Periodic Reporting for period 1 - REGILIENCE (Resilience Strategies for Regions)
Période du rapport: 2021-11-01 au 2023-04-30
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 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).
• 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