Other non-measurable objectives and wide-reaching impacts that the mission aims to deliver on:
- Resilience of environmental systems in order to achieve long-term sustainability
- Resilience of social and economic systems by developing new norms, practices and habits
- Resilience of political systems fostering societal transformation
- Supporting adjustments of existing early warning systems
- Improving availability, accessibility and usability of climate risk knowledge and digital knowledge services
- Providing access to climate risk assessments
Mission building blocks
Living labs
The mission will support actions of research and innovation for transformation, addressing key community systems which are:
- Regenerating community and social infrastructure
- Protecting human health and wellbeing
- Restoring nature, biodiversity and ecosystems services
- Rethinking water management
- Reviving landscapes and sustainable food systems
The mission will also:
- Facilitate inclusive and deliberative governance processes for just transitions
- Provide access to data, knowledge, and digital services
- Strengthen education, communication and a better understanding behavioural change
- Strengthen sustainable and circular local economies
Mission implementation phases
The mission will include three different phases:
- build-up (2021-2023), during which the supporting system for the mission will be set up, including the Mission Implementation Platform that will build upon the mission-relevant projects selected for funding under Horizon 2020. During this phase, some 60-100 regions and communities will have started to be fully engaged in the mission;
- full deployment (2024-2027), during which the mission will make any adjustments resulting from the evaluation, and will activate all other actions to unfold its full potential, further engaging another 100 regions and communities, and starting to provide results and recommendations regarding transformative policies;
- consolidation (2028-2030), during which the mission will consolidate the results obtained in the first two phases, while executing the projects contracted up to 2027. Beyond supporting the regions and communities, the mission will seek to sustain the momentum and secure their continued engagement on climate resilience.
The mission will be supported by local governance platforms that should be set up by partner regions and communities. The mission will also provide horizontal support through the deployment of communities of practices. It will provide support across multiple levels of governance and should develop twinning practices for fostering exchanges between advanced and less advances regions and communities.
Funding
Funding will be made available from Horizon Europe, and from other public sources (e.g. European, national, regional and local levels of funding) as well as from private investments.
A budget of EUR 368 million is available for the building up phase (2021-2023)
Selection process
Similarly to the Horizon Europe selection process, initiatives to be funded via this mission will be selected based on calls for projects published in Work Programmes.
Supporting documents
Report A Climate Resilient Europe
Implementation Plan
