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Smart Spending for Safer Shores: How Vilanova is Using Data to Boost Climate Resilience
One challenge in climate adaptation is determining the optimal timing and approach for investments to maximise returns. As such, SCORE developed two key results, financial risk profiles and a Decision Support System (DSS) to help municipalities assess climate-related risks and make informed financial planning decisions. What are risk profiles? The risk profiles, built on…
Read MoreSCORE comes to an end: A look back at our final event
On 17 June 2025, the SCORE project held its final event, titled “Innovative Solutions for Climate Change Adaptation in Coastal Areas: When Green and Digital Tools Meet Living Labs”. It was organised as a side event of the ECCA 2025 conference, Europe’s leading forum on climate change adaptation, held in Rimini, Italy. This event marked…
Read MoreSCORE’s final brochure: A lasting resource for coastal climate adaptation
As the SCORE project comes to an end, we are proud to present our final brochure , which brings together the project’s key achievements after four years of collaborative work on coastal resilience and climate adaptation strategies. This brochure offers a comprehensive overview of the project’s outcomes, including: The main results and achievements from of…
Read MoreSCORE Policy recommendations to assist decision-making in climate change adaptation at the local, national, and EU levels
After four years of collaborative work to enhance climate resilience in European coastal areas, the SCORE project’s ambition extends beyond developing nature-based solutions and digital tools. It also aims to create a lasting legacy by turning the lessons learned, research outcomes, and field experience into concrete recommendations for policy makers at every level (local, national,…
Read MoreNavigating Living Labs: Lessons learned
Navigating Living Labs: Lessons Learned from SCORE’s 10 Coastal City Living Labs Navigating Living Labs offers practical guidance drawn from the ten SCORE Coastal City Living Labs (CCLLs) on how best to create, implement, and evaluate a Coastal City Living Lab. Hear the valuable lessons learned by SCORE CCLLs themselves, who share real-world insights, challenges,…
Read MoreSCORE’s legacy: “As we conclude this four-year journey, I look to the future with optimism”
As we are reaching the end of the SCORE project in June 2025, our Project Coordinator Dr Salem Gharbia shares his thoughts about the legacy of the SCORE project. This text is the full version of the foreword included in the SCORE final press kit. “Climate change is no longer a distant threat; its impacts…
Read MoreMassa’s Digital Twin: Real-Time Resilience for Flood-Ready Cities
The Massa CCLL served as a key pilot site for the implementation of SCORE’s Digital Twin and Early Warning Support (DT-EWS) System. The DT-EWS system was designed to help municipalities monitor real-time conditions, simulate extreme weather events, and assess potential flood impacts. The aim is to improve urban resilience by providing an integrated platform that…
Read MoreSligo on the Edge: How Coastal Data and Community Science Drive Climate Resilience
A major challenge in effective climate adaptation is the lack of sufficient data and understanding of diverse climatic and geographic conditions. Within SCORE, this challenge was addressed through the generation of high-resolution climate and sea level projections tailored to local coastal challenges. To generate these models, all the CCLLs worked with local stakeholders to improve…
Read MoreSmart Shores: How Oeiras is Using Citizen Science to Monitor Coastal Change
SCORE set out to improve data availability within the CCLLs to better monitor coastal changes, ultimately strengthening decision-making tools and increasing climate resilience. To achieve this, the CCLLs engaged their wider stakeholder networks through sensor selection workshops. These workshops helped identify the most appropriate coastal sensors based on each CCLL’s priorities, whether that meant using…
Read MoreReviving the Past to Protect the Future: How Piran CCLL is Using Nature and Heritage to Tackle Climate Change
The Science The CCLLs, using the guidance and methodologies of SCORE, worked with stakeholders to co-create a list of priority Ecosystem-Based Adaptations (EBAs) to enhance climate resilience in their communities. EBAs, sometimes referred to as Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) are types of green infrastructure (i.e., green parks, marram grass, etc.). These adaptation approaches focus on ecosystem…
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