Workplan

SCORE is built on 11 Work Packages conducted over 4 phases:

Empathise & Define

Identification of the needs & barriers of all involved stakeholders concerning the climate resilience problems they are facing, and for which the 'solutions' will be developed and tested.

ideate & co-design

Stakeholders are brought together to co-create the solution. This phase continues in an iterative way until all involved stakeholders are happy with the so-called MVP (Minimal Viable Product).

prototype & pilot

The MVP is placed in real life settings within the relevant CCLLs. Small local pilots will be conducted to test if the solution is responding to all stakeholder needs.

test & evaluate

The solution is tested by a larger feedback group and the impact of the solutions is being evaluated.

See the detailed process here

WP 1

Mapping the baseline exposure and risk of extreme climate impacts on coastal cities

WP1 will produce a high-level baseline risk map of extreme climate impacts and sea-level rise based on a semi-quantitative assessment of exposure and vulnerability for the CCLLs.

WP 2

Coastal City Living Labs Design, Implementation, and Evaluation

WP2 acts as the focal point for all SCORE activities: it will design, implement, and evaluate a novel Coastal City Living Lab (CCLL) framework, which combines ecosystem-based approaches (EBAs) with smart technologies (e.g. sensors, digital twin solutions) under a living lab methodology, in 10 coastal cities to enhance climate change adaptation and resilience.

WP 3

Regional and Local Projections, Analyses, Modelling and Uncertainties

WP3 will build on previous European initiatives to produce a reliable dataset of climate

and sea level projections with high temporal and spatial resolution for all CCLLs. Local hydrodynamic models, defined on high-resolution digital terrain maps, will enable local coastal flooding projections under different water level scenarios according to various meteo-marine forcing terms, average sea level trends and astronomical components. These models will be used in WP6 and WP7 to evaluate the EBAs and other types of interventions, and to evaluate CCLL climate resilience.

WP 4

CCLL co-warning and co-monitoring

WP4 aims at empowering citizens with low-cost sensors for citizen science activities and raising their awareness on the topic of EBAs. It will have the outcome of complementing the data from institutional sensors (e.g. meteorological agencies) with data from low-cost sensors, capturing more detailed spatial and temporal data in

localized high-risk areas. This data will be used to produce more robust coastal city early-warning systems.

WP 5

Pre/post-EBA Interventions Evidence Collection and Knowledge Marketplace

WP5 deals with the development and management of an ICT platform (termed SIP), featuring the SCORE database, which contains all the data and models generated from all the SCORE WPs, together with relevant interfaces which will collect, store and share the heterogeneous data acquired and processed during the SCORE project, while ensuring FAIR data management. In particular, the SIP platform will ensure long-term data storage and will therefore represent an efficient tool for sharing knowledge on EBAs.

WP 6

Strategies to increase the financial resilience of coastal cities

Pre/post-EBA Interventions Evidence Collection and Knowledge Marketplace

WP6 will build upon data and knowledge produced in other WPs to assess the efficiency of the EBA interventions and to develop risk assessment tools with the aim of estimating the residual risk faced by the coastal cities after the implementation of the proposed EBAs. These tools will be applied to develop strategies for the achievement of financial sustainability within an integrated coastal zone management framework.

WP 7

Socio-economic assessment of adaptation strategies and policy recommendations

WP7 will design and perform a socio-economic assessment of current and potential EBA interventions in the CCLLs through a participatory and expert-led evaluation and prioritisation of the selected adaptation solutions.

This assessment will focus on the financial costs and benefits of EBAs, as well as on their impact in terms of ecosystem services (e.g. provision, regulating and cultural services), providing the necessary methodological setup to ensure the replicability of the analysis to other coastal urban areas. In addition, WP7 will formulate a set of policy recommendations to assist decision making in climate change adaptation at the local, national and EU level.

WP 8

Development of integrated early warning support and spatial digital twin solution prototypes

WP8 will develop GIS-based digital twin solution prototypes, which will provide a virtual environment in which different climate change scenarios and actions can be visualized and optimum solutions identified. A digital platform will be developed to run multiple models of each coastal city as a Big Cyber-Physical System, integrating data from SIP, including the baseline and climate projection models (WP1, WP3), the EBA database (WP5), risk assessment tools (WP6), socio-economic data (WP7) and sensor data from established sources as well as the networks of low-cost sensors developed in WP4. AI and Big Data algorithms will be utilized for data mining of this complex system, providing real-time analytics and corrective intervention actions to improve the coastal city climate resilience taking into account socio-economic and financial factors. The “Early Warning Processing” module will perform specific short-term forecasts on weather conditions, evaluating how these will impact the city and its inhabitants (e.g. forecasting of street closures due to heavy rain and impact on traffic flow). The digital prototypes will assist local and national governance in resilience management strategies, allowing considering of demographics, water supply, climate and land use changes, adaptation measures and coastal ecosystem services.

WP 9

Dissemination, communication, exploitation

WP9 will raise awareness of the project activities and outcomes through widespread communication and dissemination activities, including the benefits and impact of the developed EBAs and smart technologies, by informing and engaging relevant stakeholders and citizens. WP9 will also identify the potential different routes for innovation and exploitation of the project results in order to maximize the

project’s impact and legacy.

WP 10

Coordination and management

WP10 will ensure efficient implementation across SCORE with an inclusive governance and management structure, so that the objectives are met within the constraints of time, quality, and budget, and all the project partners work together to achieve the goals. It will also define clear policies for data management and intellectual property rights that allow for joint exploitation of results and avoid conflicts between partners.

WP 11

Ethics requirements

WP11 sets out the 'ethics requirements' that the project must comply with, including procedures and criteria that will be used to identify/recruit research participants and informed consent procedures that will be implemented for the participation of humans.

Workplan

SCORE is built on 11 Work Packages conducted over 4 phases:

WP 1

Mapping the baseline exposure and risk of extreme climate impacts on coastal cities

WP 2

Coastal City Living Labs Design, Implementation, and Evaluation

WP 3

Regional and Local Projections, Analyses, Modelling and Uncertainties

WP 4

CCLL co-warning and co-monitoring

WP 5

Pre/post-EBA Interventions Evidence Collection and Knowledge Marketplace

WP 6

Strategies to increase the financial resilience of coastal cities

WP 7

Socio-economic assessment of adaptation strategies and policy recommendations

WP 8

Development of integrated early warning support and spatial digital twin solution prototypes

WP 9

Dissemination, communication, exploitation

WP 10

Coordination and management

WP 11

Ethics requirements

Coordinator
Dr Salem Gharbia

About us

CCLLs

Outputs

Resources

News

Contact

Workplan

SCORE is built on 11 Work Packages conducted over 4 phases:

WP 1

Mapping the baseline exposure and risk of extreme climate impacts on coastal cities

WP 2

Coastal City Living Labs Design, Implementation, and Evaluation

WP 3

Regional and Local Projections, Analyses, Modelling and Uncertainties

WP 4

CCLL co-warning and co-monitoring

WP 5

Pre/post-EBA Interventions Evidence Collection and Knowledge Marketplace

WP 6

Strategies to increase the financial resilience of coastal cities

WP 7

Socio-economic assessment of adaptation strategies and policy recommendations

WP 8

Development of integrated early warning support and spatial digital twin solution prototypes

WP 9

Dissemination, communication, exploitation

WP 10

Coordination and management

WP 11

Ethics requirements

CoordinatorDr Salem Gharbia

About us

CCLLs

Outputs

Resources

News

Contact

Coordinator
Dr Salem Gharbia