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Summary
The Pathways2Resilience (P2R) project aims to increase the resilience of European regions and communities in the face of climate change. While climate risks are growing and many regions/communities are struggling to cope, they are also key actors for mitigation and adaptation to its impacts. P2R’s approach of transformative climate adaptation seeks to empower regions and communities through systems innovation and capacity building towards climate resilience.
Detailed Call Description
P2R is a five-year project implemented by a consortium of 14 organisations, coordinated by EIT Climate-KIC. As part of its work, P2R will support at least 100 regions/communities within EU Member States or Associated Countries that are within Europe’s biogeographical regions, over the course of two calls, to co-design visions of a climate resilient future and corresponding transformative adaptation pathways and innovation agendas that ensure long-term impact. Particular attention is needed for less developed regions/communities that are vulnerable to climate impacts and have low adaptive capacity, in this first call, the selection process will prioritise regions/communities with heightened vulnerability.
This call aims to put together a diverse and inclusive portfolio of regions, ensuring a comprehensive validation of the P2R framework. Ultimately, this strategy will bolster the project’s commitment to assisting regions and communities in developing effective transformative adaptation plans. This first call aims to provide 40 regions/communities with financial support through subgrant agreements, along with supporting services and capacity building activities.
P2R has developed a framework to support regions in their work to adapt and build resilience to climate change, the Regional Resilience Journey (RRJ). The RRJ consists of multiple steps, each containing different expected activities and outcomes, as well as pointing to different methodologies and tools that can be used. Subgrants may involve a combination of activities, including construction of RRJs and innovation agendas, capacity building, stakeholder engagement, project management, communication, and dissemination, including reporting. Eligible subgrant activities will follow the provision for activities under Horizon Europe (HE).
Specifically, these activities may include: deliverable development (e.g. regional pathways, plans and innovation portfolios towards climate resilience building on existing assessments of trends and projections of future climate change risks), stakeholder engagement and involvement, capacity building, internal and external training related to resilience, communication, dissemination, and exploitation, exchanges with other subgrantees and other regions, monitoring and evaluation and project management and local coordination.
Online Sessions with information are expected to take place on the following dates:
- 4 December 2023, 13h00-14h00 (Brussels time).
- 11 January 2024, 13h00-14h00 (Brussels time).
- 17 January 2024, 13h00-14h00 (Brussels time).
The online information sessions will be posted on the P2R website.
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The maximum grant amount per subgrantee is €210.000 for subgrants.
A total of 40 applications will receive funding in this call.
Thematic Categories
- Environment and Climate Change
- Public Administration
- Regional Development
- Research, Technological Development and Innovation
- Small-Medium Enterprises and Competitiveness
- Urban Development
Eligibility for Participation
- Central Government
- Non Profit Organisations
- Private Bodies
- Researchers/Research Centers/Institutions
- Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs)
- State-owned Enterprises
Eligibility For Participation Notes
Applicants must meet all the following requirements:
- Applicants must be regions/communities that are part of EU Member States or Associated Countries that are within Europe’s biogeographical regions.
- Applicants must qualify as regions/communities defined as either:
- Public authorities at Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics (NUTS) 1, 2 and 3 level, as well as and Local Administrative Units (LAU); or
- Bodies governed by public law in accordance compliance with Article 2.4 of the Directive 2014/24/EU.
Private non-profit bodies and Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) following the EU definition by the Commission Recommendation 2003/361/EC and in the SME user guide may be part of a consortium.
the Joint Research Centre’s (JRC) INFORM Climate Change Risk Index will be employed to assess a country’s impacts of climate change on the future risk of humanitarian crises and disasters (using the specific parameters: 2050, RCP 8.5, Constant Population). Following this assessment, the maximum number of slots in the pool of 80 applications will be determined for each participating country. Priority in pool construction will be given to countries with the highest vulnerability, indicated by the highest INFORM Climate Change Risk Index values.
The total available budget aims to award to 40 subgrantees.
Financial support will be provided through subgrant agreements based on and reimbursed against actual eligible incurred costs.
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For all call related questions: pathways2resilience@climate-kic.org