PCP WISE Webstival Fosters Cross-Project Collaboration for Climate Resilience Solutions
The third webinar of the PCP WISE Webstival, held on April 17, 2025, successfully brought together six leading EU-funded initiatives to explore collaboration opportunities in water resilience, climate adaptation, and digital innovation. The session featured Lightning Talks from each project, highlighting their core missions and potential synergies with PCP WISE.
Project Highlights and Collaboration Opportunities
MIRACA led by the Vrije Universiteit of Amsterdam showcased their systemic, data-driven platform for critical infrastructure resilience assessment. Key lessons presented include the importance of moving beyond asset-level impacts to system-level approaches, integrating climate resilience with other transformations like decarbonization, and acknowledging that implementation hurdles are often organizational or governance-related rather than technical.
TransformAr leed by the Norwegian University of Science and Technology demonstrated regional innovation packages with tools like the Resilience Index and Smart Climate Stations. Their lessons learned highlighted successful stakeholder engagement and co-creation of tools, while acknowledging barriers in data fragmentation and scalability. They expressed interest in collaborations with climate tech startups, public agencies, and municipalities, suggesting that PCP WISE could help scale tested TransformAr tools through procurement pathways and facilitate cross-regional replication.
SPACE4CITIES led by Forum Virium Helsinki shared their Earth Observation-driven Pre-Commercial Procurement approach for urban space planning and city maintenance. Their presentation concluded by highlighting their effective small team approach during the Open Market Consultation phase and extensive dissemination activities that attracted numerous tenders. They’re actively seeking collaboration with other satellite data projects and are looking for cooperation related to commercialization strategies after their piloting phase.
ARSINOE led by the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki presented their multi-sector modeling and stakeholder engagement framework across nine diverse case studies. Their legacy includes a Climate Change & Sustainability e-CoP platform, policy briefs, a Climate Innovation Window, an ARSINOE Digital toolkit with dashboard and knowledge graph capabilities, and citizen science platforms like MINKA that will continue beyond the project’s lifespan.
RESIST led by INOVA+ showcased their approach to empowering 12 climate-vulnerable regions through various project dimensions, including graphical digital twins, a repository of climate adaptation solutions, collaboration platforms, and networking frameworks to maximize impact through transformative social innovation.
Climateurope2 led by the Barcelona Supercomputing Center highlighted their work on standardization procedures for climate services, focusing on developing comprehensive, consensus-based quality criteria through active community engagement. They aim to address gaps in climate service standards by fostering robust standardization frameworks that build two-way trust between providers and users.
Collaborative Pathways Forward
During the matchmaking discussion, participants identified concrete opportunities for collaboration—ranging from joint pilots to shared modeling platforms and open-source tools. Potential areas for synergy included technical implementation, climate modeling, data integration, and replication of solutions through Pre-Commercial Procurement processes.
The session underscored PCP WISE’s pivotal role in connecting innovation ecosystems across Europe to address pressing climate and water challenges. By facilitating knowledge exchange between these complementary initiatives, the Webstival continues to strengthen Europe’s collective approach to building climate resilience through digital innovation and cross-sector collaboration.
▶️ Watch the recording of the webinar here and access the webinar presentation here
