Towards Climate Resilient Mediterranean Cities

Programme 2021 - 2027 Interreg VI-B EURO Mediterranean (EURO MED)

Date of latest update: 2025-05-27

Description

Description (EN):

Urban areas are known to be among the main contributors to climate change worldwide. At the same time, they are especially at risk from the impacts of climate change. There is a growing recognition that climate change is here for the long term, and that actions is needed, not just mitigation, but also to adapt to the impacts that we can expect to see now and in the future. Consequently, innovative responses for raising the resilience and adaptation of Mediterranean cities are needed. Capitalising and combining the results of previous and ongoing projects (CESBA MED Sustainable MED Cities, Sustainable MED Cities, ARTACLIM and Habit.A), ReMED will develop an innovative set of affordable tools, along with an overarching decision support framework, to help cities in: - assessing and understanding the level of climate risk at urban and building scale - designing optimal climate adaptation measures in relation to local conditions - implementing climate adaptation measures through the most suitable policy instruments - monitoring and evaluating the results of adaptation measures over time. ReMED will support a Multi-Level Governance (MLG) in climate adaptation, as recommended by the UN COP 26. ReMED methods, tools and decision support framework will be organised in a friendly web-based tool, the ReMED Platform. ReMED will deliver capacity building measures towards public authorities in the use of the ReMED Platform to facilitate its practical use and uptake. The focus of the capacity building process will be the test of the ReMED Platform to support the implementation of adaptation measures through policy instruments. The main output of the project will be an overall raised capacity of public authorities in deploying effective measures to improve the resilience of cities.

Description (FR):

Les zones urbaines sont connues pour être parmi les principaux contributeurs au changement climatique dans le monde. Dans le même temps, ils sont particulièrement menacés par les impacts du changement climatique. Il est de plus en plus reconnu que le changement climatique est là pour le long terme et que des actions sont nécessaires, non seulement pour l'atténuation, mais aussi pour s'adapter aux impacts que nous pouvons nous attendre à voir maintenant et à l'avenir. Par conséquent, des réponses innovantes pour accroître la résilience et l'adaptation des villes méditerranéennes sont nécessaires. Capitalisant les résultats des projets précédents (CESBA MED, ARTACLIM et Habit.A), ReMED développera des outils abordables, ainsi qu'un cadre global d'aide à la décision, pour aider les villes à : - évaluer et comprendre le niveau de risque climatique à différentes échelles spatiales - concevoir des mesures optimales d'adaptation au climat en fonction des contextes locaux - mettre en œuvre les mesures d'adaptation au climat par le biais d'instruments politiques à fort impact - suivre et évaluer les résultats des mesures d'adaptation dans le temps. ReMED soutiendra une gouvernance multi-niveaux (MLG) dans l'adaptation au climat, comme recommandé par la COP 26. Les méthodes, les outils et le cadre d'aide à la décision ReMED seront organisés dans une application Web conviviale, la plateforme ReMED. ReMED fournira des mesures de renforcement des capacités aux autorités publiques dans l'utilisation de la plateforme ReMED afin de faciliter son utilisation pratique et son adoption. Le processus de renforcement des capacités se concentrera sur le test de la plateforme ReMED pour soutenir la mise en œuvre de mesures d'adaptation à travers un ensemble d'instruments politiques de référence. Le principal résultat du projet sera une capacité globale accrue des autorités publiques à déployer des mesures efficaces pour améliorer la résilience des villes.

Actual Achievements (EN):

The first period of the ReMED project was an eventful period. The project started off with the kick-off meeting held in Malta and organized by the Lead Partners, University of Malta. This was also the consortium first Steering Committee meeting. During the meeting it was communicated to all the partners that one of the Greek partners decided not to proceed with the project and thus a new Greek Partner had to be found. It was a long process to find and change the partner and get all the paperwork done so that the contract agreement and subsidiary agreement could be concluded and signed. During this period Green Living also launched their kick-off meeting in Torino in which representatives of all the projected met to discuss the Green living theme and how we can collaborate between projects. In this period the first unofficial deliverable was tackled, which is ‘Mapping existing methodologies and indicators for climate change urban risk assessment’. This output was led by the National Observatory of Athens (NOA) in which all partners contributed to this document. This document was submitted on Basecamp by NOA. We also worked on the setting up the Local Project Committee in which ReMED project was introduced. A document, outlining the meeting was also submitted on Basecamp. This output was led by iiSBE Italia. In the Communication department, a lot of work was also done. The Communication Strategy was drawn up by University of Malta, reviewed by all partners and then submitted on Basecamp. Other communication items which were set up during this first period were the project website, social media pages on Facebook and LinkedIn, project poster and project document templates for our outputs and presentations. The Project Carbon Footprint monitoring was also addressed based on the methodology and tool provided by the Interreg Euro Med Programme I which all Project Partners calculated the carbon footprint generated by the project to date. This is led by NOA.

Project outputs: ReMED Platform for climate risk assessment of Mediterranean buildings and neighbourhoods and the development of optimal adapation mesures(EN)
N/A(FR)
ReMED cooperation(EN)
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Pilot actions for the preparation of local resilience actions plans at neighbourhood scale(EN)
N/A(FR)
Integration of REMED Platform in policy instruments
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N/A(FR)
Website: https://interreg-euro-med.eu/en/

Thematic information

Institutional cooperation and cooperation networks Governance, partnership Climate change and biodiversity

Priority: (VI-B_EM_2) Greener MED

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: L-Università ta' Malta

PIC (Participant Identification Code): 999887059

Partner’s ID if not PIC: MT12894031 | MT120000005 | - (FR), - (EN)

Department: Faculty for the Built Environment

Address: Msida MSD, 2080 Malta, Malta

Department address: Msida MSD, 2080 Malta, Malta

Legal status: public

Organisation type: Higher education and research organisations

Website: http://www.um.edu.mt

Total budget: EUR 357 073.70

Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 285 658.96

Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 80.00%

Partner contribution: EUR 71 414.74

Δημος Φυλης - Dímos Fylís

Name: Δημος Φυλης - Dímos Fylís

PIC (Participant Identification Code): 915725106

Partner’s ID if not PIC: 997675481 | EL120000046 | - (FR), - (EN)

Address: Heroon Square, GR 13341 ÀNO LIÓSSIA, Greece

Legal status: public

Organisation type: Local public authority

Website: https://fyli.gr

Total budget: EUR 225 920.00

Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 180 736.00

Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 80.00%

Partner contribution: EUR 45 184.00

Ayuntamiento de Málaga

Name: Ayuntamiento de Málaga

Department: European Programmes Department

PIC (Participant Identification Code): 983310438

Partner’s ID if not PIC: P2906700F | ES1P0000035 | - (FR), - (EN)

Address: Camino de la Desviación, 29017 Málaga, Spain

Department address: Camino de la Desviación, 29017 Málaga, Spain

Legal status: public

Organisation type: Local public authority

Website: http://www.malaga.eu

Total budget: EUR 272 200.00

Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 217 760.00

Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 80.00%

Partner contribution: EUR 54 440.00

Fundación CIEDES

Name: Fundación CIEDES

PIC (Participant Identification Code): 953647838

Partner’s ID if not PIC: G29682614 | ES2G0000071 | - (FR), - (EN)

Address: Dos Aceras, 29012 Málaga, Spain

Legal status: private

Organisation type: Higher education and research organisations

Website: https://ciedes.es/

Total budget: EUR 322 440.00

Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 257 952.00

Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 80.00%

Partner contribution: EUR 64 488.00

Grad Crikvenica

Name: Grad Crikvenica

PIC (Participant Identification Code): 940852762

Partner’s ID if not PIC: HR81687755716 | HR120000026 | - (FR), - (EN)

Address: Ulica kralja Tomislava, 51260 Crikvenica, Croatia

Legal status: public

Organisation type: Local public authority

Total budget: EUR 204 129.80

Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 163 303.84

Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 80.00%

Partner contribution: EUR 40 825.96

Ειδικος Λογαριασμος Κονδυλιων Eρευνας Εθνικοy Αστεροσκοπειοy Αθηνων

Name: Ειδικος Λογαριασμος Κονδυλιων Eρευνας Εθνικοy Αστεροσκοπειοy Αθηνων

Department: Institute for Environmental Research & Sustainable Development (IERSD)

PIC (Participant Identification Code): 999653677

Partner’s ID if not PIC: 997028265 | EL120000044 | - (FR), - (EN)

Address: LOFOS NYMFON, 11851 ATHENS, Greece

Department address: I. Metaxa & Vas. Pavlou, 15236 Palea Penteli, Greece

Legal status: public

Organisation type: Higher education and research organisations

Website: http://www.noa.gr

Total budget: EUR 260 524.00

Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 208 419.20

Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 80.00%

Partner contribution: EUR 52 104.80

Comune di Genova

Name: Comune di Genova

PIC (Participant Identification Code): 998295095

Partner’s ID if not PIC: 00856930102 | IT120000063 | - (FR), - (EN)

Address: Via di Francia, 16149 Genova, Italy

Legal status: public

Organisation type: Local public authority

Website: https://smart.comune.genova.it/

Total budget: EUR 268 000.00

Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 214 400.00

Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 80.00%

Partner contribution: EUR 53 600.00

international initiative for a Sustainable Built Environment Italia R&D - iiSBE Italia R&D

Name: international initiative for a Sustainable Built Environment Italia R&D - iiSBE Italia R&D

PIC (Participant Identification Code): 950526184

Partner’s ID if not PIC: IT10932470015 | IT220000024 | - (FR), - (EN)

Address: Via Paolo Borsellino, 10138 Torino, Italy

Legal status: public

Organisation type: Interest groups including NGOs

Website: http://iisbe-rd.it/

Total budget: EUR 354 450.00

Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 283 560.00

Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 80.00%

Partner contribution: EUR 70 890.00

Ministeru għal Għawdex u l-Ippjanar

Name: Ministeru għal Għawdex u l-Ippjanar

Department: EcoGozo Directorate

PIC (Participant Identification Code): 901274725

Partner’s ID if not PIC: MT21863024 | MT120000006 | - (FR), - (EN)

Address: St. Francis Square , VCT1335 Victoria, Gozo, Malta

Department address: St. Francis Square , 1335 Victoria, Gozo, Malta

Legal status: public

Organisation type: National public authority

Website (not verified): https://mgoz.gov.mt

Total budget: EUR 141 549.60

Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 113 239.68

Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 80.00%

Partner contribution: EUR 28 309.92

Contractors:

Name: Nouv Audit Ltd
VAT registration or tax identification number: MT21973722

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CIEDES Foundation

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Municipality of Crikvenica

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Management Unit of Special Account for Research National Observatory of Athens

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Municipality of Genoa - Energy Policy Sector Department

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international initiative for a Sustainable Built Environment Italia R&D - iiSBE Italia R&D

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Ministry for Gozo and Planning

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University of Malta - Institute for Climate Change and Sustainable Development

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Summary

Project name (EN): Towards Climate Resilient Mediterranean Cities

Project name (FR): Vers des villes méditerranéennes résilientes au changement climatique

Project acronym: ReMED

Project ID: Euro-MED0200907

Project start date: 2024-01-01

Project end date: 2026-09-30

Project status: ongoing

Relevant linked projects:

N/A (FR), Interreg MED Programme, 2014-2020, CESBA MED: Sustainable MED Cities
(EN) | N/A (FR), ReMED will capitalise 2 results of the CESBA MED Interreg MED project: the CESBA MED Assessment System and the CESBA MED Decision Making Method. The CESBA MED Assessment System is composed by 2 multi-criteria tools, SBTool (Sustainable Buildings Tool) and SNTool (Sustainable Neighbourhoods Tools), useful to measure the level of sustainability at building and urban scale. The ReMED Assessment System will be built on the CESBA MED Assessment System, adapting SBTool and SNTool to be usable for climate risk assessment. The CESBA MED Assessment System capitalised in ReMED will be the version updated in the ENI CBC MED Sustainable MED Cities project (see description in C2.6). The CESBA MED Assessment System has been conceived to carry out evaluations concerning the level of sustainability of buildings and neighbourhoods. It is not usable to carry out climate risk assessments because it isn't not in line with the risk concept expressed in the IPCC AR5 and AR5, In this concept, the risk is a result of the interaction of vulnerability, exposure, and hazard, elements that aren’t included in the sustainability assessment methodologies. ReMED will mainstream the risk concept in SBTool and SNTool and will transform them in the RBTool (Resilient Buildings Tools) and RNTool (Resilient Neighbourhoods Tool), using the methodology of the impact chains as elaborated in the Interreg Alcotra Habit.A project (see description in C2.6). The ReMED Decision Support Framework will be built on the CESBA MED Decision Making Methodology, as updated by the ENI CBC MED project Sustainable MED Cities (see description in C2.6). The CESBA MED Decision Making methodology was conceived to guide the user in the development of the optimal concept to improve the sustainability of a builing or of a neighbourhood. In ReMED the decision-making methodology will be adapted to identify the optimal solutions to improve the resilience of building and neighbourhoods taking in account the IPCC risk concept. (EN), ENI CBC Med, 2014-2020, Sustainable MED Cities (EN), N/A (FR) | N/A (FR), The ENI CBC MED project Sustainable MED Cities is a capitalisation project of the CESBA MED Interreg MED project. The main objective of Sustainable MED Cities is to expand the applicability of the CESBA MED Assessment System and Decision Making methodology to the whole Mediterranean region. The result as been the Sustainable MED Cities Assessment System and the Sustainable MED Cities Decision Making methodology. The assessment tools CESBA SBTool and CESBA SNTool have been updated in relation to the most recent technical standards and relevant frameworks of indicators, including the Level(s) framework of the European Commission. The version of SBTool and SNTool used in ReMED to develop the ReMED Assessment System are the ones updated in the Sustainable MED Cities project. In Sustainable MED Cities project the CESBA MED decision making methodology has been further improved and detailed. Consequently, the version of the decision making methodology used to build the ReMED Decision Support Framework will be the one produced in the Sustainable MED Cities project. ReMED partners iiSBE Italia (PP3) and NOA (PP5) are in the partnership of the ENI CBC MED project Sustainable MED Cities and were partners in CESBA MED. (EN), Interreg ALCOTRA, 2014-2020, Habit.A (EN), N/A (FR) | The project Habit.A was funded by the Interreg Alcotra programme and it was focused on the topic of raising the resilience of the Alpine built environment. In this project, it has been defined a methodology to adapt sustainability assessment systems to be usable in risk assessment processes at building, neighbourhood and settlement scale. The methodology consist in the use of impact chains linking climatic hazards, level of exposure and level of vulnerability of buildings or neighbourhoods to produce a score representing the level of adaptation. The main scientific reference is the "Risk Supplement to the Vulnerability Sourcebook" published by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development. The methodology will be adapted to the Mediterranean context and used to transform the Sustainable MED Cities/CESBA MED Assessment System in the ReMED Assessment System. PP3 iiSBE was partner in Habit.A. (EN), N/A (FR), N/A (FR), Interreg ALCOTRA, 2014-2020, ARTACLIM (EN) | In the framework of the project ARTACLIM it has been developed a web-tool to implement a multi-criteria assessment system useful to carry out vulnerability studies at territorial level. In ReMED, the ARTACLIM web-tool will be used as starting point to build the upgraded ReMED Platform. The ARTACLIM web-tool will be adapted to fit with the ReMED Assessment Method and the ReMED Assessment System will be uploaded. Users will be able to use the web-tool to carry out evaluations on neighbourhoods and bindings. New functionalities will be added, as the management of decision-making process implementing the model of roadmap of the ReMED Decision Support Framework. The new platform will be used by PPs to create the local version of the assessment tools and to carry out the test process. (EN), N/A (FR)

Total budget/expenditure: EUR 2 406 287.10

Total EU funding (amount): EUR 1 925 029.68

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

Co-financing sources:

Investments, deliverables, policy contributions

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Deliverables:

ReMED Assessment Methodology
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Updated version of the ReMED Assessment System
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Updated version of the ReMED Decision Support Framework
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Update version of the ReMED Platform
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Euro- MED Academy ReMED Video
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The ReMED Training Material and e-learning Platform (final version)
Tests' results
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ReMED Platform and Climate Action Plans
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ReMED Platform and Spatial Planning
ReMED Platform for the certification of the resilient built environment
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ReMED Platform and Multi Level Governance
N/A
ReMED Platform in Strategic Environmental Assessment
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ReMED Climate Transition Lab
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Contribution to wider strategies and policies:

EuropeanGreenDeal The European Union’s (EU) Green Deal is the EU’s main new growth strategy to transition the EU economy to a sustainable economic model. The overarching objective is for the EU to become the first climate neutral continent by 2050, resulting in a cleaner environment, more affordable energy, smarter transport, new jobs and an overall better quality of life. The ReMED project will increase the impact of policy instruments that are contributing to reach the EU Green Deal objectives.
TerritorialAgenda2030 The Territorial Agenda 2030 is a strategic framework document that underlines the importance of and provides orientation for strategic spatial planning and calls for strengthening the territorial dimension of sector policies at all governance levels. Spatial planning is one of the key policy instruments addressed by the ReMED project. The objective is to mainstream the climate adaptation and resilience principles also in strategic spatial planning.
EUStrategyAdriaticIonianRegion In EUSAIR, climate change adaptation is defined as a horizontal principle, relevant to all thematic pillars of the strategy. Due to its transnational nature and easiness of adaptation to any Mediterranean context, the ReMED Platform will have the opportunity to be further capitalised in EUSAIR.
EUStrategyAlpineRegion In EUSALP, climate change adaptation is bundled together with disaster risk management in one of nine actions, the AG8.
Due to its transnational nature (the ReMED Platform can potentially be adapted to any European region), the AG8 will have the opportunity to capitalise the project’s outcomes.

Programme Common Output Indicator:

RCO 001 - Enterprises supported (of which: micro, small, medium, large), 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:

Programme Common Result Indicator:

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:

Programme Result Indicator:

RCR90N Long-term cross-border innovation networks, Measurement unit: Number of networks
PSI1 - Organisations with increased institutional capacity due to their participation in cooperation activities across borders, Measurement unit: organisations

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: EUSAIR

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2021 - 2027 Interreg VI-B EURO Mediterranean (EURO MED)

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2025-05-27

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64 / 64 (100%)

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608 / 608 (100%)

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Towards Climate Resilient Mediterranean Cities

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