LOCALISED
| Project funded by the European Union Framework Programme for Research and Innovation "Horizon 2020" under Grant Agreement No 101036458. |
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LOCALISED DECARBONISATION PATHWAYS FOR CITIZENS, LOCAL ADMINISTRATIVES AND BUSINESS TO INFORMATION AND SUPPORT MITIGATION AND ADAPTION ACTION
LOCAL DECARBONISATION TRAINING FOR CITIZENS, LOCAL ADMINISTRATIONS AND ENTERPRISES INFORMATION ON ADAPTATIONAL AND ADAPTATIVE ACTIVITIES CLIMATE CHANGES
Program: Horizon 2020, Call: H2020-LC-GD-2020 (the European Green Deal), Topic: LC-GD-9-2-2020, Type of action: RIA
Coordinator: Potsdam-Institut für Klimafolgenforschung/Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, PIK, Germany
Consortium: 12 Partners from 6 EU countries
Project objectives:
The project aims to help understand how European and national ambitious climate change, mitigation or adaptation plans affect local communities, i.e. cities, residents and businesses.
To this end, the project will create effective and understandable tools to bring European decarbonisation scenarios to local level, namely (1) The Decarbonisation Profiler for municipalities, regions and residents, providing information in all 24 EU languages and (2) the Net-Zero Business Consultant tool. The tools will enable local authorities and decision-makers, as well as citizens and businesses to identify actions and best practices to mitigate and adapt to climate change for each NUTS region3.
The project will further work with groups of citizens in the EU to inform how climate change and the various ZERO-Net scenarios affect their lives (positively and negatively) and how behaviour changes can contribute to reducing climate change.
The project is carried out in several stages, the first is to identify and describe Europe's situation in the next 50 years: to describe scenarios and plans for reducing emissions at the level of the European Union and Member States; to define the types, scale and likelihood of climate change in different parts of Europe; to define methods for reducing climate change and adapting to climate change with their impact on different areas of life and economics. The next step is to clarify the activity against climate change for smaller regions and to determine how they will affect individual regions in Europe (the planned level of detail is NUTS-3 areas). This will involve disaggregation of spatial data and the use of algorithms to minimize loss of data precision. At this stage, a spatial database will be established to determine for each region the expected level of change according to the selected climate scenario. All these activities will lead to the creation of IT tools supporting local administration, residents and businesses. The local administration will be given a tool to analyse the impact of climate change and adaptation possibilities to help develop sustainable energy and climate action plans (SECAP). Citizens will be given a tool to understand how European climate change policy affects everyday life, the challenges faced by urban residents, how lifestyle change and daily choices affect climate. Entrepreneurs will be given a tool to find potential in changing conditions and to defend themselves against the necessary changes in some sectors of the economy.
The role of IMP PAN:
The role of the Institute of Flow Machines of the Polish Academy of Sciences in the LOCALISED project is to support the creation of databases, technical support in technology (construction and operation of machinery, including innovative heat pumps, exchangers, pipelines, flow control devices, operational characteristics and critical parameters) using research and experience of the institute in mechanical engineering. As part of the project in IMP PAN will be conducted comprehensive tests of selected heat pumps, biomass boilers, which will result in performance characteristics and critical performance parameters, maximum and optimal performance. The results of the studies will be used by partners to create models of device work.
The project consortiumLOCALISED the following partners are included:
1. Potsdam-Institut für Klimafolgenforschung (Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research), DE
2. Fondazione Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici, IT
3. Forschungszentrum Jülich, Institute of Energy and Climate Research, DE
4. Fundació Institut de Recerca de l’Energy de Catalunya (Catalonia Institute for Energy Research) (IREC), ES
5. Universiteit Twente, NL
6. Österreichische Gesellschaft für Umwelt und Technik (Austrian Society for Environment and Technology), AT
7. Institute of Flow Machines R. Zewalski Polish Academy of Sciences
8. T6 Ecosystems s.r.l., IT
9. Climate Media Factory UG, DE
10. Ajuntament de Barcelona, ES
11. Stadt Wien, AT
12. Metropolitan area Gdańsk-Gdynia-Sopot (MAGGS)
Budget of the project: € 5 083 700
Implementation period: October 1, 2021 – September 30, 2025