Sites and solutions
Testing and knowledge building
IMPETUS has demonstration sites in 7 of Europe’s 11 biogeographical regions, as defined by the European Environment Agency. In these sites, our project teams are:
- testing various relevant technologies and nature-based solutions that will mitigate the local impacts of climate change;
- engaging with local communities, policy-makers and businesses in co-creation of knowledge, policies and innovative approaches relevant to their situation;
- encouraging ‘ownership’ of adaptation measures by local stakeholders so they sustain activities after IMPETUS project ends;
- gathering knowledge about scientific, technical, social and policy developments in local ‘Resilience Knowledge Booster’ (RKB) hubs;
- knowledge sharing at local and regional level through events, learning materials, promotional activities etc. centred around the RKBs.
IMPETUS results will be further disseminated and amplified by:
- coordinating with related projects;
- interconnecting the RKBs with other active communities and organisations to share lessons learned more widely across Europe.
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Continental demo site
Situation: The metropolitan Berlin-Brandenburg region in the north-eastern German lowlands has a relatively high surface area of rivers and lakes,
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Coastal demo site
Prognosis Current climate impact trends will exacerbate existing problems regarding water supply, biodiversity loss, flooding and salination. Situation The 600km
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Mountains demo site
Prognosis Rapid climate change impacts will lead to increasing conflicts in water and land usage, for this reason IMPETUS is
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Boreal demo site
Prognosis 2050 By the middle of this century, increasing agricultural development will intensify pollution and biodiversity loss, while climate change
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Mediterranean demo site
Situation: The region of Attica in Greece has around 3.7 million inhabitants in a 3,8 thousand km2 area that includes
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Atlantic demo site
Prognosis Current climate trends will exacerbate flooding risks – from rising sea levels and more frequent extreme weather – and
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Arctic demo site
Prognosis 260 % higher losses from disasters such as landslides in the past ten years, compared to the previous 30
Pan-European Solutions
IMPETUS is also developing several “Pan-European” tools that can be used in any European territory to support climate resilience:
- The Hot-spot Identification and Prioritization Service – HIPS * is a service for identifying and prioritizing European NUTS-level regions that are exposed to climate risks, and are vulnerable or have low adaptation capacity. Users can explore various datasets and combine them to perform climate hot-spot analysis.
*Please note that the service is still in beta phase. A more complete version will be provided in due course.