MULTICLIMACT is a European project that aims to develop a mainstreamed framework and toolkit to support public stakeholders and citizens in assessing and enhancing the resilience of the built environment and its people at multiple scales – buildings (including cultural heritage), urban areas, and territories – against locally relevant climate-related and natural hazards. It integrates a multidisciplinary approach, considering socio-economic, engineering, climatic, and life dimensions, and includes 18 cost-effective, easy-to-implement solutions: design methods, materials, and digital tools. MULTICLIMACT also introduces a resilience scorecard and aligns with international and European initiatives, showcasing its methodology through four diverse case studies (Barcelona, Camerino, Riga, and Leidschendam-Voorburg and Roermond) to ensure both local relevance and scalability.

Digital predictive systems have improved our ability to anticipate the effects of disruptive climate events on cities. However, complex urban environments and lack of data to assess the impacts of such events still leave large areas exposed to future events. These conditions are exacerbated by climate change, growing urban populations, and vulnerable, ill-equipped building stocks. Minority Report will develop and implement a co-creation framework to support the delivery of a people-centric technology platform. This platform will enable a sustainable, circular value chain for construction and renovation of built environments, enhancing climate change mitigation and disaster resilience. Minority Report will apply its universal co-creation framework across three demo sites representing three distinct climatic areas, situated in EU and the IndoPacific.

MAIA (Maximising Impact and Accessibility of European Climate Research) acts as an impact multiplier by connecting Horizon Europe climate research projects. Building on seven H2020 projects (BINGO, BRIGAID, CLARITY, Connecting Nature, DRIVER+, PLACARD, and RESCCUE), it enhances connectivity at three levels: activating a Pan-European stakeholder community, developing the MAIA Portal, and coordinating an EU climate research cluster. Through tech tools and outreach campaigns, MAIA democratizes climate knowledge and helps transform research into viable products. The project makes climate knowledge more interoperable and usable for diverse audiences.

The built environment is ill-prepared for more frequent and increasingly intense climate-related extreme events. The current building stock is particularly vulnerable because it has limited or no capacity to adapt and recover from extreme events thereby leading to building failures that cause severe socio-economic losses and adversely affecting the health and wellbeing of people. Recent scientific and technological advances in the construction industry provide timely solutions for improving the resilience for specific single hazards (e.g. flood hazard or seismic hazard), but they are often not cost effective, rarely eco-friendly and nearly never address the multiple hazards present in many locations. This is hardly surprising because there is neither a clearly defined framework for quantifying the whole-life socio-economic-environmental impacts of extreme natural events nor tools for assessing the holistic climate resilience of buildings. Consequently, it is currently very challenging to develop/select optimal solutions for real-world multi-hazard scenarios.
MULTICARE will address this challenge directly by developing new multi-criteria decision-support frameworks and providing plug & play technological and digital solutions for improving the resilience of the built environment in a cost-effective, reliable and sustainable manner. The technological solutions consist of multi-functional low-carbon resilient technologies embedded in modular and prefabricated construction for the next generation of high performance and smart buildings, characterized by enhanced safety, energy efficiency, environmental-sustainability, improved quality of life, circularity, and scalability for a broad range of natural events and end-user.

Urban Adaptation and Alert Solutions for a Timely Reaction
RETIME is an EU co-funded project to provide local stakeholders, vulnerable groups and decision-makers with a suite of user-friendly solutions to anticipate and mitigate extreme events and emergencies. These include both natural and human-induced hazards such as storms, flash floods, wildfires and extreme temperatures. In this respect, the project seeks to increase the resilience of vulnerable urban areas while making sure no one is left behind. RETIME’s objectives are to:
Make building occupants and other vulnerable key stakeholders more aware of the solutions available in case of extreme climatic events and natural disasters.
Test innovative and practical adaptation measures for vulnerable urban areas.
Support public authorities in enhancing the safety and resilience of the built environment by implementing site-specific emergency protocols.

CARMINE is an EU-funded Horizon Europe project that develops a knowledge-based framework to address climate adaptation and mitigation challenges across eight representative metropolitan regions of Europe. The project responds to the growing frequency and severity  of climate and weather extremes by creating actionable tools, decision-support services, and science-based roadmaps that strengthen multi-level climate governance from local communities to European-level decision-making. Through close collaboration with stakeholders,  policymakers, and regional authorities, CARMINE integrates high-resolution data, stakeholder engagement, and Digital Twin use cases to co-produce locally tailored solutions that bridge the gap between science and practice. Aligned with the EU Mission on Adaptation  to Climate Change, the project addresses key barriers such as limited decision-making knowledge, slow adaptation uptake, and fragmented implementation while developing early warning and disaster risk management systems. Focusing on a 2030-2035 timeframe with perspectives extending to 2050, CARMINE aims to connect over 40 communities by 2027 and ensure that climate action is equitable, effective, and scalable. The project ultimately contributes to the EU’s goal of achieving climate resilience by 2030 through cross-sectoral  frameworks and enhanced community resilience.