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Resilience, sustainability and safety for communities across Europe (MULTICLIMACT)
Especially in recent decades the frequency of extreme events such as floods, earthquakes and severe heat waves has increased and affected European communities. There is an urgent need to plan, design and retrofit the built environment to adapt to current and future risks.
In a rapidly changing world where climate change and localised natural hazards pose an increasing threat to our cities and infrastructures, MULTICLIMACT is a beacon of progress and hope. The project aims to develop innovative strategies and technologies and a toolkit of 18 reliable and easy-to-implement methods and digital solutions to improve the resilience of our urban landscapes.
The toolkit is being tested at four pilot sites in Italy, Spain, Latvia and the Netherlands. The sites all have different climatic conditions and are therefore vulnerable to different types of climate-related environmental disasters.
The main objectives of the MULTICLIMACT project include innovative risk assessment and prediction, interdisciplinary collaboration and community engagement and education. The project is dedicated to promoting public awareness and engagement and empowering communities to take an active role in protecting their built environment.
The European Union-funded project is coordinated by RINA CONSULTING SPA, Genova, Italy and involves a consortium of leading experts and institutions from nine European countries. As a project partner, Steinbeis Europa Zentrum is responsible for communication and public relations. For this purpose, in addition to the placement of scientific publications, a wide-ranging social media campaign will be implemented, multilingual communication material will be developed and activities such as web seminars and networking events will be carried out.
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UnivPM main role in the project:
Within the framework of MULTICLIMACT project, UNIVPM develops innovative sustainable materials and measurement methods for improving the resilience of the built environment towards natural hazards, considering in particular seismic events. Moreover, also measurement strategies for the assessment of the occupants’ wellbeing in the built environment will be developed, considering both physiological and environmental sensors and also digital technologies.
Website: https://multiclimact.eu/
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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/multiclimact-project/about/
Keywords:
built environment, infrastructure, climate hazard, environmental disaster, resilience, resistance
Videos
MULTICLIMACT Video
Project ITHACA: Innovative and sustainable TecHnologies for reducing critical raw mAterials dependence for Cleaner transportation Applications – http://www.crm-extreme.eu/WP/
The solutions proposed in ITHACA originate from networking and scientific activities developed thanks to the CA15102 Action CRM-EXTREME, which has seed the initial catalytic nucleus contributing to the success of two related H2020 projects, MONAMIX and EQUINOX, and of a bilateral Greece-Israel industrial R&D project, Euro6cat.
The scientific focus of ITHACA will be on the assessment of processes for:
The aim of ITHACA is to bring together significant research (critical mass) expertise from all over Europe in the area of materials manufacturing and recycling in order to create a new research community able to identify and address the challenges in sustainable processes aimed at reducing CRMs in transportation applications. The creation of ITHACA Network will serve to capture and understand the current materials manufacturing scene and pump-prime activities in this area to move the sector forward.
ULTIMATE (indUstry water-utiLiTy symbIosis for a sMarter wATEr society) promuoverà la cooperazione sinergica tra l’industria e il settore idrico per un funzionamento intelligente ed efficiente dei processi relativi all’acqua. Ciò avverrà attraverso l’istituzione di simbiosi (“Water Smart Industrial Symbiosis” (WSIS)) tra diversi settori e fornitori di servizi, con l’obiettivo di utilizzare e riutilizzare congiuntamente acqua, acque reflue e tutte le risorse recuperabili. Diversi settori industriali (petrolchimico e delle biotecnologie), così come il settore agroalimentare e quello della produzione di bevande parteciperanno ad ULTIMATE. Tali industrie insieme a fornitori di servizi e istituzioni scientifiche svilupperanno e/o indagheranno e valuteranno 36 tecnologie in 9 casi studio. Inoltre, ULTIMATE svilupperà nuovi modelli di business basati su sistemi di simbiosi. In ULTIMATE, UNIVPM sarà responsabile per l’innovazione e i diritti di proprietà intellettuale, monitorando e documentando l’avanzamento delle tecnologie sulla scala TRL e controllando le possibilità di brevetto e le opportunità di applicazione e sfruttamento delle nuove tecnologie. Inoltre, UNIVPM sarà il leader per il recupero di materia del gruppo tecnologico trasversale (cross-cutting technology group – CTG) e coordinerà il caso studio italiano (CS3).
ULTIMATE è finanziato dall’Unione Europea nel programma Horizon 2020 (ID accordo di sovvenzione: 869318) ed ha una durata di 48 mesi. Il Water Research Institute (KWR) dai Paesi Bassi ha il coordinamento del consorzio, costituito da 27 partner (istituti di ricerca, servizi pubblici e PMI).
Il progetto Life Blue Lakes intende affrontare il problema delle microplastiche nei laghi attraverso una serie di azioni di governance, formazione, informazione e sensibilizzazione indirizzate a istituzioni, stakeholders e cittadinanza.
Le principali azioni di progetto saranno realizzate nei laghi di Garda, Bracciano, Trasimeno e Castreccioni in Italia e in quelli di Costanza e Chiemsee in Germania. Altre comunità lacustri italiane ed europee saranno coinvolte nelle azioni di promozione e diffusione di buone pratiche.
Nello specifico, gli obiettivi di Life Blue Lakes sono:
Il progetto è reso possibile dal cofinanziamento della Commissione Europea attraverso il programma Life e con il contributo di PlasticsEurope.
Sito web: https://lifebluelakes.eu/
Waste management (WM) represents a cornerstone in the effort to preserve Mediterranean citiesand guarantee a healthy living environment for communities. Municipal WM, which represents a big challenge for the area, is directly affected by population growth and concentration, urbanization and tourism. The growth limits faced in the MED cities call for smart, sustainable, and inclusive urban development. Moreover, agriculture has become of great interest in findingnew answers for how cities can master recent social, economic, and ecological challenges.
DECOST project aims to develop a new framework of WM building a closed loop system of organic waste valorisation integrating decentralised Home & Community Composting systems with Urban Agriculture. Innovative results in waste valorisation must lead to a broader approachin terms of sustainability; waste urban planning shall be viable from an environmental/economicperspective but also bearable and equitable from a social/environmental and social/economic points of view. These goals can only be achieved by using a people-centred approach, empowering civil society and increasing institutional capacity building.
DECOST is based on the participation of a wide range of actors (Waste Agencies, Municipalities and Research Centres) of 6 different countries, 3 of them EU Mediterranean Countries (Spain, Italy and Greece) and 3 South-East Mediterranean Countries (Palestine, Jordan and Israel) resulting in an international partnership that brings different backgrounds and expertise and are directly engaged in the local governance processes. Integrated Municipal Solid Waste Management Plans and pilot initiatives will be implemented at 4 different municipalities (Spain, Italy, Jordan and Palestine) aiming to (i) reduce food waste and valorize 1,500-2,000 t organic waste/year, (ii) use the produced compost in urban agriculture projects, (iii) create green jobs through DECOST teams (iv) train staff of public administrations (v) use IT tools and mobile Appsfor citizen science and engagement and (vi) address municipal sustainability at long-term strategiclevel.
Website: enicbcmed.eu/projects/decost