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Climate_CRICES

Project overview

Increasing Climate Change Resilience in Central Europe

Huge quantities of environmental and meteorological data are already available both within public institutions and from open sources. But how to make sense of all the data to improve public responses to heatwaves, droughts, floods and reduce their impact on biodiversity? The Climate_CRICES project enhances the capacity of public authorities to manage climate change effects projected by the data. A dashboard visualises available data and will be further tested and rolled out to policy makers. In addition, a joint strategy developed by the project helps them to better use those data.

2,29m €

Project Budget

80%

of the Budget is funded by ERDF

Layer 1

7

Countries

8

Regions

9

Partners

3

Pilots

Duration

Start date

End date

Project progress

36%

Project partnership

Project partners

Italia (IT)

Lead partner

Veneto Region

ICT and Digital Agenda Department Environment Department
Address
Via Pacinotti 4
30175 Mestre-Venezia
Country
Italy (IT)
Web
www.regione.veneto.it

Project partner

REGIONAL DEPARTMENT OF TERRITORIAL SAFETY
Address
Via Fiorenzo Tomea, 5, 32100 Belluno BL 5
32100 BELLUNO
Country
Italy (IT)
Web
https://www.arpa.veneto.it/
Total partner budget
176,500 €
R&D Unit
Address
Corso Unione Sovietica 216
10134 Torino
Country
Italy (IT)
Web
www.csipiemonte.it/en
Total partner budget
293,824 €
Center for Energy and Environmental Technology
Address
Steinamangerstraße 21
7423 Pinkafeld
Country
Austria (AT)
Web
https://www.forschung-burgenland.at
Total partner budget
346,202 €
International Department
Address
Kórház u. 6-12.
1033 Budapest
Country
Hungary (HU)
Web
www.kdmfu.hu
Total partner budget
201,830 €
N/A
Address
Andrije Žaje 10
10000 Zagreb
Country
Croatia (HR)
Web
https://regea.org/
Total partner budget
291,720 €
Built Environment - Resources and Environmental Risks
Address
Weberplatz 1
01217 Dresden
Country
Germany (DE)
Web
www.ioer.de
Total partner budget
331,910 €
Faculty of Environmental Engineering and Geodesy
Address
Grunwaldzka St. 55
50-357 Wrocław
Country
Poland (PL)
Web
https://upwr.edu.pl/en
Total partner budget
182,421 €
Institute for Economic and Environmental Policy
Address
Moskevská 54
40096 Ústí nad Labem
Country
Czechia (CZ)
Web
www.ujep.cz
Total partner budget
127,146 €

Roadmap

1

Challenge

Climate_CRICES project, a groundbreaking initiative dedicated to enhancing climate change resilience across Central Europe. Local and regional authorities lack sufficient capacity to manage projected climate change effects and to analyse and plan climate mitigation and adaptations measures.

2

Specific problem

Regions, sectoral bodies and research institutes in Austria, Germany, Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic, Croatia and Italy need to increase resilience to the impacts of climate change on rural and urban areas through more efficient and accurate analysis and forecasting.

3

Idea

To achieve effective climate change planning, Climate_CRICES partners are collaborating to develop a common strategy that ensures access to standardized, cross-border data. This includes defining shared criteria, creating a multilingual, user-friendly dashboard, and using data to enhance resilience, knowledge, and management of climate change impacts.

4

The Solution

The solution is the Climate_CRICES data dashboard. This dashboard will: • Analyze and visualize environmental and climate data to improve climate change projections for regional planning. • Be tested with policymakers and stakeholders to assess its effectiveness in forecasting climate impacts and contributing to regional climate management plans. • Integrate data from partners’ platforms and innovative sources, ensuring a trans-border perspective via a dedicated landing page. • Support regional authorities with capacity building and cooperation activities, enhancing their ability to manage climate adaptation plans. • Serve as a model for climate adaptation management across Central Europe.

Events

Pilot actions

Outputs

Climate_CRICES strategy

The strategy will define the contribution of data to improve the knowledge and capability of regional authorities to manage climate change in their area and to elaborate reliable projections particularly focusing on heat and drought, shortage of water and flooding, biodiversity. To implement the Strategy, a data-driven dashboard will be available for public authorities to support their projections and to allow for multi-lingual cross border climate information in Central Europe.
Type of output: Strategies and action plans

Increasing the cooperation among actors for better climate change effects' forecasts

Partners and ASPs will cooperate to support the improvement of climate change projections with the support of data. Climate change effects monitored are: a) heat and drought; b) shortage of water and flooding; c) biodiversity. The Climate_CRICES network will continue working after the end of the project focusing on new topics to be explored and connected with "data" and climate change.
Type of output: Strategies and action plans

Solution to increase the capability for climate changes' projecions concerning heat and drought's effects

One guideline on how to improve climate change projections concerning the heat and drought's effects with 6 Addendums for Veneto Region (LP01 and PP02); Piedmont Region (PP03); Burgenland (PP04-FB); Central Danube Priority Area (PP05); North-West Croatia (PP06); South-West Poland (PP08), North-West Czech republic (PP09) and Germany (PP07) for Neisse river. The Addendum and the guideline will be uptaken by PPs and ASPs to proceed the climate change projections.
Type of output: Solutions

Solution to increase the capability for climate changes' projections concerning water shortage and flooding's effects

One manual to improve climate change projections concerning shortage of water and flooding with 5 Addendums for 1 joint pilot area (Germany, Poland and Czech Republic) concerning Neisse river; local pilots in Croatia (Zagreb area); Austria (Forschung Burgenland); Italy (Piedmont); Hungary (Central Danube Priority Area), The manual and the addenda will be uptaken by PPs and ASPs to integrate regional climate changes' projections.
Type of output: Strategies and action plans

Solution to increase the capability for climate changes' projections concerning the effects on the biodiversity

One guideline on how to manage data for projections concerning the impact of the climate change on the biodiversity with 4 Addendum for Croatia (Zagreb area); Austria (Forschung Burgenland); Hungary (Central Danube Priority Area) and one joint area for PL, CZ, DE for the Neisse river will be validated and uptaken by PPs and ASPs into the climate changes'projections.
Type of output: Strategies and action plans

Climate_CRICES Action plan

The Action Plan will implement the Climate_CRICES strategy: a) datasets provision and maintenance to feed the dashboard; b) capacity building activities to increase knowledge of regional authorities on the exploitation of data for the climate changes' forecasts; c) updates of the dashboard and its integration into the regional data-systems; d) enlargement of the topics for the climate change's projections. PPs and ASP committed for its implementation.
Type of output: Solutions

Climate_CRICES Dashboard

Output description The dashboard tested to elaborate the Addendum, will be assessed and validated as solution to support local government to manage climate changes with projections supported by data. The dashboard will be released to Partners, ASPs and other stakeholders to continue working on the monitoring and development of forecasts concerning the climate changes effects. A guideline for its functioning, for the integration into regional forecasts' systems will be developed. PPs will up take it.
Type of output: Solutions

Project documents

Climate_CRICES

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Project Contacts

Project Manager

Manola Tegon
Phone: +39 0412792245

Finance Manager

Alice Mantoan
Phone: +39 0412792219

Communication Manager

Inez Fekete
Phone: +36 30 114 8915