In January 2024, the Horizon Europe project PRO-CLIMATE officially kicked off. The full name of the 3-year-duration project is “Proactive community adaptation to climate change through social transformation and behavioural change,” and it was approved for funding in the frame of the Horizon Europe Research Programme.
PRO-CLIMATE aims to support communities to proactively adapt to climate change through social transformation and behavioural change. To achieve this, PRO-CLIMATE will identify social tipping points and policy actions that enable systemic transformation to be achieved across social systems. PRO-CLIMATE will adopt an approach guided by the concept of systems thinking, which views communities as complex systems that are interconnected and influenced by multiple factors, socio-economic and environmental. By understanding and leveraging their dynamics, it will then develop strategies and interventions that promote social transformation and behavioural change. This will result in a robust framework for designing effective methodologies and tools to foster proactively adaptive behaviours and facilitate transformative changes.
A set of diverse (in terms of climate change problems and socio-economic contexts) case studies across Europe will be an instrumental tool for the co-creation, validation, and upscaling of this framework by running living labs and bringing stakeholders together to understand community governance and institutional structures, and also to pilot and validate the project’s behaviour change activities.
The project PRO-CLIMATE consortium is composed of 10 partners from 7 countries with excellent experience in specific domains – TERO MONOPROSOPI IKE (Greece), Atlantic Technological University (Ireland), The University of Bergen (Norway), Universität Leipzig (Germany), NORCE Norwegian Research Centre (Norway), FUNDACION CARTIF (Spain), Diputación Provincial de Badajoz (Spain), University of Gdańsk (Poland), Coventry University (United Kingdom) and INSTITUTO SYNETAIRISTIKIS IGESIAS KAI SYNERGASIAS ASTIKI MI KERDOSKOPIKI ETAIREIA (Greece). The project is funded under the Horizon Europe programme, Grant agreement ID: 101137967.
More information about the project, its goals and expected impact, as well as the latest project updates, can be found on the project’s website: www.pro-climate.eu.
