SMARTER is a Horizon Europe project advancing systemic climate adaptation through collaboration and co-design with local communities and municipalities.
SMARTER's nine climate adaptation laboratories (CAL) collaborate with local experts, stakeholders, policymakers, and communities to identify regional climate risks and their broader impacts on communities and various sectors. Together, we are developing tools and nature-based solutions for systemic climate adaptation, tailored to local needs.
Goals
The project develops methods and tools that support a systemic approach to building climate resilience by engaging different target groups and actors across sectors. The goal is to compile an online toolbox for systemic climate adaptation, consisting of synergistic, cross-sectoral assessed adaptation solutions, user-friendly climate resilience indicators, and a standardized framework for evaluating adaptation solutions.
The toolbox supports climate adaptation decision-making in regions at all stages (planning, implementation, evaluation, and monitoring). Its contents will be integrated into regional climate adaptation and mitigation plans.
Implementation
SMARTER is testing and implementing nature-based solutions such as urban green spaces, water retention basins and ecological corridors. These solutions will benefit people’s wellbeing and support tourism, housing, healthcare, education, transport and other economic sectors, and will be designed to complement other engineered solutions, in order to achieve each region’s climate adaptation goals.
SMARTER will use modelling tools to understand the links and similarities between different sectors and regions, to see the likely impacts of interventions and where else in Europe they could be applied with similar results. Through new frameworks and approaches developed during the project, SMARTER’s work will extend beyond the Climate Action Labs by encouraging and facilitating collaboration across Europe and other projects.
The tools developed throughout the SMARTER project will be collated in an easy-to-use online toolbox. This will include an interactive map, roadmaps for achieving climate resilience, and a portfolio of climate adaptation solutions.
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Funding
This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 101212794.
Partners
- Athena – Research Center for Innovation in Information, Communication and Knowledge Technologies
- Central Mining Institute – National Research Institute (Poland)
- City of Kuopio (Finland)
- City of Ostend (Belgium)
- City of Tampere (Finland)
- Deltares Foundation
- Flemish Institute for Technological Research Ltd. (VITO)
- Gdańsk Water Ltd.
- ICLEI European Secretariat Ltd.
- Lisbon Metropolitan Area
- North Holland
- NOVA University Lisbon
- OPPLA European Economic Interest Grouping
- Province of Friesland
- Region of Western Greece
- Tampereen tilapalvelut Oy (Finland)
- Wageningen Research Foundation (Wageningen University & Research)
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