Objective
It is presently acknowledged and scientifically proven than climate related hazards have the potential to substantially affect the lifespan and effectiveness or even destroy of European Critical Infrastructures (CI), particularly the energy, transportation sectors, buildings, marine and water management infrastructure with devastating impacts in EU appraising the social and economic losses. The main strategic objective of EU-CIRCLE is to move towards infrastructure network(s) that is resilient to today’s natural hazards and prepared for the future changing climate. Furthermore, modern infrastructures are inherently interconnected and interdependent systems ; thus extreme events are liable to lead to ‘cascade failures’.
EU-CIRCLE’s scope is to derive an innovative framework for supporting the interconnected European Infrastructure’s resilience to climate pressures, supported by an end-to-end modelling environment where new analyses can be added anywhere along the analysis workflow and multiple scientific disciplines can work together to understand interdependencies, validate results, and present findings in a unified manner providing an efficient “Best of Breeds” solution of integrating into a holistic resilience model existing modelling tools and data in a standardised fashion.
It, will be open & accessible to all interested parties in the infrastructure resilience business and having a confirmed interest in creating customized and innovative solutions. It will be complemented with a webbased portal.The design principles, offering transparency and greater flexibility, will allow potential users to introduce fully tailored solutions and infrastructure data, by defining and implementing customised impact assessment models, and use climate / weather data on demand.
Field of science
- /engineering and technology/environmental engineering/natural resource management/water management
- /natural sciences/earth and related environmental sciences/physical geography/natural disaster
- /social sciences/other social sciences/social sciences interdisciplinary/sustainable development
- /natural sciences/earth and related environmental sciences/atmospheric sciences/climatology/climatic changes
Programme(s)
Call for proposal
H2020-DRS-2014
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Funding Scheme
RIA - Research and Innovation action











Coordinator
15341 Agia Paraskevi
Greece
Participants (20)
80686 Munchen
0313 Oslo
EX4 4QJ Exeter
Participation ended
81-225 Gdynia
38130 Echirolles
15233 Halandri
13120 Gardanne
16129 Genova
10000 Zagreb
CF24 2SA Cardiff
80539 Munchen
1516 Nicosia
10177 Athina
M5 4WT Salford
10000 Zagreb
2064 Lefkosia
TQ1 3DR Torquay
15500 Holargos, Athens
10410 Velika Gorica
HD1 3DH Huddersfield