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The selection committee has announced the results of the first open call of the CLIMAAX project which supplies up to EUR 300,000 lump sum funding per selected proposal on 15 July 2024. Overall, 33 European regions pave the way to improve their climate resilience through funding from the first open call of the CLIMAAX project. The selected regions belong to 14 countries and will receive more than EUR 5.5 million cumulated funding to perform a regional Climate Risk Assessment.
The selected beneficiaries – primarily public regional and local institutions – must be established in any EU Member States and their Overseas Countries and Territories or Horizon Europe Associated Countries (i.e. also the Western Balkans). Greece counts the largest number of selected proposals (6, maximum per each country), followed by Bulgaria, Portugal, and Turkey (4). Three selected proposals came from Romania, two from Georgia, Italy, and Slovakia, one from Albania, France, Hungary, Netherlands Antilles (Curaçao), Serbia, and Spain.
Albania: Municipality of Tirana as beneficiary organisation for the project TRA4CRA³ “Tirana for Climate Risk Assessment and Adaptation Actions Albania”
Serbia: Provincial Secretariat for Urban Planning and Environmental protection as beneficiary organisation for the project CLIMACHANGE “Adapt on clime change in APV Serbia”
119 proposals were submitted. After an initial check, 16 submitted proposals were deemed non-eligible. After the 103 eligible applications were reviewed on the basis of an in/out scope screening, 10 were out of scope and 93 were considered evaluable. The applications were evaluated according to the criteria of Relevance, Impact and Implementation – each criterion scores from 0 to 5 points. Unfortunately, 22 proposals did not meet the overall minimum threshold of 10 points (as the sum of the three criteria scores) or did not reach the minimum for each individual criterion (3 points). The 71 applications that scored above the threshold received additional points to the overall score to prioritize regions or communities with high vulnerability and low adaptive capacity to climate change. This aspect was evaluated following the regional composed Vulnerability Index produced by the JRC Disaster Risk Management Knowledge Centre. The EU grant contribution that each applicant may receive is based on a lump sum scheme applying a Country Correction Coefficient (CCC) that considers the country in which the third party is located. The maximum amount of financial support ranges between EUR 115.227 and EUR 300.000.
Given the nature of the works required for the implementation, the grant is foreseen to be executed with the assistance of external services by the public authorities/institutions. This shall require the preparation of dedicated public procurements following the national procedures to acquire complementary technical knowledge needed to implement the regional/local multi-risk Climate Risk Assessments (CRA) in most of the sub-projects.
Applicants who were not selected in the first one are welcome to participate in the second Open Call, which will close on 15 October 2024.
More information is available on the source page of this news: https://www.climaax.eu/results-of-the-first-open-call/, the related press release and list of beneficiaries. CLIMAAX has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe – the Framework Programme for Research and Innovation (2021-2027) under grant agreement No. 101093864.