based on solving the dilemmas from a bottom-up, more societal and value-based perspective. CLIMAS outcomes will positively influence policy development and awareness-raising process and offer sustainable strategies to enhance the acceptance of citizens' led decisions by policymakers."
Fields of science
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesenvironmental sciencessustainability sciences
- social sciencespolitical sciencesgovernment systemsdemocracy
- social sciencespolitical sciencespolitical policiescivil society
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesatmospheric sciencesclimatologyclimatic changes
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HORIZON-RIA - HORIZON Research and Innovation ActionsCoordinator
LT-10223 Vilnius
Lithuania
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Participants (12)
28012 Madrid
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1050 Bruxelles / Brussel
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1080 Wien
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81100 Mytilini
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011186 Bucuresti
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LT-09320 VILNIUS
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00185 Roma
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48003 Bilbao
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1002 Riga
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08290 Cerdanyola Del Valles (Barcelona)
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64625 Bensheim
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08002 Barcelona
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Partners (6)
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LT-01204 Vilnius
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LT-08205 Vilnius
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1539 Riga
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M15 6JJ MANCHESTER
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1049 Bruxelles / Brussel
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Partner organisations contribute to the implementation of the action, but do not sign the Grant Agreement.
34295 Edermünde
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