IMPETUS: Dynamic Information Management Approach For The Implementation Of Climate Resilient Adaptation Packages In European Regions
As climate change progresses irrevocably, urgent measures are needed for building resilience and adaptive capacity. In the wake of the COVID-19 crisis, effective climate resilient regions cannot be built at expense of productive sectors, or without fair societal consensus. IMPETUS will develop and validate a coherent multi-scale, multi-level, cross-sectoral climate change adaptation framework to accelerate the transition towards a climate-neutral and sustainable economy.
IMPETUS Resilience Knowledge Boosters (RKBs) will build a robust Quintuple Helix stakeholders community (human dimension) complemented with reliable data and assessment methods to support decision and policy making (digital dimension). This will result in a community empowerment to co-design, assess, deploy, and monitor climate adaptation Innovation Packages, including R&I methodological, technological, governance, awareness, behavioural, economic, financial and pathway components. IMPETUS RKBs will be deployed and validated in all 7 EU biogeographical regions (Continental, Coastal, Mediterranean, Atlantic, Arctic, Boreal, Mountainous) covering all Key Community Systems, climate threats, and multi-level governance.
IMPETUS consortium is made of selected local, regional and national public authorities; R&D organisations; SMEs and large enterprises; and, international organisations, to build upon, upscale and demonstrate a wide range of R&D solutions. IMPETUS has a clear earmark to ensure continuity after the project lifetime through consolidated and interconnected RKBs and communities at different scales.
Duration: Start date 1 October 2021 – End date 30 September 2025
Budget: Total cost € 16 224 768,85 – EU contribution € 14 872 468,13
31 partners
Coordinated by FUNDACIO EURECAT, Spain
Partnership
Athens University of Economics and Business-ReSEEs Research laboratory on Socio-Economic and Environmental Sustainability
Principal Investigator
Prof. Phoebe Koundouri
Team Members
Prof. George Halkos, Dr. Conrad Landis, Dr. Georgios Papayiannis, Prof. Athanasios Yannacopoulos, Dr. Argyro Zisiadou
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 101037084