Euradapt

Dublin City Council has reaffirmed its dedication to climate action by joining the EURADAPT project "Improving regional policies at European level to increase ADAPTATION to climate change", officially launched on 25 June 2025 in Chiavenna (Italy),  A European-wide initiative aimed at improving regional policies for climate change adaption. This partnership underscores Dublin City Council’s commitment to addressing the global climate emergency and building a more resilient future for Dublin.

Co-financed by the European Union via the Interreg Europe programme, This project aims to improve local and regional climate change policies for adaptation through enhanced cooperation between European countries.

EURADAPT brings together eight partners from eight European countries around a common goal: to strengthen the capacities of regions in the face of the impacts of climate change through the exchange of experiences, the pooling of good practices and peer-to-peer learning.

Duration: 36 months

Project Start: June 2025

Project end: April 2029

Objectives: The interregional learning process is based on the exchange of experiences between partners following specific themes:

  • Land use and food systems, including climate-resilient food systems, the development and testing of new business models, the role of emerging technologies, digitalisation and upskilling across value chains
  • Sustainable water management, including strategies to ensure the availability of fresh water and reduce vulnerability to drought and flood risks;
  • Critical infrastructure, including the adoption of resilient structural solutions and the integration of climate resilience into infrastructure planning and design;
  • Governance and participation, including mechanisms to engage citizens and a wide range of stakeholders in the co-creation and sharing of climate-resilient data, knowledge and solutions.

The EURADAPT project brings together the following partners:

  • Mountain Community of Valchiavenna (Italy)
  • Blekinge County Board (Sweden)
  • Centre-Val de Loire Regional Council (France)
  • Poltava Regional Council (Ukraine)
  • Dublin City Council (Ireland)
  • South Moravian Agency for Public Innovation (Czech Republic)
  • Regional Government of Valencia – Directorate-General for Quality and Environmental Education (Spain)
  • Autonomous Government of Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén (Hungary)

These partners reflect a diversity of territorial profiles – urban, rural, coastal or continental – facing varied but complementary climate vulnerabilities.

The project aims to improve the quality and effectiveness of regional policies and strategies aimed at adapting to climate change. The project seeks to strengthen the capacity of regional and local governments to effectively plan and implement adaptation measures based on data and local needs, to better coordinate activities with national policies and to involve relevant actors in the process. The result should be a higher resilience of regions to the effects of climate change.

International cooperation and exchanges of experience between European regions will improve the design and implementation of regional adaptation policies through interregional learning and the sharing of best practices in areas such as land use, water management, protection of critical infrastructure and public involvement. More experienced regions help less developed partners find tailor-made solutions to their conditions to jointly increase resilience and preparedness for the impacts of climate change.

EURADAPT is fully in line with the European Green Deal and the European Union's climate change adaptation strategy. It aims to produce concrete results to improve local resilience, through two phases:

  • Phase 1 (2025-2028): interregional exchanges, diagnostics, experimentation of adaptation solutions;
  • Phase 2 (2028-2029): evaluation, consolidation of results and integration into public policies.

The activities of the EURADAPT project will facilitate the integration of climate change adaptation issues into the policies of the Region, its partners and local authorities

More about the EURADAPT Project