AdRIAtic-ionian Nature based solutioNs enhAncement
Programme 2021 - 2027 Interreg VI-B IPA Adriatic-IonianDescription
Pilot Testing of the TN toolkit on NBS Flood Prevention
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Creation of Arianna NBS Network
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TN toolkit on NBS floods prevention(EN)
Thematic information
Priority: (VI-B_IPA-A_2) Supporting a greener and climate resilient Adriatic-Ionian region
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: 058 Adaptation to climate change measures and prevention and management of climate related risks: floods and landslides (including awareness raising, civil protection and disaster management systems, infrastructures and ecosystem based approaches)
Partners (8)
Lead Partner: AGENZIA REGIONALE STRATEGICA PER LO SVILUPPO ECOSOSTENIBILE DEL TERRITORIO
Partner’s ID if not PIC: 93485840727
Address: Via Gentile,, 70126 Bari, Italy
Legal status: public
Organisation type: Regional public authority
Website: http://asset.regione.puglia.it/
Total budget: EUR 315 000.00
Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 267 750.00
Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 85.00%
Partner contribution: EUR 47 250.00
- Ministarstvo unutrašnjih poslova, Direktorat za zaštitu i spašavanje
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Name: Ministarstvo unutrašnjih poslova, Direktorat za zaštitu i spašavanje
Partner’s ID if not PIC: 02016010
Address: Bulevard Sv.Petra , 81000 Podgorica, Montenegro
Legal status: public
Organisation type: Local public authority
Total budget: EUR 150 000.00
Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 127 500.00
Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 85.00%
Partner contribution: EUR 22 500.00
- Qendra Burimore e Alternativave te Zhvillimit
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Name: Qendra Burimore e Alternativave te Zhvillimit
PIC (Participant Identification Code): 902364908
Partner’s ID if not PIC: L52407452V
Address: Rr. Gjik Kuqali, Pall Melrose, 1004 Tirane, Albania
Legal status: private
Organisation type: Interest groups including NGOs
Total budget: EUR 149 999.98
Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 127 499.98
Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 85.00%
Partner contribution: EUR 22 500.00
- Univerzitet u Novom Sadu, Prirodno-matematički fakultet
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Name: Univerzitet u Novom Sadu, Prirodno-matematički fakultet
PIC (Participant Identification Code): 997718624
Partner’s ID if not PIC: RS101635863
Address: Trg Dositeja Obradovića, 21000 Novi Sad, Serbia
Legal status: public
Organisation type: Higher education and research organisations
Website: http://www.pmf.uns.ac.rs
Total budget: EUR 150 090.00
Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 127 576.50
Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 85.00%
Partner contribution: EUR 22 513.50
- ΕΘΝΙΚΟ ΜΕΤΣΟΒΙΟ ΠΟΛΥΤΕΧΝΕΙΟ
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Name: ΕΘΝΙΚΟ ΜΕΤΣΟΒΙΟ ΠΟΛΥΤΕΧΝΕΙΟ
PIC (Participant Identification Code): 999978142
Address: HEROON POLYTECHNIOU 9 ZOGRAPHOU CAMPUS, 15780 Athens, Greece
Legal status: public
Organisation type: Higher education and research organisations
Website: http://www.ntua.gr
Total budget: EUR 180 000.00
Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 153 000.00
Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 85.00%
Partner contribution: EUR 27 000.00
- Javna vatrogasna postrojba Grada Petrinje
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Name: Javna vatrogasna postrojba Grada Petrinje
PIC (Participant Identification Code): 881457625
Partner’s ID if not PIC: 29038657151
Address: Vatrogasna ulica, 44250 Petrinja, Croatia
Legal status: public
Organisation type: Local public authority
Website: https://jvp-petrinja.hr/
Total budget: EUR 165 000.00
Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 140 250.00
Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 85.00%
Partner contribution: EUR 24 750.00
Contractors:
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Name: Eurowiz solutions d.o.o.
VAT registration or tax identification number: 79292006876
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Name: Eurowiz solutions d.o.o.
- Veleučilište Velika Gorica
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Name: Veleučilište Velika Gorica
PIC (Participant Identification Code): 949424264
Partner’s ID if not PIC: HR09032023114
Address: Zagrebačka, 10410 Velika Gorica, Croatia
Legal status: public
Organisation type: Higher education and research organisations
Website: https://vvg.hr/
Total budget: EUR 194 980.00
Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 165 733.00
Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 85.00%
Partner contribution: EUR 29 247.00
- Agenzia Regionale per la Ricostruzione – SISMA 2012 / Regione Emilia Romagna
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Name: Agenzia Regionale per la Ricostruzione – SISMA 2012 / Regione Emilia Romagna
Partner’s ID if not PIC: 02086690373
Address: V.le Aldo Moro, 40127 Bologna, Italy
Legal status: public
Organisation type: Regional public authority
Website: https://www.regione.emilia-romagna.it/terremoto
Total budget: EUR 192 750.24
Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 163 837.70
Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 85.00%
Partner contribution: EUR 28 912.54
Partners map
Lead partner
Project partner
Summary
Project acronym: ARIANNA
Project ID: IPA-ADRION00530
Project start date: 2024-09-01
Project end date: 2027-08-31
Project status: ongoing
Relevant linked projects:
- European Climate Pact (EN) | The awareness campaign aiming at increasing the community awareness about security measures during flooding events and about NBS which will be carried out within ARIANNA Project, as well as the Open Living Labs, will be implemented in synergy with the purposes of the European Climate Pact. In fact this EU initiative, as part of European Green Deal, focuses on public engagement on climate action, encouraging information sharing, inspiration, and fostering public understanding of the threat and the challenge of climate change and environmental degradation and on how to counter it by using multiple channels and tools including events in Member States, on the model of the Commission’s on-going citizens’ dialogues. ARIANNA Project will be particularly linked to the priority topic “Green areas”moving from the assumption that in order to build resilience against climate threats as well as to our health, more green areas are needed. Considering its purpose to build a climate-friendly society, the Project will be also aligned to the Climate Pact priority topic “Education and Awareness”, contributing to spreading knowledge scientifically sound, helping to translate science into options for everyday action. (EN), Climate Adaptation Platform and European Climate and Health Observator (EN) | ARIANNA Project will build synergies with the EU Climate Adaptation Platform, the EU platform for adaptation knowledge launched in 2012, and also with the European Climate and Health Observatory, joint initiative launched by the European Commission, in synergy with the European Environment Agency and many other organizations, to better understand, anticipate and minimize the health threats caused by climate change.
- In particular, it will make use of the information and tools provided by the Observatory, also in order to foster information exchange and cooperation between relevant actors.
- (EN), European Platform for Urban Greening (EPLUG) (EN) | The ARIANNA Project will be in synergy with the European Platform for Urban Greening (EPLUG), project financed under the Erasmus+ Programme: Key Action 3 ‘Support for Policy Reform, and aiming at intensifying the collaboration within the knowledge triangle (VET – Research & Development – Business) to develop high quality curricula and qualifications focused on urban greening skills, positively contributing to biodiversity, climate adaptation and well-being in the urban green environment. In particular, ARIANNA will build links with the EPLUG objective to facilitate translating scientific findings into practical conduct for green professionals, sharing the same purpose to address climate adaptation.
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Total budget/expenditure: EUR 1 497 820.22
Total EU funding (amount): EUR 1 273 147.18
Total EU funding (co-financing rate): 85.00%
Co-financing sources:
Investments, deliverables, policy contributions
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Deliverables:
- Roadmap on preparing State of the Art Reports
- State of the Art Reports
- Focus Group Feedback Reports
- Common Knowledge Framework
- Joint Report on NBS on Flood prevention
- Common roadmap
- Project Management Structure
- Communication Management Structure
- Kick Off Meeting
- Mid-Term Evaluation
- Final Conference
- Preliminary Study of the Pilot Area
- Feasibility and technical executive plan
- Report on Digital Twin for the simulation
- Pilot 1 implementation Report
- Report for multi-risk vulnerability assessment
- Report on NBS practices
- Pilot 2 implementation Report
- Urban flooding Report
- Procurement Report on flood rescue equipment
- Cluster Agreement
- Report on specialized training
- Pilot 3 implementation Report
- Common methodology
- Pilot 1 TN Evaluation Report and Position
- Pilot 2 TN Evaluation Report and Position Paper
- Pilot 3 TN Evaluation Report and Position Paper
- TN Focus Group
- Report on Stakeholders mapping
- Report on Capacity building activities
- Report on TWM and Lessons learnt
- TN Open NBS Lab setup
- Joint Position Paper
- MoU signed to create ARIANNANetwork
Contribution to wider strategies and policies:
- EUStrategyAdriaticIonianRegion Considering that the ARIANNA Project ambition is to improve the climate resilience of territories and communities involved, it clearly contributes to the EUSAIR Strategy; in view of the actions the project implies, addressing environmental issues, ARIANNA is in line with EUSAIR Pillar 3, “Environmental quality”, aiming at ensuring good environmental and ecological status of the marine and coastal environment in line with the relevant EU acquis and the ecosystem approach of the Barcelona Convention, and also with the goal of the EU biodiversity strategy of halting the loss of biodiversity and the degradation of ecosystem services in the EU. Within this pillar, ARIANNA falls within both Topic 1. Marine environment, and 2. Transnational terrestrial habitats and biodiversity. Definitely, both ARIANNA Project and Pillar 3 (as outlined in EUSAIR Action Plan SWD(2020) 57 final) contribute to bolstering the resilience of the macro-region's economies and societies in the face of existing and/or potential impacts of climate change, and also share the cross-cutting issues “Capacity building and communication” and “Research and Innovation”.
- Considering that the achievement of a better climate resilience in the area has positive impacts on issues related to the blue growth, it also contributes to specific objectives of Pillar 1 aiming at driving innovative maritime and marine growth in the Region by promoting sustainable economic growth and jobs as well as business opportunities in the blue economy sectors. In view of the negative consequences that climate disasters determine on transport networks, ARIANNA Project results also contribute to the improvement of connectivity in the Region, as foreseen within the objectives of EUSAIR Pillar 2 Connecting the Region. Referring to Pillar 4 Sustainable Tourism it is clear that improving climate resilience can positively impact on the achievement of this Pillar’s goals, especially in terms of the quality of tourism offered
- EuropeanGreenDeal ARIANNA Project fits into the European Green Deal Strategy, contributing to its purpose to “protect, conserve and enhance the EU's natural capital, and protect the health and well-being of citizens from environment-related risks and impacts”, as outlined in the Strategy introduction. Considering ARIANNA focus on NBS, it is in line with European Commission ambition, set in the Green Deal Communication, to improve sustainable solutions and disruptive innovation, critical to achieve the objectives of this strategy on the assumption that “conventional solutions are not sufficient”. The Toolkit and the joint developed TN Strategy focused on NBS and climate resilience, which will be implemented within ARIANNA Project, are perfectly consistent with this specific aspect of the European Green Deal aiming at making the EU climate resilient by 2050.
- Moreover, ARIANNA Project output represented by the Open Living Labs focused on climate awareness improvement and NBS, moreover, contribute to the objective of engagement of communities on the changes needed for a successful green transition, outlined in the Green Deal Strategy too. It is also in line with the intention, outlined within the zero pollution ambition for a toxic-free environment, to restore the natural functions of ground and surface water, essential to preserve and restore biodiversity in lakes, rivers, wetlands and estuaries, and to prevent and limit damage from floods.
- Other Forcing a climate resilient Europe-The new EU Strategy on adaptation to climate change, COM(2021) 82 final
- The objectives of ARIANNA Project are fully in line with the EU adaptation Strategy, which outlines the path for the European Union to adapt to the unavoidable impacts of climate change and become climate resilient by 2050. The Strategy has four principal objectives: to make adaptation smarter, swifter and more systemic, and to step up international action on adaptation to climate change. ARIANNA Project can particularly contribute to the strategy objective of adaptation actions informed by robust data and risk assessment tools that are available to all – from families building homes, businesses in coastal regions and farmers planning their crops.
- With reference to the objective of a more systemic adaptation, moreover, ARIANNA project is not only in line with European Commission ambitions, but it is just grounded in one of the identified cross-cutting priorities: the nature based solutions for adaptation. The project proposal can contribute to the implementation of NBS on a larger scale, increasing climate resilience and contributing to multiple Green Deal objectives. As clarified by this Strategy ARIANNA partnership believes that “blue-green infrastructures are multipurpose, “no regret” solutions and simultaneously provide environmental, social and economic benefits and help build climate resilience” (...) and aims at contributing to better “quantify their benefits, and to better communicate them to decision-makers and practitioners at all levels to improve take-up”.
- Other Enhancing the accession process-A credible EU perspective for the Western Balkans COM (2020) 57final
- ARIANNA Project, thanks to the strong cooperation among project partner countries which will characterize every step of the project, nevertheless its follow-up expressed by the CB network focused on NBS, definitely supports the accession process and the perspective of the Western Balkans expressed by EU and its Member States since the Feira and Thessaloniki Summits in 2000 and 2003. It particularly fits into the cluster of negotiating chapters “Green agenda and sustainable connectivity”, namely n. 27 Environment and climate change, contributing to fostering political dialogue in these fields in view of the accession process to the EU.
- Other European Climate Law
- The Project proposal is in line with and contributes to the Regulation (EU) 2021/1119 of 30 June 2021 establishing the framework for achieving climate neutrality, with particular reference to the statement enshrined in art. 5, dedicated to the adaptation to climate change, according to which Member States shall ensure continuous progress in enhancing adaptive capacity, strengthening resilience and reducing vulnerability to climate change in accordance with Article 7 of the Paris Agreement (...) They shall focus, in particular, on the most vulnerable and impacted populations and sectors, and identify shortcomings in this regard in consultation with civil society.
- Other Biodiversity Strategy for 2030 Bringing nature back into our lives COM(2020) 380 final
- ARIANNA Project contributes to this Strategy, adopted in the heart of the COVID-19 pandemic: they both move from the assumption that ecosystems mitigate natural disasters, pests and diseases and help regulate the climate, and therefore put in place actions aiming at preserving it. It contributes to the development and implementation of NBS, as advocated and proposed in Biodiversity Strategy, which stresses how the biodiversity crisis and the climate crisis are intrinsically linked, because climate change accelerates the destruction of the natural world through events such as flooding. The project proposal is in line with the assumption that, in view of this crisis, nature is a vital ally in the fight against climate change, and therefore NBS, which are the core of the project itself, will be essential for emission reduction and climate adaptation.
- It is particularly consistent with the strategy’s ambition of creating green European cities, increasing biodiversity in urban spaces and drafting a nature restoration plan, also thanks to the EU Urban Greening Platform, under a new ‘Green City Accord’ with cities and mayors, in close coordination with the European Covenant of Mayors.
- Other New EU Forest Strategy for 2030 COM(2021) 572 final
- This Strategy, rooted in the European Green Deal and in the EU Biodiversity Strategy includes the “3 Billion Trees Pledge”, commitment enriched by a roadmap, aiming at increasing the area of forest and tree coverage in the EU, as well as the the resilience of forests and their role in reversing biodiversity loss, and mitigating and helping communities adapt to climate change.
- ARIANNA Project, in particular its focus on the NBS represented by tree planting, will fully contribute to this Strategy, on the base of the same guiding principle: plant and grow the right tree in the right place, for the right purpose, so that to ensure that planting is carried out in a way that produces a tangible and positive impact on the climate, the environment, the economy and the quality of life of EU citizens.
- Other A/RES/70/1 - Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
- ARIANNA aiming at enhancing climate resilience, indirectly impacts on all the goals of Agenda, in particular Goal 13, dedicated to the urgent actions to combat climate change and its impacts, and related targets such as:
- 13.1 Strengthen resilience and adaptive capacity to climate-related hazards and natural disasters in all countries;
- 13.2 Integrate climate change measures into national policies, strategies and planning;
- 13.3 Improve education, awareness-raising and human and institutional capacity on climate change mitigation, adaptation, impact reduction and early warning.
- The consistency of the project proposal is also clear with reference to GOAL 11 “Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable”, especially for the following targets:
- 11.4 Strengthen efforts to protect and safeguard the world’s cultural and natural heritage;
- 11.5 By 2030, significantly reduce the number of deaths and the number of people affected and substantially decrease the direct economic losses relative to global gross domestic product caused by disasters, including water-related disasters, with a focus on protecting the poor and people in vulnerable situations;
- 11.b By 2020, substantially increase the number of cities and human settlements adopting and implementing integrated policies and plans towards inclusion, resource efficiency, mitigation and adaptation to climate change, resilience to disasters, and develop and implement, in line with the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030, holistic disaster risk management at all levels.
- Referring to Goal 12 ARIANNA Project, considering the foreseen activities of dissemination and awareness campaigns about the Toolkit and NBS, specifically contribute to target 12.8: by 2030, ensuring that people everywhere have the relevant information and awareness for sustainable development and lifestyles in harmony with nature.
Programme Common Output Indicator:
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RCO 084 - Pilot actions developed jointly and implemented in projects, Measurement unit:
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RCO 116 - Jointly developed solutions, Measurement unit:
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RCO 083 - Strategies and action plans jointly developed, Measurement unit:
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RCO 087 - Organisations cooperating across borders, Measurement unit:
Programme Common Result Indicator:
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RCR 084 - Organisations cooperating across borders after project completion, Measurement unit:
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RCR 104 - Solutions taken up or up-scaled by organisations, Measurement unit:
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RCR 079 - Joint strategies and action plans taken up by organisations, Measurement unit:
Project part of European Union Macro-Regional or Sea Basin Strategy: EUSAIR
EUSAIR Priority (Policy) area / Horizontal action:
EUSAIR Degree of compliance:
Information regarding the data in keep.eu on the programme financing this project
Financing programme
2021 - 2027 Interreg VI-B IPA Adriatic-Ionian
Last month that data in keep.eu was retrieved from the Programme's website or received from the Programme
2025-06-23
No. of projects in keep.eu / Total no. of projects (% of projects in keep.eu)
70 / 70 (100%)
No. of project partnerships in keep.eu / Total no. of project partnerships (% of project partnerships in keep.eu)
638 / 638 (100%)
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