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Shaping safe, sustainable, and human-centered places

Objective

Europe’s built environment is central to achieving EU climate neutrality, resilience and social inclusion. Despite the growing availability of low-carbon and circular solutions, uptake remains fragmented. The bottleneck is systemic: planning actors lack an integrated, decision-ready framework to translate solution portfolios into coherent pathways, leading to isolated interventions and carbon and resilience lock-in.

AURORA addresses this gap by delivering an integrated, multi-criteria planning framework aligning six dimensions (whole-life carbon, circularity, climate resilience, safety, economic feasibility and well-being), with SSH embedded in governance and decision processes. A structured catalogue of solution packages, supported by multi-dimensional archetype-based modelling within an interoperable GIS–BIM–MCDA digital environment, bridges planning demand and solution supply while enabling robust, resource-efficient assessment across scales. Through harmonised indicators and quantified WLC pathways benchmarked against business-as-usual scenarios, AURORA enables transparent scenario comparison and prioritisation.

Validation takes place in 3 real decision contexts, including systemic climate risk and post-disaster territories where high-pressure renovation and redevelopment decisions are shaping long-term building stock performance and adaptation capacity.The pilots cover 25 municipalities and +21,000 dwellings, embedding AURORA into regulatory, procurement and strategic instruments and generating transferable Transformation Plans under diverse conditions.

Replication is reinforced through open-access results and two follower partners initiating early uptake. Progressive stakeholder engagement and five additional territories strengthen transferability. By converting fragmented planning into coherent, resource-efficient and instrument-linked procedures, AURORA turns EU climate ambitions into scalable planning intelligence aligned with B4P and renovation goals.

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HORIZON-RIA - HORIZON Research and Innovation Actions

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Call for proposal

(opens in new window) HORIZON-CL5-2026-02

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Coordinator

INSTITUTO VALENCIANO DE LA EDIFICACION FUNDACION
Net EU contribution
€ 587 000,00
Address
CAMINO DE VERA S/N, EDIFICIO 1 B PUERTA R
46022 Valencia
Spain
Region
Este Comunitat Valenciana Valencia/València
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