Development of municipal strategies and action plans to improve heat resilience in cities

Programme 2021 - 2027 Interreg VI-B Central Europe

Date of latest update: 2025-03-13

Description

Description (EN):

Project is addressing a problem, caused by the Earth’s climate warming. Hotter-than-usual days and nights are becoming more common and heat waves are expected to become more frequent and intense. Most of the cities are not prepared well for such heat waves and the project is aiming for establishment of a municipal heat strategies and action plans, intended to ensure the protection of the population and thus reduce the morbidity and mortality rate during such hot periods. Previous projects mainly look at the long-term adaptation of cities to climate challenges. Innovative aspect is that the strategy looks at short-, medium- and long-term measures. A special focus is on the short measures as they can be implemented during the sudden heat waves. Partners from city of Worms (DE), Hajdúböszörmény (HU), Weiz (AT) and Maribor (SI) and their technical partners skilled in climate change and health issues are joint to tackle the transnational challenges and helps reduce regional disparities and increases cohesion in their cities what will build capacities and enables each territory to learn from the others. The strategies will be adopted and measures to prevent risk will be rolled-up. The cities will introduce also the new services such as heat warning system to alert during the acute heat waves. The key actors such as health centres and hospitals will enhance their capacities as they will obtain a knowledge on how to act and will also sustain local network groups to help the vulnerable groups in the future. These are primarily older and very old people, people with chronic illnesses and impairments, but also children and pregnant women, people working outside. They will benefit from the implemented measures planned in the action plans and from the pilot actions: wooden pergola with the plants (SI), cooling green urban island (HU), cooling the rooms using the existing district heating system (AT) and deploy the actors in the city district in the active network (DE).

Actual Achievements (EN):

As part of the project to develop city strategies for adapting to heat waves, the partners have made significant progress. They began by creating a comprehensive Strategy and Action Plan concept, which provided guidelines for structuring the strategies for Weiz, Maribor, and Hajdúböszörmény. Workshops were organized to train partners on strategy preparation, including lessons from the city of Worms on involving stakeholders. An analysis of heat hotspots in pilot cities helped identify critical areas for action, and initial stakeholder meetings laid the groundwork for a series of nine workshops. These workshops provided valuable input for the strategy preparation, with joint activities ensuring consistent stakeholder involvement and effective action planning. In preparation for implementing pilot activities, the partners collaborated to enhance pilot concepts and develop key performance indicators (KPIs). They used online tools to share proposals and improve pilot designs. The leading partner, along with Climate Alliance Styria, coordinated the development of stakeholder questionnaires to gather qualitative data. Additionally, the project established a communication approach to engage citizens and vulnerable groups through social media and existing websites. Climate Alliance provided content for posts, which partners adapted and published, ensuring consistent project communication and outreach. This cooperative effort has significantly advanced the project's objectives and enhanced the overall strategy development and implementation process.

Project outputs: Municipal heat strategies and action plan for mitigation of the heat waves(EN)
Partnership cooperation(EN)
Pilot approaches to mitigate heat waves and make city more resilient for vulnerable people(EN)
Solutions recommended for better planning the measures against heat waves.(EN)
Website: https://www.interreg-central.eu/projects/ready4heat/

Thematic information

Managing natural and man-made threats, risk management Climate change and biodiversity

Priority: (VI-B_CE_2) Cooperating for a greener central Europe

Priority specific objective: RSO2.4. Promoting climate change adaptation and disaster risk prevention and resilience, taking into account eco-system based approaches

Priority policy objective (Interreg specific objective): PO2 A greener, low-carbon transitioning towards a net zero carbon economy and resilient Europe by promoting clean and fair energy transition, green and blue investment, the circular economy, climate change mitigation and adaptation, risk prevention and management, and sustainable urban mobility

Type of intervention: 060 Adaptation to climate change measures and prevention and management of climate related risks: others, e.g. storms and drought (including awareness raising, civil protection and disaster management systems, infrastructures and ecosystem based approaches)

Partners (9)

Lead Partner: Razvojna agencija Sinergija

PIC (Participant Identification Code): 951362130

Partner’s ID if not PIC: SI42427444 | / | / (EN)

Address: Kranjčeva, 9226 Moravske Toplice, Slovenia

Department address: Slovenia

Legal status: public

Organisation type: Sectoral agency

Website: https://www.ra-sinergija.si/

Total budget: EUR 294 700.00

Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 235 760.00

Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 80.00%

Partner contribution: EUR 58 940.00

Hajdúböszörmény Város Önkormányzata

Name: Hajdúböszörmény Város Önkormányzata

PIC (Participant Identification Code): 938483828

Partner’s ID if not PIC: HU15728331 | / | / (EN)

Address: Bocskai István tér, 4220 Hajdúböszörmény, Hungary

Department address: Hungary

Legal status: public

Organisation type: Local public authority

Website: http://www.hajduboszormeny.hu

Total budget: EUR 301 819.30

Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 241 455.44

Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 80.00%

Partner contribution: EUR 60 363.86

Contractors:

Name: Dr. Berecz Orsolya T.K.Sz. Kft
VAT registration or tax identification number: 24194927-2-09
Name: Tömb 2002 Kft
VAT registration or tax identification number: 22757937-2-09
Name: Zöld Kör
VAT registration or tax identification number: 19128111-1-09
Name: Margaréta-Kert Kft.
VAT registration or tax identification number: 13,888226-2-09
Name: Daróczi András e.v.
VAT registration or tax identification number: 15728331-2-09

Reflex KörnyezetvédőEgyesület

Name: Reflex KörnyezetvédőEgyesület

PIC (Participant Identification Code): 923110007

Partner’s ID if not PIC: HU19104030 | / | / (EN)

Address: Bartók B. u. , 9024 Győr, Hungary

Department address: Hungary

Legal status: public

Organisation type: Interest groups including NGOs

Website: http://reflexegyesulet.hu/

Total budget: EUR 180 012.00

Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 144 009.60

Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 80.00%

Partner contribution: EUR 36 002.40

Stadtgemeinde Weiz

Name: Stadtgemeinde Weiz

Department: Location development Weiz

Partner’s ID if not PIC: ATU69182360

Address: Hauptplatz, 8160 Weiz, Austria

Department address: Austria

Legal status: public

Organisation type: Local public authority

Website: http://www.weiz.at

Total budget: EUR 220 080.00

Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 176 064.00

Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 80.00%

Partner contribution: EUR 44 016.00

Contractors:

Name: ECOsmart GmbH
VAT registration or tax identification number: ATU 69472634
Name: W.E.I.Z. GmbH
VAT registration or tax identification number: ATU 67305668

Klimabündnis Steiermark

Name: Klimabündnis Steiermark

Partner’s ID if not PIC: ATU76951201 | / | / (EN)

Address: Schumanngasse, 8010 Graz, Austria

Department address: Austria

Legal status: public

Organisation type: Interest groups including NGOs

Website: http://www.klimabuendnis.at/steiermark

Total budget: EUR 197 400.00

Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 157 920.00

Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 80.00%

Partner contribution: EUR 39 480.00

Stadtverwaltung Worms - Umweltschutz und Landwirtschaft Klimaschutz und Anpassung an den Klimawandel

Name: Stadtverwaltung Worms - Umweltschutz und Landwirtschaft Klimaschutz und Anpassung an den Klimawandel

Department: Climate protection and adaptation to climate change

PIC (Participant Identification Code): 000000000

Partner’s ID if not PIC: 44/678/0800/1 | The city TAX number (EN)

Address: Marktplatz, 67547 Worms, Germany

Department address: Germany

Legal status: public

Organisation type: Local public authority

Website: https://www.worms.de

Total budget: EUR 220 000.00

Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 176 000.00

Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 80.00%

Partner contribution: EUR 44 000.00

Klima-Bündnis

Name: Klima-Bündnis

Department: Adaptation to climate change

PIC (Participant Identification Code): 988679582

Partner’s ID if not PIC: DE244331692 | / | / (EN)

Address: Galvanistr., 60486 Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Department address: Germany

Legal status: public

Organisation type: Interest groups including NGOs

Website: https://www.climatealliance.org

Total budget: EUR 210 000.00

Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 168 000.00

Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 80.00%

Partner contribution: EUR 42 000.00

Mestna Občina Maribor

Name: Mestna Občina Maribor

PIC (Participant Identification Code): 984134259

Partner’s ID if not PIC: SI12709590 | / | / (EN)

Address: Ulica Heroja Staneta , 2000 Maribor, Slovenia

Department address: Slovenia

Legal status: public

Organisation type: Local public authority

Website: http://www.maribor.si

Total budget: EUR 219 523.00

Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 175 618.40

Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 80.00%

Partner contribution: EUR 43 904.60

Contractors:

Name: Energap, Energ. podnebna ag.
VAT registration or tax identification number: SI 31306543 tax ident.
Name: M-Kaiser d.o.o.
VAT registration or tax identification number: SI 85264504

Center za zdravje in razvoj Murska Sobota

Name: Center za zdravje in razvoj Murska Sobota

PIC (Participant Identification Code): 939916421

Partner’s ID if not PIC: SI62966430 | / | / (EN)

Address: Ulica arhitekta Novaka, 9000 Murska Sobota, Slovenia

Department address: Slovenia

Legal status: public

Organisation type: Higher education and research organisations

Website: http://www.czr.si

Total budget: EUR 199 500.00

Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 159 600.00

Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 80.00%

Partner contribution: EUR 39 900.00

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Summary

Project name (EN): Development of municipal strategies and action plans to improve heat resilience in cities

Project acronym: Ready4Heat

Project ID: CE0100067

Project start date: 2023-03-01

Project end date: 2026-02-28

Project status: ongoing

Relevant linked projects:

LIFE LOCAL ADAPT, Life programme (EN) | Six project partners from four European member states will bring in their valuable experience and proficiency into LIFE LOCAL ADAPT. In the course of the five-year EU-project they will strive to enhance the capacity of municipalities to cope with the impact of climate change. In Styria 5 cities and municipalities are being supported in this project by the federal government of Styria. The Ready4Heat project will use results of the Life Local Adapt project in order the build upon those results. (EN), The preparation of the Worms Heat Action Plan, German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (EN) | The project operates within a policy framework based on the recommendations of the WHO and, at the federal level, on the German Adaptation Strategy. In Germany, there is currently a great interest in gathering practical experience in this field at the municipal level. The City of Worms already brings a high level of expertise in the field of developing heat action plans and now needs practical input from other cities to move forward with their own plan. Synergies arise in the knowledge transfer made possible by such a project. (EN), C-TRACK 50 project, Horizon 2020 (EN) | The document entitled Sustainable Energy and Climate Policy Action Plan 2050 was also prepared for Hajdúböszörmény within the framework of the C-TRACK 50 project, which can provide a suitable starting point for the initiatives and measures planned in this application. (EN), TOTI DCA, local funds (EN) | The TOTI DCA centre of daily activities for the Elderly includes seniors in free activities such as exercise, handicrafts, literary creation, painting workshop, master workshop, photography workshop, foreign language learning, gardening, field trips, games, and more. Almost 40 free activities are carried out by professional activity leaders – volunteers for almost 400 users on two locations. In this way, TOTI DCA activates older people to spend their time actively, which has a positive effect on the physical health of the participants. (EN), FUTURE CITIES OF SOUTH EAST EUROPE, EIT Climate KIC (EN) | Deep Demonstrations are the large-scale projects through which EIT offers ‘systems innovation as a service’ model to Europe’s most ambitious ‘challenge owners’ – i.e. the mayors, government ministries, industries and community leaders, and funders who have the means and mandate to tackle Europe’s biggest climate change challenges. Maribor is one of these cities that work to make these cities into some of the best possible places in Europe to live, work and visit by 2025. In May 2021, there was a workshop with all participant cities and their respective key local stakeholders on portfolio development in Nature-based Solutions (NbS). The aim was to help assess the opportunity space in growing urban NbS and barriers to development, as well as ascertaining the feasibility of proposed city projects. (EN), BiodiverCities, Joint Research Centre and DG Environment (EN) | BiodiverCities is a Maribor’s project in the context of the EU Biodiversity Strategy. It aims to enhance civil society participation in local and urban decision-making, leading to building a joint vision of the green city of tomorrow shared among civil society, scientists, and policymakers. The project will collect practical examples of how to engage citizens in vision building around urban nature, monitoring, and solutions to improve urban biodiversity. It will also assess how urban green infrastructure can be used to provide local benefits for people and nature and how it can contribute to enhancing regional biodiversity. This pilot project aims at enhancing the use of green infrastructure in urban contexts, with a view to contributing to solving many challenges cities currently face. A further goal is to increase scientific knowledge and improve knowledge sharing, tools, methods, and innovative approaches to enhance biodiversity and the planning and implementation of green infrastructure. BiodiverCities is implemented by the Joint Research Centre and DG Environment. The project will implement this work through workshops or other formats to engage citizens that are organized by participating cities. Maribor will use the results in making the green pergola in the kindergarten as the pilot action. Some workshops can be also joint. (EN), City assembly Initiative (IMZ) - self-organized neighbourhood and local communities of Maribor (EN) | Initiative City Assembly (IMZ) is a group that promotes political and non-partisan engagement of people in public policy-making in their local community and beyond. They see the solution in an empowered public that can respond critically, directly and creatively to the shortcomings of the socio-political system through self-organisation, collective debate, education, mutual information and collective action. This is why the IMZ devotes a major part of its activities to opening a public space for debate in the form of assemblies of self-organised neighbourhood and local communities in Maribor, where citizens discuss their neighbourhoods and develop community activities by consensus to implement the decisions taken. This form of direct involvement of residents in community affairs is followed by the IMZ's efforts to establish the principle of participatory budgeting, which, as a form of direct participation of the people in the spending of budget funds, should become an established practice of direct democracy in local communities. Tactical Guerrilla environmental projects (pointing out missing trees in roadside trees, etc.), Eco - planting of trees: planting of the Radvanj Stream bank - 280 trees, 560 bamboos), Volunteering, partly co-financed by the ILO. Miyawaki mini urban forest - renovation of a degraded urban area of a residential neighbourhood, creation of biodiversity and shelter for pollinators in the city, protective green barrier (CO2 sink, storm water sinking, wind buffering, creation of noise and dust protection, cooling of the atmosphere - microclimate...). Co-financing by ILO. (EN), UGB, INTERREG Central Europe (EN) | Maribor was one of the pilot cities as a community involvement pilot in UGB project. In the city the stakeholder group has been established for the successful, sustainable development and management of urban green spaces that requires integrated planning and maintenance. This is a process that involves varied input from multiple stakeholders — local decision-making bodies, experts, citizens, the business community, etc. The community involvement model provides methods and easy-to-use tools for local authorities that will help to engage them. The established structures and tools can be used for the workshops debating on the heat and health issues in the city. (EN)

Total budget/expenditure: EUR 2 043 034.30

Total EU funding (amount): EUR 1 634 427.44

Total EU funding (co-financing rate): 80.00%

Co-financing sources:

ERDF: Amount, EUR 1 634 427.44. Co-financing rate, 80.00%.

Investments, deliverables, policy contributions

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Infrastructure investments:

I2.1 - Public Green Islands in Hajdúböszörmény - EUR 16 450.00 - country: Magyarország (HU), town: Hajdúböszörmény, street: Bocskai tér, 1, postal_code: 4220, Észak-Alföld (HU32), Hajdú-Bihar (HU321)

Deliverables:

Strategy and Action plan concept development
Train the trainer
Analise of the areas
Establishment of the local stakeholder network
Report on the citizen engagement
Development of the strategy and action plan
Enactment of the strategy and action plans
Set of the quantitate and qualitative KPIs
Concept on the pilot action implementation
Establishing of a municipal heat action plan steering group
Report on the pilot implementation
Establishment of a heat warning system
Advanced trainings for actors working with vulnerable groups
Evaluation of the pilot action
Solutions recommended to improve sustainability of the heat measures
Report on the local/regional/national policy upstreaming engagement
Transnational webinar on action plan development
Transnational webinar on project results

Contribution to wider strategies and policies:

EuropeanGreenDeal One of the highlights of the Green Deal is boosting global climate action. The effects of climate change are already being felt, and so we must adapt more quickly and comprehensively. The strategy therefore focuses on developing and rolling out adaptation solutions to help reduce climate-related risk, increase climate protection. The municipal heat strategy and action plan is document that will include also short-term measures that can step in force immediately, so taking actions forward will be quick (heat warning system).
TerritorialAgenda2030 One of the objectives is A Green Europe - that protects common livelihoods and shapes societal transition, its priority is Healthy Environment - Better ecological livelihoods, climate-neutral and resilient towns, cities and regions. To respect the natural limits of Europe’s common livelihoods and increase the resilience of all places impacted by climate change. The pilot actions and heat strategies will address right these priorities and mitigate the climate changes.
EUStrategyDanubeRegion Priority 2 (A greener, low carbon Danube Region) with Specific Objective 2.2 intends to promote climate change adaptation capacities in the Danube Region and disaster management in relation to transnationally relevant environmental risks (floods, droughts, accidental pollution of rivers, wild fires), taking into account ecosystem-based approaches. The main focus areas are: supporting harmonised, joint capacities and data availability in Danube Region scale climate change forecasting and vulnerability assessment to support policy making and awareness raising. Ready4Heat can contribute to the objective with its results, outputs and knowledge, experiences that can be shared through the project webinars in order to increase the capacities of the involve player in this region.
EUStrategyBalticSeaRegion Policy area - A Health focusses on the actions such as: 1. Engaging and better utilizing stakeholders from other sectors to promote a health in all policies approach with focus on the impact of environmental factors, and especially climate change on human health; and 2. Increasing stakeholder and institutional capacity to tackle regional health challenges. Both actions are in line with the project and will contribute to the implementation of the strategy with the development of the multisectoral methodological concept to prepare the heat strategy and action plan (in the process various sectors will be involved for health, social, climate, weather). Ready4Heat can contribute to the objective with its results, outputs and knowledge, experiences that can be shared through the project webinars in order to increase the capacities of the involve player in this region.
EUStrategyAlpineRegion The Alpine space not directly addresses the health and heat issues. But it does tackle the challenges of the climate changes which is also the problem in Ready4Heat, however our project deals more with the consequences of the climate change and it seeks for the solutions that would mitigate the heat waves that are caused by the climate change. Objective 3 of the strategy ensures the sustainability in the Alps and support the use of natural resources and exploitation of their potential need in an environmentally friendly way. By doing this the threats to population could be reduced. Action group 8 also aims at improving risk management and better managing climate change by stocktaking of relevant actors and interests, mapping and enhancing governance structures and processes in the policy fields of risk/hazard management and climate change adaptation – this is the same that our project will conduct – the heat strategy and action plan will improve the capacities on the local governmental level.

Programme Common Output Indicator:

RCO 084 - Pilot actions developed jointly and implemented in projects, Measurement unit:
RCO 116 - Jointly developed solutions, Measurement unit:
RCO 083 - Strategies and action plans jointly developed, Measurement unit:
RCO 087 - Organisations cooperating across borders, Measurement unit:

Delivered output indicator(s):

(RCO87) Organisations cooperating across borders: 18.0

Programme Common Result Indicator:

RCR 084 - Organisations cooperating across borders after project completion, Measurement unit:
RCR 104 - Solutions taken up or up-scaled by organisations, Measurement unit:
RCR 079 - Joint strategies and action plans taken up by organisations, Measurement unit:

Project part of European Union Macro-Regional or Sea Basin Strategy: EUSBSR

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Project part of European Union Macro-Regional or Sea Basin Strategy: EUSALP

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Project part of European Union Macro-Regional or Sea Basin Strategy: EUSDR

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2021 - 2027 Interreg VI-B Central Europe

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2025-03-31

No. of projects in keep.eu / Total no. of projects (% of projects in keep.eu)

100 / 100 (100%)

No. of project partnerships in keep.eu / Total no. of project partnerships (% of project partnerships in keep.eu)

1 017 / 1 074 (94.69%)

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Development of municipal strategies and action plans to improve heat resilience in cities

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