Proactive community adaptation to climate change through social transformation and behavioural change

The strategic objective of PRO-CLIMATE is to support communities to proactively adapt to climate change through social transformation and behavioural change.

Develop a living lab framework to enable real-life environments across six (6) European countries for designing, implementing, testing, and monitoring systematic transformation to achieve climate resilience through behaviour changes and governance strategies.

Identify the key components of each climate adaptation system, their interactions, systemic interdependencies and trade-offs.

Increase the behavioural change capacity of the case study communities to design and implement sustainable, integrated, inclusive solutions to accelerate climate resilience, so that more effective coping for stakeholders within communities is promoted, and sustained and effective solutions within the communities to support climate resilience are delivered.

To develop a multi agent computer model (MACM) of key dimensions of the European socio-ecological system based on data and knowledge generated within the project and designed to enable the identification of social tipping points and leverage points which enable systemic transformations towards climate resilience, and to develop from the MACM a policy sandbox tool which allows a realistic prospective analysis of existing and future policy scenarios likely to produce systemic transformations towards climate resilience.

Provide concrete and tailored recommendations of operational nature, in cooperation with a wide spectrum of stakeholders, to accelerate systemic transformation in the six selected case studies and beyond. To do so, the results of the living labs, key drivers and mapping as well as behavioural change workshops along with the TransCliR digital tool will be evaluated and the fields of action will be identified.