Improving ClimAte Resilience of crItical Assets (ICARIA)

Description:

The EU-funded ICARIA project aims to enhance the resilience of critical assets and infrastructures to climate-related disasters. Given the increasing frequency and severity of such disasters, ICARIA employs asset-level modeling to understand direct and indirect impacts of complex, compound, and cascading disasters. The focus is on critical assets, infrastructures, housing, and natural land areas that were not originally designed to consider climate changes. The project implements innovative methods, climate scenario building, and multi-risk assessment approaches in the Barcelona Metropolitan Area, the South Aegean archipelago, and the Salzburg region in Austria. ICARIA assists risk owners in evaluating the costs and benefits of suitable, sustainable, and cost-effective adaptation solutions. The consortium, comprising 15 partners across 6 EU countries, with a multidisciplinary team involving technology centers, universities, private companies, and regional authorities. The project aims to maximize replication and outreach of its outcomes, fostering actions to benefit other regions beyond the project's scope.

 

Project information

Lead

CETAQUA, CENTRO TECNOLOGICO DEL AGUA, FUNDACION PRIVADA, Spain

Partners

AIGUES DE BARCELONA, EMPRESA METROPOLITANA DE GESTIO DEL CICLE INTEGRAL DE L'AIGUA SA, Spain

AQUATEC PROYECTOS PARA EL SECTOR DEL AGUA SA, Spain

UNDACION PARA LA INVESTIGACION DEL CLIMA, Spain        

FUNDACIO INSTITUT DE RECERCA DE L'ENERGIA DE CATALUNYA, Spain

NATIONAL CENTER FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH “DEMOKRITOS”, Greece

LABORATORIO NACIONAL DE ENGENHARIA CIVIL, Portugal

DRAXIS ENVIRONMENTAL SA, Greece

ETHNIKO KENTRO EREVNAS KAI TECHNOLOGIKIS ANAPTYXIS, Greece

UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI NAPOLI FEDERICO II, Italy

AIT AUSTRIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY GMBH, Austria

AREA METROPOLITANA DE BARCELONA, Spain

PERIFEREIA NOTIOU AIGAIOU, Greece

VERBUND ENERGY4BUSINESS GMBH, Austria

THE UNIVERSITY OF EXETER, United Kingdom