The project CLIMAREST: Coastal Climate Resilience and Marine Restoration Tools for the Arctic Atlantic Basin integrates multiple expertise into a holistic approach that aims to develop a flexible overarching toolbox designed to establish guidelines for ecosystem restoration and to enhance climate resilience in coastal communities. The concept is to develop, test, and optimise a modular toolbox that integrates expert knowledge, scientific information, multilevel stakeholder and community involvement, ecosystem service improvement analysis, cost-benefit analysis, priority of actions, and custom-designed protocols for restoring and monitoring multiple coastal habitats. The toolbox framework will have common and specific tools that will be tested, optimised, and demonstrated in five different ecosystems across a latitudinal gradient of the Arctic-Atlantic basin, ranging from the high-Arctic Svalbard (79° N) in the north to the Madeira archipelago (33° N) in the south. In Madeira, project CLIMAREST will leverage opportunistic datasets from the existing mobile applications and digital platform tools for web-based surveys, allowing the reach out to a wide stakeholder audience, enabling citizen and stakeholder participation in monitoring of restoration activities and scenarios.
| Project Designation: | CLIMAREST - Coastal Climate Resilience and Marine Restoration Tools for the Arctic Atlantic basin | |
| Program: | Horizon Europe | |
| Start Date: | 01/12/2022 | |
| End Date: | 30/11/2025 | |
| Total Budget: | 8 701 780,25 € | |
| Funding: | 8 500 000,00 € | |
| ARDITI budget: | 797 375,00 € | |
| ARDITI funding: | 797 375,00 € | |
| Coordinator: | Sintef Ocean AS | |
| Partners: | Sintef Ocean AS (NO); Stiftelsen Norsk Institutt for Naturforskning Nina (NO); Institut Francais de Recherche pour L'exploitation de La Mer (FR); ARDITI - Agência Regional para o Desenvolvimento da Investigação, Tecnologia e Inovação (PT); Wavec/Offshore Renewables - Centro de Energia Offshore (PT); National University of Ireland Galway (IE); Universidad de Malaga (ES); Universidad de Alicante (ES); Universidad de Vigo (ES); Norges Teknisk-Naturvitenskapelige Universitet NTNU (NO); Meteorologisk Institutt (NO); Universita Politecnica Delle Marche (IT); Universita Degli Studi Di Napoli Federico II (NO); Seaboost (FR); Danmarks Tekniske Universitet (DK); Aarhus Universitet (DK). | |
| Website: | https://climarest.eu/ | |
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This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under Grant Agreement no. 101093865. |
This project is aligned with the following Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):
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