Project description
Empowering mountain communities for climate resilience
Mountains cover 30 % of the Earth's surface, and 17 % of the EU population resides in these areas. Mountains play a crucial role in providing resources and supporting communities, but they also face challenges due to climate change, exacerbated by a lack of adaptation responses. The EU-funded MountResilience project will support European regions and communities located in mountainous areas to increase their capacity to adapt to climate change and transition towards a climate-resilient society. Through the involvement of six regional demonstrators and four replicator regions, the project will conceptualise, test, and scale up multilevel, multidimensional, and reapplicable climate change adaptation and nature-based solutions. In this way, it will address policy and societal needs, as well as citizen behaviours, to assess specific climate impacts in mountainous regions.
Objective
"Mountains cover 30% of the land area and are home to 17% of the EU´s population, meaning that every 6th EU citizen lives in mountainous areas. While we often associate mountains with breathtaking landscapes that offer perfect sites for relaxation, in truth, mountains are much more than that. In fact, mountains play a crucial role in our daily lives by providing vital resources and key community systems to the global population. Mountains like other areas face unprecedented challenges in terms of climate change (CC), however mountain ecosystems are more sensitive to CC. The harmful conditions provoked by CC are exacerbated by the significant deficits in adaptation responses mountainous areas have, stemming from several existing gaps, including shortcomings in CCA options, deficits in the uptake and the lack of coherence.
MountResilience has been formulated to increase the adaptation capacity of mountainous regions and communities so as to strengthen climate resilience within the European mountainous biogeographical region (Alpine biogeographical region). The project aims to accelerate the climate resilient transformation of 10 of the most relevant communities and regions located in the mountains in 9 European countries. 6 of the regions will develop and test transformative CCA solutions (technological and social innovations with nature-based solutions at their core). These solutions will address policy, governance, societal needs and behaviours, technological requirements, public and financing targets, and CC risks typical of mountainous areas. Regional quadruple-helix partnerships will use open innovation, participatory decision-making, stakeholder engagement approaches, and effective communication to mobilise, engage, and reach out to key communities. The remaining 4 regions will serve as ""replicator"" regions, repurposing CCA solutions and lessons learned from the demo regions in their regions through special initiatives to improve their adaptive capacity.
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HORIZON-IA - HORIZON Innovation ActionsCoordinator
20122 Milano
Italy
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Participants (42)
1113 Sofia
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00144 Roma
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4450-309 Matosinhos
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
050542 Bucharest
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1040 Wien
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1150 Wien
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75008 Paris
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10122 Torino
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557085 Cristian
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10124 Torino
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010731 Bucuresti
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6020 Innsbruck
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00790 Helsinki
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5300 Gabrovo
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6020 Innsbruck
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557205 Rau Sadului
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6020 Innsbruck
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6020 Innsbruck
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1040 Bruxelles / Brussel
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13100 Vercelli
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5300 Gabrovo
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96100 Rovaniemi
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5300 Gabrovo
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12084 Mondovi
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Participation ended
35-010 Rzeszow
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08193 Bellaterra
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00184 Roma
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10129 Torino
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08029 Barcelona
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1000 BRUXELLES
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1120 Wien
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Legal entity other than a subcontractor which is affiliated or legally linked to a participant. The entity carries out work under the conditions laid down in the Grant Agreement, supplies goods or provides services for the action, but did not sign the Grant Agreement. A third party abides by the rules applicable to its related participant under the Grant Agreement with regard to eligibility of costs and control of expenditure.
014104 Bucharest
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51000 Rijeka
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34127 Trieste
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34121 Trieste
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1000 Bruxelles / Brussel
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22000 Split
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6020 Innsbruck
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99100 Kittila
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99400 Enontekio
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99980 Utsjoki
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35-051 Rzeszow
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Partners (5)
1015 Lausanne
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1937 Le Chable
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1950 Sion
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1015 Lausanne
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
1950 Sion
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