Strategies and processes to involve the public in decision-making, fostering awareness, participation, trust and buy-in for environmental actions.
Communities of Practice (CoPs) and Living Labs are collaborative spaces where stakeholders co-develop solutions through open innovation, knowledge-sharing and experimentation.
The assessment of policies, structures, and decision-making processes to evaluate the effectiveness of governance systems in the environment sector
The process of involving and collaborating with stakeholders to ensure inclusive decision-making and sustained impact.
The identification and analysis of stakeholders and their relationships using Stakeholder Network Analysis (SNA) to optimise engagement and networking strategies.
The identification and analysis of existing and emerging technologies to assess their applicability and potential impact in a given sector (i.e. water).
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NATALIE addresses the risks posed by climate change and its impacts and proposes to advance the concepts of Òecosystem-based adaptationÓ in Europe combined with climate resilient development pathways, as the means for impact driven Nature-Based Solutions (NBS), to accelerate and mainstreaming the adoption of NBS for resilience to climate change, which is also the cornerstone identified in the recent IPCC AR6 WGII Report. NATALIE will deliver innovative and practical innovations in co-creation of solutions and stakeholder engagement, modelling, testing, monitoring and validation mechanisms that will support regions and municipalities to plan and develop adaptation actions bringing along valuable knowledge and experience as actionable knowledge for adaptation and impact-driven NBS. To achieve this goal, NATALIE will develop a transformative NBS booster pack of 25 solutions (innovative actions that address the key six levers for transformative change: (1) socially acceptable, smart and financial innovative solutions; (2) societal, stakeholder and citizen engagement; (3) larger systemic solutions at regional level; 4) monitoring, evaluation and cost-benefit analysis of solutions; 5) pre-feasibility study; 6) evidence-based outcomes and recommendations). The main goal is to accelerate and foster the mainstreaming of NBS, by forming an ecosystem based adaptation for regional resilience. The booster Innovation Package includes innovative technical, modelling and IT solutions (including an innovative NBS knowledge booster and digital twin), governance, policy recommendations at EU and regional level, financing and public engagement transformative solutions. 18 NBS measures will be demonstrated at 8 case studies, in different biogeographical regions of Europe in Greece, Romania, Latvia, Canary Islands, Belgium (Flanders), France, Norway and Italy (Veneto region), as well as five follower regions in Iceland, the Balearic Islands, Romania, France and Lithuania).
WE&B is the co-leader of WP2 “Co-creation of transformative solutions and mainstreaming of NBSs” that aims to aims to: (i) design, test and consolidate an analytical, methodological and practical co-creation framework for transformative solutions towards urban and regional resilience that fosters a paradigm shift towards NBSs integration, including maturing of NBSs ecosystems, assessment and increase of management readiness level, stakeholder engagement, capacity building and co-creation of solutions; (ii) record and understand the landscape, identify local, regional and national stakeholders and collect views, conflicting interests, synergies and knowledge through qualitative modelling and analysis; (iii) engage multi-scale decision makers in the codesign of NBS interventions and increase management readiness level towards building resilient partnerships; (iv) advance twinning activities between CS and FLs to boost local capabilities; (v) establish the governance arrangement and policy considerations needed to implement NBSs and overcome barriers through a participatory approach. Specifically, WE&B will lead the following task:
– Knowledge needs, identification of barriers and setup of Transformation Labs for stakeholder engagement and co-creation of solutions.
And WE&B will co-lead the following task:
– Mapping the stakeholder landscape and institutional profile of actors for all relevant CS hazards through Social Network Analysis
