Project description
Upscaling effective, actionable nature-based solutions
Climate change is increasingly impacting nature, people and biodiversity. Nature-based solutions (NBS) such as wetlands restoration, forest conservation or the creation of urban green spaces can enhance climate resilience and benefit society in many ways. However, few solutions have been scaled beyond local contexts and adoption varies widely across regions. The EU-funded ARCADIA project aims to encourage adoption by understanding people’s perceptions of risks and solutions and designing incentives that foster acceptance and action. More specifically, it will create 15 co-innovation labs in eight European countries, develop stakeholder capacity, and support implementation and upscaling via robust policy and economic tools.
Objective
It is demonstrated that Nature Based Solutions (NBS) efficiently and effectively contribute to climate adaptation. However NBS need to be adapted locally and to be coherently chosen in order to assure sustainability and “no side effects”. To achieve this, ARCADIA will mobilise 8 European regions and communities – from Italy, Croatia, Austria, Denmark, Sweden, Bulgaria, Romania, Slovenia - to accelerate NBS adoption and assist them in accessing up-to-date, evidence-based actionable knowledge, guidance, knowledge-intense tools and services, mutual learning and networking opportunities.
The project will foster enabling conditions to accelerate regeneration using NBS, by analysing individual and socially determined perceptions of risks and solutions, and experimentally designing incentives and behavioural nudges fostering social acceptance and community actions.
In ARCADIA, the definition of regional ambitions and of methodologies and approaches co-developed at consortium level, will be followed by the implementation of 15 co-innovation labs with the engagement of the interested communities and societal partners; the learning across policy areas will be exploited to up-scale and deploy at large scale the solutions in the regions, developing robust policy and economic tools (regulations, funding schemes, business models, investment tools).
Strategic objectives of the proposal are:
1. Co-design regional strategies to accelerate transformative adaptation, building upon and mainstreaming innovative, actionable NBS with demonstrated feasibility, effectiveness and social value
2. Assist and empower communities, public administrations and businesses
3. Stimulate collaborative knowledge building and transfer, developing capacities and capabilities
4. Promote coherence and exploit synergies, value and production chains, and public and private spheres of business innovation
5. Advance EU research & innovation agenda on NBS and EU Mission Adaptation.
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HORIZON-IA - HORIZON Innovation ActionsCoordinator
40129 Bologna Bo
Italy
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Participants (37)
73100 Lecce
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38121 Trento
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1081 HV Amsterdam
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750 07 Uppsala
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47900 Rimini Rn
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6708 PB Wageningen
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1018 DC Amsterdam
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40127 Bologna
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40139 Bologna
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40137 Bologna
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54013 Sassalbo Di Fivizzano
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47122 Forli
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3109 St Polten
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3109 ST. POLTEN
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1190 Wien
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3100 SANKT POLTEN
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3430 Tulln
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3100 St Polten
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10000 Zagreb
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10000 Zagreb
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10 000 Zagreb
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10000 ZAGREB
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49000 Krapina
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49000 KRAPINA
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211 19 Malmo
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
200 42 Malmo
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251 89 Helsingborg
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221 00 Lund
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5000 Odense C
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5000 Odense
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5230 Odense M
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5000 ODENSE
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7100 Vejle
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4000 Plovdiv
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510093 Alba Iulia
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2250 PTUJ
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40126 Bologna
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Partners (5)
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43121 Parma
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52015 Pratovecchio
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49232 Radoboj
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10000 Zagreb
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291 89 Kristianstad
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