Periodic Reporting for period 1 - REGILIENCE (Resilience Strategies for Regions)
Berichtszeitraum: 2021-11-01 bis 2023-04-30
The effects of climate change are becoming more prevalent; they cause environmental degradation, economic losses, and harm to people's health and well-being throughout Europe and the world, underscoring the necessity of developing adaptation strategies in addition to mitigation ones. With the goal of making Europe climate resilient by 2050, the European Commission established a new strategy on adaptation to climate change in 2021 as one of the EU Missions. This strategy offers guidance and calls for cooperation and practical solutions. Communities and regions are important catalysts for driving this transformation, but they require advice to support and help economies and inhabitants adapt to climate change.
REGILIENCE is committed to supporting the European Green Deal and the EU Mission “Adaptation to Climate Change” by fostering the adoption of regional climate resilience development pathways. The project develops, compiles, shares and promotes tools and scientific knowledge to support European regions in identifying and addressing their climate-related risks. We work closely with sister projects, such as ARSINOE, IMPETUS and TransformAr to enhance the capacity of 7 focus regions to tackle the unavoidable impacts of climate change.
REGILIENCE supports communities, cities, and regions in their efforts towards building climate-resilient pathways. To make this support effective, REGILIENCE organises a variety of activities such as events, workshops, trainings, peer-to-peer mentorship, helpdesk, informational and communication material in various channels and actions to inspire policymakers, organisations, and individuals to become part of the change. Additionally, the platform enables them to share experiences, learn from the best practices, provide guidance, and disseminate knowledge and tools in achieving the best possible outcomes for communities and regions impacted by climate change.
REGILIENCE is committed to supporting the European Green Deal and the EU Mission “Adaptation to Climate Change” by fostering the adoption of regional climate resilience development pathways. The project develops, compiles, shares and promotes tools and scientific knowledge to support European regions in identifying and addressing their climate-related risks. We work closely with sister projects, such as ARSINOE, IMPETUS and TransformAr to enhance the capacity of 7 focus regions to tackle the unavoidable impacts of climate change.
REGILIENCE supports communities, cities, and regions in their efforts towards building climate-resilient pathways. To make this support effective, REGILIENCE organises a variety of activities such as events, workshops, trainings, peer-to-peer mentorship, helpdesk, informational and communication material in various channels and actions to inspire policymakers, organisations, and individuals to become part of the change. Additionally, the platform enables them to share experiences, learn from the best practices, provide guidance, and disseminate knowledge and tools in achieving the best possible outcomes for communities and regions impacted by climate change.
The overall objective of REGILIENCE is to foster the adoption and wide dissemination of regional climate resilience pathways, sharing the project’s expertise and knowledge, as well as the solutions from the sister projects ARSINOE, TransformAr and IMPETUS, and other sources.
The project follows a demand-driven approach and especially targets 7 focus regions in Europe, which are: Comunitat Valenciana (Spain), Comunidad Autónoma de la Región de Murcia (Spain), Regão Autónoma da Madeira (Portugal), La Réunion (France), Jadranska Hrvatska Istrian County Area (Croatia), Yuzhen tsentralen (Bulgaria), Central Macedonia (Greece).
In the first 18 months of the project, REGILIENCE conducted a needs assessment survey to gather input from European regions, culminating in the implementation of 2 Open Training Sessions as well as the selection of the 7 focus regions and the means of support. REGILIENCE also developed:
· Insights for transformative pathways by interviewing 7 selected cases and organising 4 workshops (2 EU level and 2 regional level) to discuss topics related to the success and failure theory and practice.
· The self-assessment tool to spot risks of maladaptation, to help the staff of the competent regional authority/ies for climate adaptation or of other departments and organisations to avoid or reduce maladaptation risks in the planning phase of adaptation actions.
· Funding opportunities database that gathers information on 24 funding opportunities for regional climate resilience.
· The climate Resilience post, a joint newsletter in collaboration with the sister projects that highlights relevant topics on climate resilience and projects’ initiatives.
Furthermore, with the 3 sister projects, REGILIENCE has strengthened synergies for the indicators set, joint maps, and aligned communication and dissemination efforts. REGILIENCE partners have delivered 8 joint sessions with the sister projects and other initiatives. Likewise, REGILIENCE has communicated about the European Green Deal and promoted climate change resilience in its social media channels, newsletter, and articles (including 8 Opinion Articles published on the project’s website).
The project follows a demand-driven approach and especially targets 7 focus regions in Europe, which are: Comunitat Valenciana (Spain), Comunidad Autónoma de la Región de Murcia (Spain), Regão Autónoma da Madeira (Portugal), La Réunion (France), Jadranska Hrvatska Istrian County Area (Croatia), Yuzhen tsentralen (Bulgaria), Central Macedonia (Greece).
In the first 18 months of the project, REGILIENCE conducted a needs assessment survey to gather input from European regions, culminating in the implementation of 2 Open Training Sessions as well as the selection of the 7 focus regions and the means of support. REGILIENCE also developed:
· Insights for transformative pathways by interviewing 7 selected cases and organising 4 workshops (2 EU level and 2 regional level) to discuss topics related to the success and failure theory and practice.
· The self-assessment tool to spot risks of maladaptation, to help the staff of the competent regional authority/ies for climate adaptation or of other departments and organisations to avoid or reduce maladaptation risks in the planning phase of adaptation actions.
· Funding opportunities database that gathers information on 24 funding opportunities for regional climate resilience.
· The climate Resilience post, a joint newsletter in collaboration with the sister projects that highlights relevant topics on climate resilience and projects’ initiatives.
Furthermore, with the 3 sister projects, REGILIENCE has strengthened synergies for the indicators set, joint maps, and aligned communication and dissemination efforts. REGILIENCE partners have delivered 8 joint sessions with the sister projects and other initiatives. Likewise, REGILIENCE has communicated about the European Green Deal and promoted climate change resilience in its social media channels, newsletter, and articles (including 8 Opinion Articles published on the project’s website).
Given that REGILIENCE aims for coordination and support ‘Climate-resilient Innovation Packages for EU regions’, the main expected impact is to foster coordination and coherence between the different call-related projects and related initiatives as well as to boost replication and impact of these. Our impact targets are the following:
• 7 regions (or provinces, counties or equivalent) co-design climate resilience pathways, supported by REGILIENCE in addition to the regions targeted by the Innovation Packages, as a previous step to sign a climate resilience contract.
• 10 successful regional climate resilience pathways are used as inspiring examples by other regions.
• 50 institutions, projects or initiatives are actively coordinating or cooperating during the project period.
• 10% increase in the number of users of knowledge platforms compared to previous system.
• 20 % increase in usage of knowledge platforms compared to previous system.
• 600 citizens have improved their knowledge and capacities on climate resilience pathways.
• 20,000 citizens are more aware and engaged with climate resilience
• 7 regions (or provinces, counties or equivalent) co-design climate resilience pathways, supported by REGILIENCE in addition to the regions targeted by the Innovation Packages, as a previous step to sign a climate resilience contract.
• 10 successful regional climate resilience pathways are used as inspiring examples by other regions.
• 50 institutions, projects or initiatives are actively coordinating or cooperating during the project period.
• 10% increase in the number of users of knowledge platforms compared to previous system.
• 20 % increase in usage of knowledge platforms compared to previous system.
• 600 citizens have improved their knowledge and capacities on climate resilience pathways.
• 20,000 citizens are more aware and engaged with climate resilience