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Building climate resilience

Learning how to live with floods, droughts, and extreme weather

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Global warming affects everyone, disrupts many people's lives, and carries increasing cost. In the past five years, Europe has been 2.2 degrees warmer than it was at the end of the 19th century.

The damage can be kept in check by taking stock of the risks and learning to prevent and handle them. The sooner the better: Delayed action could increase the annual cost of climate damage to more than €840 billion.

Our projects underpin EU climate adaptation policy by helping regions build their climate preparedness through cost-effective solutions, often with added (social) benefits. Prominent aspects include resilience-by-design, smart climate adaptive systems, and nature-based solutions.

Discover project highlights

Browse through the slideshow to discover key project achievements:

Dive into project success stories

Browse success stories from projects supporting climate resilience in the North Sea Reigon.

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> Learning to live with the floods

People wearing yellow safety vests.

> How to reduce the cost of flood protection

A child watering a small flowerbed created on the pavement.

> Blue-green cities tackle climate risks

Three people driving a cylinder into a wet peatland to take a core sample, with two onlookers standing by.

> A new approach to peatland ecosystems

Green vegetables and red tomatoes.

> SalFar: Let's talk about salt

A group of people in a sunny forest studying a large map on the forest floor.

> Answers to droughts, floods and groundwater protection

Explore projects building climate resilience

Projects in the VIB programme period (2021-2027)

Blue Transition

Making regions resilient by integrating soil and water management

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Mainstreaming nature-based solutions in coastal systems

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Creating biodiverse and climate-resilient grasslands

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Securing software reliability for critical infrastructures

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Building the readiness of governments and citizens to deal with floods

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Reducing outdoor heat stress in cities

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Developing digital solutions for climate resilience

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Projects in the V programme period (20214-2020)

Unlocking the benefits of blue-green infrastruture and social innovation

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Building with Nature

Using nature's own forces in flood risk management

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Adapting to climate change from cloud to coast

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Buffering water levels through peatland restoration

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Providing tools for tackling climate risk in midsize cities

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Finding affordable ways to keep the floods at bay

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Taking a multi-layer approach to flood risk management

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Managing storm surges and flood risk in estuaries

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Promoting saline farming and food security in a changing climate

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Managing groundwater in times of global warming

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Facilitating water co-governance to protect wetlands and climate resilience

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