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CLIMRES
RETIME
MAIA
MULTICLIMACT
MULTICARE
REGEN
CARMINE
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CLIMRES

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The CLIMRES project aims to promote “Leadership for Climate Resilient Buildings” by identifying building vulnerabilities and enhancing their resilience to disruptive events and changing conditions caused by climate change. CLIMRES solutions will be tested in three large-scale pilots in Spain, Greece, Italy, and Slovenia, evaluating their efficacy against heatwaves, extreme flooding, fires, and earthquakes. Additionally, there will be one multi-hazard replication multiplier pilot in France. Lessons from these pilots will shape a replication roadmap and a capacity-building program to train future leaders in climate-resilient building. CLIMRES will offer insights and guidance for building owners, policymakers, and stakeholders in climate resilience and sustainable development.

 

RETIME

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Natural and human-caused disasters, alongside uncontrolled urbanisation, pose risks for all building occupants. Vulnerable or older individuals, especially, may become exposed to extreme temperatures, might face difficulties in reaching safety during emergencies, and could be late reacting to public alerts for weather emergencies. The EU-funded RETIME project aims to develop innovative adaptation solutions to mitigate current and future risks in urban areas. These solutions include a data-driven tool, a sensor-based alert system, a digital building twin, a digital Building Renovation Passport, and a Resilience Knowledge Hub and Decision-Support platform. The project will prioritise these solutions based on specific architectural and societal contexts in pilot areas located in Estonia, Portugal and Slovakia.

 

MAIA

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MAIA will act as an impact multiplier by providing social structures, technological and outreach activities to accompany, potentiate and help maximise the impact of climate research projects funded under Horizon Europe. MAIA constitutes the response from a group of coordinators and core partners from seven H2020 precursor projects in climate change research (BINGO, BRIGAID, CLARITY, Connecting Nature, DRIVER+, PLACARD and RESCCUE). In these projects, driven by the EC’s advice to identify synergies and spark collaboration, we liaised and detected a clear need for increased connectivity and a more robust approach to synergies management as means to unlock more meaningful and impact-oriented interactions.

 

MULTICLIMACT

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MULTICLIMACT is a European project that aims to develop a mainstreamed framework and toolkit to support public stakeholders and citizens in assessing and enhancing the resilience of the built environment and its people at multiple scales – buildings (including cultural heritage), urban areas, and territories – against locally relevant climate-related and natural hazards. It integrates a multidisciplinary approach, considering socio-economic, engineering, climatic, and life dimensions, and includes 18 cost-effective, easy-to-implement solutions: design methods, materials, and digital tools. MULTICLIMACT also introduces a resilience scorecard and aligns with international and European initiatives, showcasing its methodology through four diverse case studies to ensure both local relevance and scalability.

 

MULTICARE

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The current building stock is particularly vulnerable because it has limited or no capacity to adapt and recover from extreme events thereby leading to building failures that cause severe socio-economic losses and adversely affecting the health and wellbeing of people. Recent scientific and technological advances in the construction industry provide timely solutions for improving the resilience for specific single hazards, but they are often not cost effective, rarely eco-friendly and nearly never address the multiple hazards present in many locations. MULTICARE will address this challenge directly by developing new multi-criteria decision-support frameworks and providing plug & play technological and digital solutions for improving the resilience of the built environment in a cost-effective, reliable and sustainable manner. The technological solutions consist of multi-functional low-carbon resilient technologies embedded in modular and prefabricated construction for the next generation of high performance and smart buildings, characterized by enhanced safety, energy efficiency, environmental-sustainability, improved quality of life, circularity, and scalability for a broad range of natural events and end-user.

 

REGEN

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In the face of escalating socio-economic disparities and the thread of climate change, European cities grapple with challenges. Ageing infrastructure, inefficient energy systems and unsustainable urban planning exacerbate environmental degradation. In this context, the EU-funded REGEN project aims to decarbonise European neighbourhoods by employing a multifaceted toolbox powered by digital technologies and sustainability assessments. 

 

CARMINE

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CARMINE is an EU-funded Horizon Europe project that develops a knowledge-based framework to address climate adaptation and mitigation challenges across eight representative metropolitan regions of Europe. The project responds to the growing frequency and severity of climate and weather extremes by creating actionable tools, decision-support services, and science-based roadmaps that strengthen multi-level climate governance from local communities to European-level decision-making. Through close collaboration with stakeholders, policymakers, and regional authorities, CARMINE integrates high-resolution data, stakeholder engagement, and Digital Twin use cases to co-produce locally tailored solutions that bridge the gap between science and practice. Aligned with the EU Mission on Adaptation to Climate Change, the project addresses key barriers such as limited decision-making knowledge, slow adaptation uptake, and fragmented implementation while developing early warning and disaster risk management systems. Focusing on a 2030-2035 timeframe with perspectives extending to 2050, CARMINE aims to connect over 40 communities by 2027 and ensure that climate action is equitable, effective, and scalable. The project ultimately contributes to the EU's goal of achieving climate resilience by 2030 through cross-sectoral frameworks and enhanced community resilience.