SIC adapt! – Adaptation to the Spatial Impacts of Climate Change | Umweltbundesamt

Background and Goals

SIC adapt! is a Strategic Initiative Cluster (SIC) of the INTERREG IV B North West Europe (NWE) Programme dealing with adaptation to the impacts of climate change. Eight approved transnational projects originating from seven Member States of the NWE Programme with around 100 partner organisations are involved joining public authorities from all levels, scientific institutions, non profit and private organisations.

The focus of the project is to adapt to the spatial impacts of climate change. Within the eight projects (Future Cities, ALFA, AMICE, C-Change, FloodResilienCity (FRC), ForeStClim, IMCORE, WAVE) public authorities at all administrative levels, academic institutions and non-profit institutions cooperate to provide integrated adaptation strategies and sustainable, functional and economic Good -Practice examples of adaptation measures in the following four thematic areas:

• urban areas
• water / river / coasts
• nature / forest / agriculture
• social aspects.

The results of these projects have been merged, discussed and further developed within three "Clusters Expert Boards" (CEB). Thus synergies can be created and examples for adaptation measures can be collected in order to develop recommendations for policy makers at European level, for each of the member states and for regional and local stakeholders.

In order to share expertise and contrast experiences on the use of the tools and measures of the different projects their partners will get the opportunity for

• individual cross-project exchange between partners from the different projects, e.g. within working group meetings and
• multilateral exchanges within the range of five topics of general interest:vulnerability assessment, climate proofing, heat and bio-climatic stress in urban areas, impacts of flash floods and possible counteractive measures and multifunctional land-use

Outputs: In order to attain the aims of the Cluster three concrete objectives have been identified:

1. Adaptation tools and measures: Enhance the outcomes of the cluster projects on adaptation measures and assessment tools by capitalising on the extensive knowledge base available from the 100 project partners.
2. Policy recommendations and mainstreaming: Improve the impact of the projects’ outcomes for NWE and beyond by drawing key policy messages for EU, national and regional level on the basis of joint findings of the cluster projects and foster integration of adaptation into policies, programmes and planning.
3. Communication and dissemination: Communicate the strategically relevant results and interim results of the cluster and the cluster projects with EU-policy makers, EU-research institutes, relevant national policy makers, other INTERREG programmes and strategic initiatives.

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