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+title: Launch of Climate-Adapt4EOSC
+date: 2025-01-31
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+# Launch of Climate-Adapt4EOSC
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+_4 year EU-funded project TO drive Open Science and Data Innovation for Greater Climate Resilience_
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+The newly launched [Climate-Adapt4EOSC project](https://climate-adapt4eosc.eu/) joins the expanding European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) ecosystem, with a particular focus on climate change adaptation. Bringing together 18 partners from 9 countries, the initiative aims to advance open science and data-driven innovation to strengthen climate resilience and climate adaptation effots. 
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+Over the next four years, Climate-Adapt4EOSC will develop fully interoperable digital services, FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable) data resources, and advanced analytical tools, equipping researchers, policymakers, and stakeholders with cutting-edge solutions for data retrieval, processing, and analysis to drive more effective climate adaptation efforts.
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+## Context
+
+Adaptation to climate change has become a central focus for researchers across various fields, including climate science, environmental science, urban planning, information science and social science, to support policymakers in making informed decisions to build a climate-prepared and resilient society. The major challenges in achieving this goal are: 
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+1. Lack of seamless interaction between platforms, data spaces, and users  
+2. Poor data interoperability as well as service interoperability  
+3. Lack of infrastructural support for generating FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) data  
+4. Legal barriers hindering access to data
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+**Climate-Adapt4EOSC** aims to address these challenges by creating an **EOSC-centred collaborative research environment** that integrates existing EOSC data and services while expanding them with new capabilities. These enhancements include **interoperability, FAIRification, Open Data publication of research results, data adaptation, format compliance, mapping, and entity matching**, enabling seamless data interaction and the development of advanced services such as **Big Data analytics for climate risk assessments**.
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+A key innovation of the project is the development of a **climate change adaptation ontology** and an **EOSC Climate-Adapt Knowledge Graph**, designed to enhance **findability, accessibility, tracking, and life cycle management** of diverse research outputs, including **datasets, scientific publications, methodologies, code, software packages, and analytical tools**.
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+Additionally, Climate-Adapt4EOSC is introducing **three innovative services** that will support the **EU Mission on Climate Change Adaptation** and the **European Green Deal**. These services are designed to be **demonstrated across five EU countries**, ensuring practical implementation and impact in real-world climate adaptation efforts.
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+## Project information
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+- **Duration:** 48 Months, January 2025 -- December 2028  
+- **EU Funding:** €7.9M (HORIZON-INFRA-2024-EOSC-01 101188248)  
+- **Coordinator:** Demokritos -- National Centre for Scientific Research  
+- **Website:** <https://www.climate-adapt4eosc.eu> 
+- **LinkedIn:** <https://www.linkedin.com/company/eosc-climate-adapt-4/>
+- **Contact**: <mailto:contact@climate-adpapt4eosc.eu>
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+
+### Consortium Members
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+- National Centre for Scientific Research “Demokritos” (GR)
+- G.A.C. Group (FR)
+- Artelia (FR)
+- Laboratorio Nacional de Engenharia Civil (PT) 
+- Associacao INCD (PT)
+- Technovative Solutions (UK)
+- University of Cambridge (UK)
+- The University of Manchester (UK)
+- CODATA (FR)
+- Ethniko Asteroskopeio Athinon (GR)
+- Dimos Egaleo (GR)
+- Administracao do Porto de Aveiro SA (PT)
+- Centre Scientifique et Technique du Bâtiment (FR)
+- Data4 (PL)
+- Novitopia Bilgi Teknolojileri (TR)
+- Bureau des Recherches Géologiques et Miniers (FR)
+- SIKT (NO)
+- IANUS Technologies 5CY)
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