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The European Commission funds research and innovation projects to support the creation and better dispersion of excellent knowledge and technologies. Horizon Europe is the EU’s key funding programme for research and innovation until 2027, taking over from Horizon 2020 (2014-2020). Horizon Europe incorporates research and innovation missions to increase the effectiveness of funding by pursuing clearly defined targets; most relevant to Climate-ADAPT is the Mission Area: Adaptation to climate change.
Under the topic Climate-resilient Innovation Packages for EU regions, 4 projects have been funded to support the Mission on Adaptation by testing, evaluating and scaling-up a range of adaptation solutions with the aim to trigger societal transformations among key community systems that are central to resilience building and sustainable growth. ARSINOE, IMPETUS, TRANSFORMAR and REGILIENCE will serve as early facilitators in pre-identifying and upscaling the most promising cross-sectoral solutions at a regional scale.
The complete catalogue of EU-funded Horizon Europe, Horizon 2020 and Research FP7 Environment Programme projects can be found in the CORDIS database. Furthermore, aggregated results from European research projects on Climate Change and Environment are presented in thematic articles that are available in Results Packs on CORDIS.
Several other Horizon Europe and Horizon 2020 projects have a specific focus on climate change adaptation. The objectives, methods and outcomes are in line with the aims of the EU Adaptation Strategy: to build a climate resilient society by improving knowledge of climate impacts and adaptation solutions; by stepping up adaptation planning and climate risk assessments; by accelerating adaptation action; and by helping to strengthen climate resilience globally.
Examples of projects proposing actions in pursuit of smarter, more systemic and faster adaptation are presented here. These projects were selected based on a systematic screening of the CORDIS database identifying ongoing and recently completed climate change adaptation projects in Europe.
Smarter Adaptation
Costs and benefits of adaptation: B4EST, COACCH, RESCCUE, SOCLIMPACT
Using smarter tools and methods: CASCADES, CLIMED-FRUIT, CLINT, HARMONIA, INVITE, KNOWING, PLACARD, PLOTO, PROTECT, REACHOUT
More systemic adaptation
General CCIVA methodologies: ASFORCLIC, CERES, ClimeFish, HYPERION
Nature based solutions: FutureMARES
Faster adaptation
Explicit focus on implementation: CLARITY, ENBEL, HYDRALAB-PLUS, IMPETUS, SINCERE, TransformAr
Search the Climate-ADAPT database for additional adaptation focused research and knowledge projects funded by EU framework programmes, as well as EU transnational cooperation programmes and other international and national programmes.
Inspiring Climate-ADAPT use cases
Discover how the knowledge displayed in this page has inspired actors working at different levels of governance to develop tailor-made solutions in different policy and practice contexts.
- Turkiye: Using the Adaptation Support Tool as a comprehensive and systematic checklist for developing a project proposal to revise the National Adaptation Strategy and Action Plan of Turkiye
- Greece: Supporting the preparation of EU LIFE Climate Action funding proposals in Greece at national, regional and local levels by using the Climate-ADAPT database, adaptation options and research projects
- Health sector in England: Using Climate-ADAPT information to create a risk and adaptation plan for the health sector in England
The biennial European Climate Change Adaptation (ECCA) conference is conducted by projects that have received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Framework Programme. Five ECCA conferences has so far been convened. See the ECCA webpage on Climate-ADAPT for information on the conferences and projects.
Booklet on the EU research contribution to IPCC Working Group II on Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability (2022).
Booklet on the research, science and innovation of EU projects on climate change adaptation (2018).
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