project website: https://climate-impetus.eu
IMPETUS
DYNAMIC INFORMATION MANAGEMENT APPROACH FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF CLIMATE RESILIENT ADAPTATION PACKAGES IN EUROPEAN REGIONS
Project summary
As climate change progresses irrevocably, urgent measures are needed for building resilience and adaptive capacity. In the wake of the COVID-19 crisis, effective climate resilient regions cannot be built at expense of productive sectors, or without fair societal consensus.
IMPETUS will develop and validate a coherent multi-scale, multi-level, cross- sectoral climate change adaptation framework to accelerate the transition towards a climate-neutral and sustainable economy.
IMPETUS consortium is made of selected local, regional and national public authorities; R&D organisations; SMEs and large enterprises; and international organisations, to build upon, upscale and demonstrate a wide range of R&D solutions. All in all, 32 project partners from 9 countries will test 15 technical and nature-based solutions in all 7 EU biogeographical regions (Continental, Coastal, Mediterranean, Atlantic, Arctic, Boreal, Mountainous).
The main innovative technical, nature-based, governance, financing and public engagement solutions developed by the project are:
- Creation of a data and intelligence space to help in the development of adaptation and mitigation strategies to climate change.
- Cost-effective and environmentally, economically and socially sustainable actions targeted to support key community systems such as water, agriculture, fisheries, infrastructure and health
- “Low regret” and scalable solutions co-designed and created with policy-makers, businesses and communities to help ensure their success.
- Identify, collect and upscale existing real-time territorial data, qualitative and quantitative knowledge and technical, ecological and socio-economic innovations necessary for robust and dynamic adaptation and resilience planning. (SDGs: 4, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 17)
Increase knowledge-sharing and awareness on climate change through the combination of modelling tools, advanced data analytics and high visualization. This will serve to create an adaptation platform between different regions to achieve a climate change open data space. (SDGs: 4, 5, 8, 9, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15, 17) - Deploy and upscale in the specific regions different technological and non-technological solutions to face specific climate change needs based on previous projects and regional strategies. The deployment and upscale of the solutions will be based on existing knowledge and already demonstrated beneficial innovations. (SDGs: 8, 9, 11, 13, 17)
- Development of IMPETUS Innovation Packages in 7 demo-sites covering the European bio-geographical regions, which will provide a horizontal methodology to share knowledge on climate adaption solutions and strategies. The demo-sites also represent different biophysical and ecological conditions, socio-economic and governance situations. (SDGs: 3, 4 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17) Boost alliance and coalitions with relevant Quintuple Helix stakeholders to co-create and co-design resilient innovations packages and dynamic adaptation pathways using existing monitoring data and social-innovations, governance strategies and existing knowledge about climate change. (SDGs: 4, 5, 9, 11, 13 16, 17)
- Promote and accelerate societal transformation through the development of open spaces to co-create and co- design with stakeholder’s climate-resilient adaptation solutions also supporting business to business. (SDGs: 9, 10, 11, 16, 17)
- Present IMPETUS innovation packages ready to be transferred to other areas and socio-ecological systems. Replicability and transferability will be ensured by: (i) robust and clear horizontal approach; (ii) development of guidelines for implementing and deploying the RKBs; (iii) shared and flexible methodology for the development of Adaptation Pathways; (iv) clear financing and economic schemes to make the framework autonomous; and (v) stakeholder and social innovation framework validated and demonstrated through the demo-sites. (SDGs: 8, 9, 10, 11)
This project addresses the European Commissions Call for Proposal:
Horizon 2020 Call: H2020-LC-GD-2020
(Building a low-carbon, climate resilient future: Research and innovation in support of the European Green Deal)
Duration: 48 months
Start Date: 01 Oct 2021
EU Contribution: 14.8M€ total
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1 (coordinator) |
FUNDACIO EURECAT |
ES |
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Nelen & Schuurmans B.V. |
Netherlands |
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3 |
KWB KOMPENTENTZZENTRUM WASSER BERLIN GEMEINNUTZIGE GMBH |
DE |
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4 |
NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS – NTUA |
EL |
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5 |
ACCADEMIA EUROPEA DI BOLZANO |
IT |
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6 |
UNIVERSITETET I TROMSOE – NORGES ARKTISKE UNIVERSITET |
NO |
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7 |
BALTIJAS VIDES FORUMS |
LV |
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8 |
MEDITERRANEAN AGRONOMIC INSTITUTE OF CHANIA |
EL |
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9 |
ATHENS UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS – RESEARCH CENTER |
EL |
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10 |
ETAIREIA YDREYSEOS KAI APOCHETEFSEOS PROTEYOYSIS ANONIMI ETAIREIA |
EL |
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11 |
MINISTRY OF ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY |
EL |
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12 |
Mantis Business Innovation Private Company |
EL |
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13 |
Departament de Territori i Sostenibilitat – Generalitat de Catalunya |
ES |
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14 |
UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI |
ES |
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15 |
UNIVERSITAT DE GIRONA |
ES |
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16 |
LOBELIA EARTH SL |
ES |
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17 |
KWR WATER B.V. |
NL |
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18 |
WATER & ENERGY INTELLIGENCE BV |
NL |
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19 |
SENATSVERWALTUNG FUER UMWELT, VERKEHR UND KLIMASCHUTZ |
DE |
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20 |
BERLINER WASSERBETRIEBE |
DE |
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21 |
GCF – GLOBAL CLIMATE FORUM EV |
DE |
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22 |
MOBYGIS SRL |
IT |
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23 |
UNIVERSITAET BERN |
CH |
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24 |
Consorzio dei Comuni BIM SARCA MINCIO GARDA |
IT |
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25 |
Cantina Toblino S.c.a. |
IT |
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26 |
Troms & Finnmark County Council |
NO |
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27 |
ZEMGALES PLANOSANAS REGIONS |
LV |
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28 |
JELGAVAS PASVALDIBAS OPERATIVAS INFORMACIJAS CENTRS |
LV |
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29 |
THETIS SPA |
IT |
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30 |
SDSN ASSOCIATION PARIS |
FR |
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31 |
UNION INTERNATIONALE POUR LA CONSERVATION DE LA NATURE ET DE SES RESSOURCES |
CH |
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32 |
EUROPEAN SCIENCE COMMUNICATION INSTITUTE (ESCI) GGMBH |
DE |
Project Coordinator: Carlo Jaeger
Project Admin: Beatrix Opolka
