The University of Samsun to take part in €10M Horizon 2020 project
The University of Samsun to take part in €10M Horizon 2020 project to increase climate resilience in European coastal cities
The University of Samsun has announced it is taking part in a newly launched €10 million euro Horizon 2020 project that aims to increase climate resilience in European coastal cities.
The four-year project, SCORE (Smart Control of the Climate Resilience in European Coastal Cities), outlines a comprehensive strategy, developed via a network of 10 coastal city ‘living labs’, to rapidly, equitably and sustainably enhance coastal city climate resilience though an Ecosystem-Based Approach (EBA) supported by sophisticated digital technologies.
The intensification of extreme weather events, coastal erosion and sea-level rise are major challenges to be urgently addressed by European coastal cities. Deaths caused by extreme weather in Europe could rise from 3,000 a year between 1981 and 2010 to 152,000 between 2071 and 2100 if mitigation pathways are not enacted to increase the resilience of European cities and settlements, based on a study in The Lancet Planetary Health journal.
To tackle this challenge, Dr Salem Gharbia from the Institute of Technology Sligo (Ireland), will lead a consortium of international scientific institutions, cities, and SMEs in a new €10m Horizon 2020-funded research project to increase climate resilience in European coastal cities.
The SCORE interdisciplinary team consists of 28 world-leading organisations from academia, local authorities, RPOs, and SMEs encompassing a wide range of skills including environmental science and policy, climate modelling, citizen and social science, data management, coastal management and engineering, security and technological aspects of smart sensing research.
The project will involve citizen science in providing prototype coastal city early-warning systems and will enable smart, instant monitoring and control of climate resilience in European coastal cities through open, accessible spatial ‘digital twin’ tools.
Along with Samsun, the project seeks to advance the control of climate resilience in cities in Ireland, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Slovenia and Poland.
After a recent “Kick-Off” meeting with academics from across Europe, Dr.Neslihan Beden said: SCORE will provide Europe with extensible and transferable solutions to increase climate resilience to extreme events in coastal cities. As the city of Samsun, it is very proud to be a part of the project. Together with our partners, we will build a network of coastal cities that will work together and learn from each other to tackle climate change. At SCORE, we want to make every effort and cooperation to reduce the impacts of climate change now and in the years to come.”
Local partner in the Horizon 2020 SCORE research project the University of Samsun is delighted to be part of this important opportunity to protect our coastal cities against a growing concern in climate change. Dr. Neslihan Beden on the behalf of SAMU Research Team said; SCORE aims to establish solid and productive collaborations between academia, industry and local government. By combining our 28 partners and different areas of expertise towards a common goal, we will address the key climate challenges facing European coastal cities and create solutions.
SCORE will establish an integrated coastal zone management framework for strengthening the Ecosystem-Based solutions and smart coastal city policies, creating European leadership in coastal city climate change adaptation in line with The Paris Agreement.
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ABOUT SCORE PROJECT
Smart Control of the Climate Resilience in European Coastal Cities (SCORE)
SCORE is a €10m Horizon 2020-funded research project to increase climate resilience in European coastal cities lead by Dr Salem Gharbia of the School of Engineering & Design at IT Sligo.
The overall aim of SCORE is to design, develop, monitor and validate robust adaptation measures in coastal and low-lying areas to protect them from increasing climate and sea level risks, including coastal flooding and erosion, to enhance their overall long-term resilience.
SCORE outlines a co-creation strategy, developed via a network of 10 coastal city ‘living labs’ (CCLLs), to rapidly, equitably and sustainably enhance coastal city climate resilience through Ecosystem-Based Approach (EBAs) and sophisticated digital technologies. SCORE will establish an integrated coastal zone management framework for strengthening EBA and smart coastal city policies, creating European leadership in coastal city climate change adaptation in line with The Paris Agreement.
SCORE will provide innovative platforms to empower stakeholders’ deployment of EBAs to increase climate resilience, business opportunities and financial sustainability of coastal cities.
The SCORE interdisciplinary team consists of 28 world-leading organisations from academia, local authorities, RPOs, and SMEs encompassing a wide range of skills including environmental science and policy, climate modelling, citizen and social science, data management, coastal management and engineering, security and technological aspects of smart sensing research.
SCORE is a four-year project starting in July 2021.
The project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 101003534”.
List of coastal city living labs involved in the SCORE Horizon 2020 project:
Sligo and Dublin, Ireland; Barcelona/Vilanova i la Geltrú, Benidorm and Basque Country, Spain; Oeiras, Portugal; Massa, Italy; Koper, Slovenia; Gdansk, Poland; Samsun, Turkey