Project description
New tools to boost healthcare climate defence
As the impacts of climate change escalate, the vulnerability of healthcare systems to extreme weather events, higher temperatures, decreased air quality and emerging diseases becomes increasingly evident. The COVID-19 crisis highlighted the importance of resilience. Urgent action is needed worldwide to mitigate the effects of climate change on public health and to boost community-driven resilience. In this context, the EU-funded MOUNTADAPT project will pioneer climate adaptation solutions across mountainous regions in Austria, France, Romania and Slovenia. Led by local health systems, authorities and communities, the project will engage diverse health sector actors to co-design and test innovative strategies. Specifically, MOUNTADAPT will integrate state-of-the-art forecasting, monitoring and emergency management tools. Through training initiatives and awareness campaigns, it will empower healthcare professionals and citizens.
Objective
In the face of climate change, events like COVID-19 crisis with high impact in specific sectors demonstrated the importance of resilient societies. As such, it is vital to act with a level of urgency for climate change related impacts to health sector that are proportionate to the scale of the threat, be prepared and informed on the basis of the best-available science, and practise clear and consistent communications to all those involved. Therefore, in MOUNTADAPT, various regional and local authorities and community members will take the leadership to co-design, co-develop and test eleven state of the art climate adaptation solutions across the mountains biogeographical region, in Austria, Slovenia, France and Romania. A diversity of actors of the health system will also collaborate throughout the project to demonstrate the replicability of the solutions in a diversity of settings: within the Alpine mountains in Romania, outside Europe in the Pyrenees in Andora and beyond, in the continental area in Germany. MOUNTADAPT will develop robust models to better understand the impact of climate change on health (PR1). The project will cover the whole chain of response to a climate induced health emergency with monitoring tools (PR2) that will be directly linked to short term forecasts to communicate warnings (PR3) to the relevant stakeholders. An emergency management tool (PR4) will finally support health systems to optimally organise staff in crisis time. This will be supported by guidance for transforming the health system (PR5) and empowered actors with the training courses for healthcare professionals and awareness raising campaigns for citizens (PR6). Detailed monitoring protocols and impact assessment frameworks (PR7) will allow for a continuous evaluation of a range of adaptation solutions during and after the project, providing incentive for their implementation. Finally, MOUNTADAPT will provide a full guide (PR8) for the implementation of its adaptation solutions, boosting their replication in new territories and will provide feedback to the Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Authority.
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75009 Paris
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Participants (24)
15341 Agia Paraskevi
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92100 Boulogne Billancourt
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38058 Grenoble
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38610 GIERES
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300723 Timisoara
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1000 Bruxelles / Brussel
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03400 YZEURE
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08029 Barcelona
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
77420 Champs Sur Marne
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48007 Bilbao
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20097 Hamburg
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13100 Vercelli
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6020 Innsbruck
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6020 Innsbruck
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6060 Hall in Tirol
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2000 Maribor
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2352 Selnica Ob Dravi
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2000 Maribor
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519122 ALBA IULIA
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510134 Alba Iulia
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38700 La Tronche
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38031 Grenoble
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22700 Jaca
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20095 HAMBURG
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Partner organisations contribute to the implementation of the action, but do not sign the Grant Agreement.
1010 Wien
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Partner organisations contribute to the implementation of the action, but do not sign the Grant Agreement.
AD700 Escaldes-Engordany
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