CLIMACARE is an Innovation Action delivering large-scale demonstration, deployment, and replication of heat resilience solutions,
placing local authorities and vulnerable residents at the centre. In five demonstration cities (Athens, Pecs, Sultanbeyli-Istanbul, Sevilla,
and Alba Iulia), systemic measures will be co-created and implemented, including redesigning public spaces with nature-based
solutions and passive cooling in buildings, while safeguarding against maladaptation risks. Through an inclusive multi-level
governance framework, municipalities will initiate localization of National Heat-Health Action Plans, develop emergency SOPs, and
deploy a Digital Heat Preparedness Suite, that defines roles and coordinates actions with regional authorities, civil protection, health,
transport, utilities, and civil society organisations. CLIMACARE pioneers innovative financing mechanisms integrating tested
interventions into municipal budgets. Its controlled trial design generates robust evidence on health, behavioural, and equity (justice)
impacts, and provides scientific validation often missing in local adaptation measures. Multi-Actor Heat Resilience Task Forces cocreate
and co-govern demonstrations, ready-to-go actions, and financing instruments while embedding evaluation results into
municipal practice. Three replication cities (Oppeano, Southampton, and Lower Hutt-Wellington) will adopt proven solutions,
ensuring transferability across governance and socio-economic contexts. By combining demonstrations, ready-to-go actions,
evaluation, and replication, and grounding itself in the Capability Approach, Social Determinants of Health, and multi-level
governance, CLIMACARE advances Technology Readiness Level from piloting to deployment, contributing to the EU Mission on
Adaptation to Climate Change and fostering climate-resilient, socially just, and health-protective urban futures.
Coordinator: IRCEM
Partner:Università Bocconi,UNIVERSIDAD DE SEVILLA,DAEM MUNICIPALITY,INSTITOUTO PROLEPSIS,PECS,PECSI VAROSFEJLESTESI NONPROFIT,Family Centre Social Policy Research Unit,INNOVA NEXT SL,DEMIR ENERJI,DeCC,Sultanbeyli Municipality,EPHA,AYUNTAMIENTO DE SEVILLA,GEBZE TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY,NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS - NTUA,UNIVLEEDS,STEINBEIS,ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY CERRAHPASA,Hutt City Council,PRIMARIA MUNICIPIULUI ALBA IULIA,SOUTHAMPTON CITY COUNCIL,COMUNE DI OPPEANO,CLARKE MODET Y COMPANIA S.L.,BABLE SMART CITIES IBERIA, S.L,NEVELOK HAZA EGYESULET,MULTECILER,
placing local authorities and vulnerable residents at the centre. In five demonstration cities (Athens, Pecs, Sultanbeyli-Istanbul, Sevilla,
and Alba Iulia), systemic measures will be co-created and implemented, including redesigning public spaces with nature-based
solutions and passive cooling in buildings, while safeguarding against maladaptation risks. Through an inclusive multi-level
governance framework, municipalities will initiate localization of National Heat-Health Action Plans, develop emergency SOPs, and
deploy a Digital Heat Preparedness Suite, that defines roles and coordinates actions with regional authorities, civil protection, health,
transport, utilities, and civil society organisations. CLIMACARE pioneers innovative financing mechanisms integrating tested
interventions into municipal budgets. Its controlled trial design generates robust evidence on health, behavioural, and equity (justice)
impacts, and provides scientific validation often missing in local adaptation measures. Multi-Actor Heat Resilience Task Forces cocreate
and co-govern demonstrations, ready-to-go actions, and financing instruments while embedding evaluation results into
municipal practice. Three replication cities (Oppeano, Southampton, and Lower Hutt-Wellington) will adopt proven solutions,
ensuring transferability across governance and socio-economic contexts. By combining demonstrations, ready-to-go actions,
evaluation, and replication, and grounding itself in the Capability Approach, Social Determinants of Health, and multi-level
governance, CLIMACARE advances Technology Readiness Level from piloting to deployment, contributing to the EU Mission on
Adaptation to Climate Change and fostering climate-resilient, socially just, and health-protective urban futures.
Coordinator: IRCEM
Partner:Università Bocconi,UNIVERSIDAD DE SEVILLA,DAEM MUNICIPALITY,INSTITOUTO PROLEPSIS,PECS,PECSI VAROSFEJLESTESI NONPROFIT,Family Centre Social Policy Research Unit,INNOVA NEXT SL,DEMIR ENERJI,DeCC,Sultanbeyli Municipality,EPHA,AYUNTAMIENTO DE SEVILLA,GEBZE TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY,NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS - NTUA,UNIVLEEDS,STEINBEIS,ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY CERRAHPASA,Hutt City Council,PRIMARIA MUNICIPIULUI ALBA IULIA,SOUTHAMPTON CITY COUNCIL,COMUNE DI OPPEANO,CLARKE MODET Y COMPANIA S.L.,BABLE SMART CITIES IBERIA, S.L,NEVELOK HAZA EGYESULET,MULTECILER,