EIT CLIMATE-KIC "AELCLIC_PATHFINDER" Adaptation of European Landscapes to Climate Change (Setting Regional and Local Consortiums) (EARLIER STAGE INNOVATION Pathfinder)

GOAL: The AELCLIC-PATHFINDER will define, test and disseminate proacve and catalyzing models for the configuraon of regional/local consortia with the social, financial, administrave and technical capacity to co-define in the future Landscape Adaptaon Plans to Climate Change (LACAPs hereaer). A LACAP would include regional/local policies, strategies, pilot acons and iniaves to promote Climate Change adaptaon and migaon DEMAND: There is an increasing demand for new regional/local planning models to align agendas and visions of the stakeholders involved in the management, adaptaon and transformaon of the landscape, both in rural and urban areas as well as in transional spaces. This issue is site specific and requires the co-definion of collaborave governance models supporng, guiding and coordinang boom-up and top-down iniaves from land owners, land users, economic actors, authories and NGO’s ACTION AND IMPACT: The AELCLIC project will promote vercal and horizontal models of governance supporng clear acons, joint commitments and catalyzing effects. These consideraons will guide the definion of acons and pathways in each AELCLIC Pilot Landscapes as well as the disseminaon of results OUTCOME: The final outcome of the AELCLIC-PATHFINDER will be a set of regional/local Consora in a strategically selected group of Pilot Landscapes covering the climac, socio-economic, cultural and biogeographical diversity of Europe. By the end of the process, the members of each Consorum would confirm their commitment and resources to advance in the producon of LACAPs on the base of the agreed agendas and goals. USERS: The final users of the results will firstly be the regional/local communies where the Consora will be defined as a result of the project. Secondly, other regions and municipalies will benefit from the produced concepts and adapt them to their own condions. In terms of end-users, the project mainly aims at regional/local authories, NGOs, businesses and entrepreneurs, supported by research instuons. This aim has guided the incorporaon of partners and third pares in the AELCLIC project (see leers of support in file #6). Further idenficaon and involvement of local economic actors & NGOs will take place in each local/regional Consorum during the implementaon of the project APPROACH: The project will include 4 tandems of Universies and Regional/Local Authories (all CLIMATE-KIC Partners) promong the development of Consora in a set of Leading Pilot Landscapes. The planning concepts generated in those Leading Pilot Landscapes will be tested and adapted in a set of Mulpliers with the support of regional/local third pares. In addion, the parcipaon of some European Networks as third pares (UNISCAPE & CIVILSCAPE) will facilitate a crical revision of the transferability/scalability of the results and will provide a solid plaorm for disseminaon