Sector
Heat, flood and drought adaptation, nature-based solutions, risk assessment and civil protection planning.
Pipeline
What European cities are preparing in this sector, with stage, investment and procurement window.
Thessaloniki Greece
DEMOSummer night-time temperatures in the densest districts stay high enough to affect health outcomes, and the city has no district-level evidence base.
Skopje North Macedonia
DEMOWinter particulate levels are among the highest in Europe, and the city cannot attribute them to sources with enough confidence to act.
Valencia Spain
DEMOPublic green space is irrigated with potable water in a region under recurring drought restriction.
Gdansk Poland
DEMOShort high-intensity rainfall now overwhelms the combined system in the lower city several times each year.
Izmir Turkiye
DEMOCoastal assets are assessed individually, under different sea level assumptions, with no single view of exposure.
Iasi Romania
DEMOFlash flooding along the river corridor now reaches occupied buildings, and the warning time available to residents is under thirty minutes.
Funding
Calls whose scope covers this sector, with the ESCA assessment of what each instrument suits.
Funds learning and policy change rather than infrastructure. Useful where the obstacle is the local rulebook, not the capital.
The most accessible EU instrument for adaptation work that is too small for cohesion programming and too specific for national funds.
Intelligence
Annual assessment of what European cities are preparing, what is funding it, and where preparation capacity is the binding constraint rather than capital.
Academy
Turning a risk assessment into a sequence of interventions that can be funded and built.
Expertise
Adaptation planner
Greece
Urban heat and flood adaptation in Mediterranean and continental contexts.
Working languages English, Greek, French
Network
Listed by category. Membership is a relationship with ESCA and implies no endorsement of any organisation.
Belgium
Research consortium contributing method and peer review to ESCA Intelligence.
Scope of the partnership Joint method development and peer review of ESCA reports. No financial relationship in either direction.
Poland
Member city. Contributes to the water and resilience working group.
Poland
Regional authority supporting municipal project preparation across the voivodeship.
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