Imagine trying to build a flood wall in a neighborhood where half the people hate the plan. Instead of guessing what they want, this project created a set of tools to let locals help design the solutions. It's like a community workshop on steroids that turns public complaints into a practical blueprint for survival.
Climate adaptation policies often fail because they are designed by experts without local buy-in, leading to public resistance and project failure. This creates a gap between technical necessity and societal acceptance.
A multilingual Climate Assembly Portal and a Toolbox for co-designing adaptation strategies using citizen science and design thinking.
If you are a municipal consultancy firm dealing with public protests against new green infrastructure — this project developed a Toolbox that uses design thinking to resolve tensions and increase policy acceptance. This helps avoid costly project delays by ensuring the community is on board from the start.
If you are a climate risk assessment agency dealing with a lack of local ground-truth data — this project developed a Climate Assembly Portal that aggregates citizen science activities. This provides a database of local insights to make risk models more accurate for 150 European regions.
If you are a corporate sustainability agency dealing with 'greenwashing' accusations — this project developed a values-based methodology for bottom-up engagement. This allows companies to co-design adaptation measures with the public to ensure genuine societal resilience.
Based on available project data, no specific pricing or licensing costs are mentioned as the project was EU-funded.
The project has already been tested across 150 European regions and local communities, suggesting a high capacity for regional scaling.
Based on available project data, the portal is designed for access by the EC/CINEA, but specific commercial licensing terms are not provided.
It shifts climate deliberations from expert-only discussions to multi-stakeholder processes using a multilingual portal and a set of guidelines for policymakers.
The project runs from 2023-01-01 to 2025-12-31, with the final version of the portal tool expected around month 34.
The consortium is diverse and well-balanced for a social-innovation project, consisting of 19 partners across 10 countries. With a 26% industry ratio (5 companies, including 4 SMEs), the project ensures that the academic research from 5 universities and 2 research centers is grounded in practical, commercial application.
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