AdaptationHubs: National Adaptation Hubs

The overall objective of AdaptationHubs project is to support the overall implementation of the EU Adaptation Strategy, European Green Deal, Mission on Adaptation to Climate Change, the European Climate Law and the Climate Action Plan through cooperation and effective communication at all governance levels: EU, national, regional and local. To achieve this, the project will deliver the following specific objectives:

1. Supporting stronger and integrated adaptation planning and policymaking through the setting up of 27 NAHs (at least 1 per Member State), either new or by utilizing existing structures.
2. Supporting the engagement of all levels of governance in the achievement of the objectives of the EU Mission on Adaptation to Climate Change.
3. Providing support and capacity building to the newly developed and existing NAHs through an internal Central Support Facility and capacity building sessions.
4. Facilitating cross-regional and cross-border cooperation and knowledge exchange through the setting up of two distinct yet connected twinning schemes by AdaptationHubs project and other HE ongoing projects.
5. Ensuring the long-term sustainability and exploitation of the project results across Europe, including the maintenance of the NAHs into the future. 

CMCC role CMCC will serve as the national expert for Italy and work with the National Climate Adaptation Platform, an existing structure implemented by the Italian Institute for Environmental Protection and Research (ISPRA). Through the duration of the project, CMCC will engage National stakeholders to build support and long-term ownership of the Italian NAH (Work Package 3). CMCC will work closely with other NAHs through the AdaptationHubs Central Support Facility in support of the capacity building, peer-learning exchange activities (Task 2.2) and monitoring of impact pathways (Task 2.3). Based on the monitoring and evaluation of Work Package 2 and to further enable relevant exchanges between NAHs with similar challenges, CMCC will participate in the national and transboundary twinning programme (Task 4.2). The Italian NAH will foster at least two twinning exchanges, which will be documented through short policy briefs, joint communication and dissemination actions, and resources and milestones shared throughout online channels. The goal of Work Package 5 is to develop a plan that ensures the long-term sustainability of the project results, which is a key goal of the project.

Activities

AdaptationHubs is structured in 5 Work Packages:

1. Coordination and Management
2. Central Support Facility 
3. National Multilevel Governance Adaptation Hubs 
4. Grouping, twinning and crosscutting trainings
5. Maximising impacts and sustainability 

The AdaptationHubs project in numbers:

• 27 NAHs established and operational;
• 135 working sessions of the NAHs held during the project’s duration;
• 1 Central Support Facility set-up and operational;
• 19 Peer-learning and capacity building activities between the NAHs implemented;
• 1 Structural Grouping Scheme developed;
• 54 Twinning activities implemented between regions and facilitated by the NAHs;
• 1 Pilot EU twinning programme set-up and tested;
• 4 EU twinning activities implemented with at least 16 total working sessions.

Expected results AdaptationHubs project will deliver three key concrete results: 

1. 27 National Multi-level Governance Adaptation Hubs (NAH), 1 per EU Member state; 
2. Central support facility for the NAHs, which will deliver capacity building, support, opportunities for peer-learning and a basis for outreach to countries beyond the EU-27 and to regions not directly benefiting from and participating in the EU Mission;
3. A robust Grouping and Twinning scheme to provide opportunities for mutual-learning and cooperation to regions across the EU and beyond, both to ones participating in the Mission already and not. 

Partners Institute For European Energy And Climate Policy Stichting (IEECP), Netherlands Fresh-Thoughts Consulting Gmbh (FT), Austria Iclei European Secretariat Gmbh (ICLEI), Germany Federation Europeenne Des Agences Et Des Régions Pour L'énergie Et L'environnement (FEDARENE), Belgium Energy Cities/Energie-Cites Association (ENC), France European Regions Research And Innovation Network (ERRIN), Belgium Joanneum Research Forschungsgesellschaft Mbh (JOANNEUM), Austria I-Catalist Sl (ICATALIST), Spain Fondatsiya Tsentar Za Energiyna Efektivnost - Enefekt (ENEFFECT), Bulgaria Institut Jozef Stefan (JSI), Slovenia Pedal Consulting Sro (PC), Slovakia Vlaamse Instelling Voor Technologisch Onderzoek N.V. (VITO), Belgium Anaptyxiaki Etaireia Lefkosias Ltd (ANEL), Cyprus Hungaromet Magyar Meteorologiai Szolgaltato Nonprofit Zartkoruen Mukodo Reszvenytarsasag (HungaroMet), Hungary Stichting Climate Adaptation Services (CAS), Netherlands Administratia Nationala De Meteorologie R.A. (ANM), Romania Rise Research Institutes of Sweden Ab (RISE), Sweden Latvijas Pasvaldibu Savieniba Biedriba (LPS), Latvia Elinkeino-, Liikenne- Ja Ympäristökeskusten Sekä Työ- Ja Elinkeinotoimistojen Kehittämis- Ja Hallintokeskus (ELY), Finland  Ceska Zemedelska Univerzita V Praze (CZU), Czechia Fciencias.Id - Associacao Para A Investigacao E Desenvolvimento De Ciências (FC ID), Portugal Diktyo Poleon Gia Tin Politiki Prostasia Thn Anthektikotita Kai Tin Aeiforia (ELDAP), Greece Luxembourg Institute Of Science And Technology (LIST), Luxembourg Vsi Ziedine Ekonomika (ZE), Lithuania Centre D’Etudes Et D’Expertise Sur Les Risques L'Environnement La Mobilité Et L'aménagement (Cerema), France Fondazione Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici (CMCC), Italy Sihtasutus Eestimaa Looduse Fond (ELF), Estonia Instytut Ochrony Środowiska - Państwowy Instytut Badawczy (IOS-PIB), Poland University College Cork - National University of Ireland, Cork (UCC), Ireland Foreningen Klimatorium (KLIMATORIUM), Denmark Universita ta Malta (UM), Malta