CLIMAREST

Objective

The CLIMAREST project integrates multiple expertise into a holistic approach to develop a toolbox designed to establish guidelines for ecosystem restoration and 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.
From Svalbard in the north to Madeira in the south, the variety of environmental conditions and restoration needs of the five demonstration sites will provide different restoration scenarios with particular specificities in terms of biodiversity, pressures and threats, ecosystem services, and stakeholders, which will create a unique opportunity to develop a modular toolbox that integrates common and specific tools for each restoration scenario into a collective framework.

WavEC Contribuition:

WavEC's main contribution to the CLIMAREST project will be leading WP5, "Future financial mechanisms and replication". In this WP the main goals are to identify key environmental and socio-economic data that will allow to build roadmaps and strategy to scale up the restoration actions, assess and catalogue restoration costs and socio-economic benefits, improve the existent finance and funding options and identifying novel sources of financial support. Finally, this WP will prepare an Action Plan for replication sites and develop a strategic framework to facilitate the replication across Europe.

General Information 

Funding: Horizon Europe
WavEC Coordinator: Inês Machado
Total Funding (Requested Contribution): € 8 499 998.75
WavEC Funding: € 211 875.00
Duration: December 2022 – November 2025
Coordinator: Sintef Ocean AS 
Partners: Sintef Ocean AS, Stiftelsen Norsk institutt for naturforskning (NINA), L'institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer, ARDITI - Agência Regional para o Desenvolvimento da Investigação, Tecnologia e Inovação – Associação, WavEC Offshore Renewables, National University of Ireland Galway, Universidad de Malaga, Universidad de Alicante, Universidad de Vigo, Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet – NTNU, Meteorologisk institutt, Sintef AS, Università Politecnica delle Marche, European Chapter of the Society for Ecological Restoration ser international, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Seaboost, Danmarks Tekniske Universitet, Aarhus Universitet
Website: https://climarest.eu/