Our work in the region
Assessing the risk of catastrophes and climate extremes is highly intertwined with estimating the direct and indirect costs of climate impacts. To bridge gaps between single sectors and nations on the way to a climate smart transformation, integrating adaptation and mitigation measures into robust solutions for planning and decision-making is needed. Trade-offs and synergies between different measures need to be discussed by all stakeholders.
In addition to manage these socio-economic transformation, natural systems need to be managed in a sustainable manner under climatic change. Resilient forest ecosystems set the foundation for sustainable forest products e.g. for building with engineered timber and maintaining key forests functions and services such as natural carbon sinks. Likewise, viticulture practices will change in the face of climate change and modelling different management scenarios will help informed decision-making.
Selected projects
- OrganicYieldsUP Improving yields in organic cropping systems; funded by EU; 2024-2028
- Re-Livestock Facilitating Innovations for Resilient Livestock Farming Systems; funded by EU; 2022-2027
- LegumES Valorizing and balancing the ecosystem service benefits offered by legumes, and legume-based cropped systems; funded by EU; 2024-2027
- DIRECTED Disaster Risk Reduction; funded by EU; 2022-2026
- LOCALISED decarbonisation pathways for citizens, local administrations and businesses to inform and support mitigation and adaptation action; funded by EU; 2021-2025
- MonteVitis Integrating a comprehensive European approach for climate change mitigation and adaptation in Montenegro viticulture; funded by EU; 2023-2025
- TransformAr Accelerating and upscaling transformational adaptation in Europe: demonstration of water-related innovation packages; funded by EU; 2021-2025
- DIALOGUES Inclusive dialogues towards an operational concept of energy citizenship to support the Energy Union; funded by EU; 2021-2024
- EUCityCalc European City Calculator tool to support cities in planning towards climate neutrality with prospective modelling; funded by EU; 2021-2024
- GreenPlantFood Green technology for plant-based food; funded by Norwegian Research Council; 2021-2024
- CASCADES-RD2 Cascading Climate risks: towards Adaptive and resilient European Societies; funded by EU; 2019- 2023
- CROSSDRO Cross-sectoral impact assessment of droughts in complex European basins; funded by BMBF; 2019-2023
- CURE Copernicus for Urban Resilience in Europe; funded by EU; 2020-2023
- MAPPY Multisectoral analysis of climate and land use change impacts on pollinators, plant diversity and crops yields; funded by BMBF; 2019-2023
