EUBCE 2024 - Cecilia MATEOS PEDRERO - Project RESIST: A Potential Approach on Resilience to Climate Change - Innovation, Science, and Technology in Central Portugal Region

Project RESIST: A Potential Approach on Resilience to Climate Change - Innovation, Science, and Technology in Central Portugal Region

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RESIST is a five-year project that has emerged from the need to make regions more resilient to climate change. The project will adopt a new practical framework in which climate adaptation pathways will be tested in four EU regions with different socioeconomic profiles: Southwest Finland, Central Denmark, Catalonia, and Central Portugal. Each region will test adaptation solutions to five key climate challenges: floods, droughts, heatwaves, wildfires, and soil erosion, and will bring together civil society, business, policymakers, and the research community to work towards its future resilience. Know-how and adaptation pathways will be transferred from the four demonstrator regions to eight twinned regions from France, Greece, Latvia, Italy, Sweden, Spain, Portugal, and Norway, through mutual-learning activities and immersive digital twins. RESIST will strengthen the resilience, accelerate the transformation, and increase adaptive capacity of 12 climate-vulnerable regions in Europe, implementing 4 Large-Scale Demonstrators (LSD) of resilient innovations for Climate Change Adaptation at air, water, and soil level, between 60 partners.

C. Pedrero, Portalegre Polytechnic University, PORTUGAL
C. Nobre, Portalegre Polytechnic University, PORTUGAL
B. Rijo, Portalegre Polytechnic University, PORTUGAL
P. Brito, Portalegre Polytechnic University, PORTUGAL