Imagine a smart weather app, but instead of just rain, it tells city leaders exactly how heatwaves, smoke, and pollen will make people sick in their specific area. It helps them decide whether to plant more trees or change building rules to keep people safe. It's like a health-focused GPS for city planning to avoid climate disasters.
Local authorities lack the specific tools to predict how climate events like wildfires and heatwaves will impact public health. This leads to reactive rather than proactive city planning and overwhelmed healthcare systems.
An interactive toolkit and dashboard for assessing health hazards, vulnerability, and risk indices across different European regions.
If you are a consultancy dealing with outdated city layouts that trap heat — this project developed a toolkit that identifies vulnerability and suggests technical or nature-based solutions to reduce health risks.
If you are a healthcare provider dealing with sudden surges in patients during heatwaves or wildfire events — this project developed health indicators and risk indices that help you prepare your staff and resources more effectively.
If you are a monitoring company dealing with fragmented data on pollution and pollen — this project developed an interactive dashboard that connects these hazards to actual human health outcomes for regional authorities.
Based on available project data, no pricing or cost information is provided as this is a Horizon Europe research project.
The project includes an upscaling strategy to meet the ambitions of the Climate mission, targeting Mediterranean, Alpine, and Continental regions.
Based on available project data, specific licensing terms are not mentioned; however, it is a consortium-led effort with 25 partners.
The tools are designed to be in line with the Climate-ADAPT Urban adaptation support tool for seamless integration into regional planning.
The project runs from 2024-11-01 to 2028-10-31, meaning the final tools will be refined by late 2028.
The consortium is heavily weighted toward research and academic expertise, with 11 research organizations and 4 universities. Business involvement is relatively low at 12%, consisting of 3 industry partners, including 2 SMEs. This suggests the output will be scientifically rigorous but may require more commercial steering to reach market readiness.
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