The document provides national policy recommendations based on the MiCREATE project's research on the integration of migrant children in Austria, Denmark, Spain, the United Kingdom, Poland, and Slovenia. It addresses various aspects, including child-centered policy recommendations, policy indicators, monitoring, and assessment.

This document, part of the EMpowerment through liquid Integration of Migrant Youth in vulnerable conditions (MIMY) project, presents policy recommendations based on the first-year findings. MIMY investigates the integration processes of non-EU young adult migrants, particularly those aged 18-29, in vulnerable conditions. The recommendations are rooted in a conceptual framework emphasizing 'liquid integration,' resilience, and vulnerability. The document urges policymakers to adopt a dynamic and multifaceted perspective, considering the continuous changes and adjustments in integration processes.

This study examines the role of social policies in European welfare states, focusing on their capacity to manage poverty and inequality during economic shocks. By considering both primary and supplementary social protection systems, the research finds that Nordic and Continental European states with robust support systems fare better, though some inconsistencies exist in labor market integration.

This document, part of the FUTURELIENCE project, focuses on Task 2.2, aiming to collect and discuss indicators for farm efficiency and resilience. The handbook, compiled through an iterative process, provides a list of qualitative and quantitative indicators covering soil, crop, livestock, environmental impacts, economics, social aspects, and more. The indicators aim to measure integration within farming systems. The document outlines the process, contributors, and considerations for indicator selection.

This policy paper analyzes how public sector organizations in 11 EU Member States responded and adapted to the COVID-19 crisis. It evaluates their resilience using the Common Assessment Framework (CAF) model, a tool for assessing organizational operations and performance.

The MultiMind project aims to develop the MuLiMi platform, a screening assessment tool for language and reading disorders in bilingual children. The platform, designed by a multidisciplinary team, is intended to identify potential language and reading disorders in preschool and school-age children. Its outcome is a user-friendly interface that incorporates multimedia elements to create an engaging experience for young examinees, while also providing administrators with the ability to create, modify, and configure tests. This innovative tool is expected to contribute to the early identification and intervention of language and reading disorders in multilingual children.

The MUV project aims at engaging local communities in the co-design of new mobility solutions for their neighborhoods. By analyzing data collected from app users' routes, the project identifies areas in need of intervention and invites citizens, local organizations, and decision-makers to propose solutions. The project's purpose is to foster a collaborative approach to urban mobility and to provide evidence-based recommendations to local administrators for the improvement of city mobility policies. The project attempts to provide a series of recommendations for new mobility solutions to be implemented in each neighborhood, as well as efforts to contribute to the debate on mobility policies, particularly in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.

State-of-the-art flood hazard maps in coastal cities are often obtained from simulating coastal or pluvial events separately. This method does not account for the seasonality of flood drivers and their mutual dependence. In this article, we include the impact of these two factors in a computationally efficient probabilistic framework for flood risk calculation, using Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) as a case study. HCMC can be flooded subannually by high tide, rainfall, and storm surge events or a combination thereof during the monsoon or tropical cyclones. Using long gauge observations, we stochastically model 10,000 years of rainfall and sea level events based on their monthly distributions, dependence structure and cooccurrence rate. The impact from each stochastic event is then obtained from a damage function built from selected rainfall and sea level combinations, leading to an expected annual damage (EAD) of $1.02 B (95th annual damage percentile of $2.15 B). We find no dependence for most months and large differences in expected damage across months ($36–166 M) driven by the seasonality of rainfall and sea levels. Excluding monthly variability leads to a serious underestimation of the EAD by 72–83%. This is because high-probability flood events, which can happen multiple times during the year and are properly captured by our framework, contribute the most to the EAD. This application illustrates the potential of our framework and advocates for the inclusion of flood drivers' dynamics in coastal risk assessments.

The increased complexity of disaster risk, due to climate change, expected population growth and the increasing interconnectedness of disaster impacts across communities and economic sectors, requires disaster risk reduction (DRR) measures that are better able to address these growing complexities. Especially disaster risk management (DRM) practitioners need to be able to oversee these complexities. Nonetheless, in the traditional risk paradigm, there is a strong focus on single hazards and the risk faced by individual communities and economic sectors. The development of the game and how it aims to support a shift from a single-risk to a multi-risk paradigm are discussed in detail. Breaking the Silos is a serious game designed to support various stakeholders (including policy makers, risk managers, researchers) in understanding and managing the complexities of DRR measures in a multi-risk (multi-hazard) setting, thereby moving away from hazard-silo thinking. What sets Breaking the Silos apart from other disaster risk games is its explicit focus on multi-risk challenges. The game includes different hazard types and intensities (and their interactions), different impact indicators, and (a) synergies between DRR measures. Moreover, the spread of expert knowledge between different participants and the high levels of freedom and randomness in the game design contribute to a realistic game. The game was launched during the World Bank GFDRR's Understanding Risk 2020 Forum and later played again with the same settings with researchers from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich. Feedback from the pre- and post-game surveys indicates that Breaking the Silos was found useful by the participants in increasing awareness of the complexities of risk.

The aim of this report was to (i) acknowledge the differences and promote consistency in understanding across subsequent work packages in the
MYRIAD-EU project, (ii) improve the accessibility of our work to a broad array of stakeholders, and (iii) strengthen consensus across the hazard and risk community through a common understanding of multi-hazard, multi-risk terminology and concepts. The work encompassed a mixed-methods approach, including internal consultations and data-generating exercises; literature reviews; external stakeholder engagement, adopting and building on a rich existing body of established glossaries.

Reducing the climate change-induced risk of uncontrollable fires in landscapes under nature management, with severe impacts on landscape and society, is particularly urgent in densely-populated and fragmented areas. Reducing fire risk in such areas requires active involvement of a wide diversity of stakeholders. This research letter investigates stakeholders' needs with regard to fire risk reduction in the Veluwe area in the Netherlands. This densely populated landscape is a popular tourist attraction, and it is one of the most fire-prone landscapes of the Netherlands, with abundant fuels and human ignition sources. We draw upon seven in-depth qualitative interviews with key stakeholders in the Veluwe area, which we situate in a wider review of existing literature. Our analysis demonstrates that the rising incidence of uncontrollable fires poses four types of new challenges to these stakeholders in the Veluwe area. First, stakeholders express the need to reshape existing policy tools and develop novel ones that create synergies between existing policy-priorities (e.g. biodiversity conservation) and fire risk reduction. Second, stakeholders argue for a critical rethinking of the value of landscapes in society, and the diverse roles that fire may play in landscape management research and practice. Third, developing such policy tools requires new modalities and platforms for multi-stakeholder and multi-level collaboration, which are currently lacking because the current and expected future risk of uncontrollable fire is unprecedented. And fourth, the development of effective policy tools requires new knowledge that is interdisciplinary, sensitive towards the local social and ecological characteristics of the area, and which approaches current fire risk challenges and their possible solutions dynamically. While our stakeholder analysis is specific to the Veluwe area in the Netherlands, our findings are also likely to be relevant to other fire-prone nature areas in fragmented landscapes, particularly in Northwestern Europe.

How can risks be better managed by considering the interrelated effects of multiple hazards? How can we better account for dynamic feedbacks between risk drivers, and for trade-offs and synergies across sectors, regions, and hazards? These questions are central to the MYRIAD-EU project, which
aims to support risk-informed management and decision-making in the EU. Part 1 of this report investigates and reviews the current multi-risk governance practice in Europe. We analyse existing international and European policies and communications with regard to their consideration of key elements of multi-hazards and multi-risk. We present the national risk
assessment process as an important avenue for risk governance practice in Europe; the assessment within this study concludes that the present embedding of a multi-risk perspective in the national risk assessments does not meet the ambition of the international and European policies. We present a selection of representative, promising and prominent approaches from scientific multi-risk research to illustrate recent advancements from the academic community. Part 2 aims to classify sectoral dependencies and provides guidelines for the sectoral representatives on how to identify and navigate multi-sector risk. Sectoral interdependencies are first classified through the lens of undisturbed conditions: functional, spatial, financial, and
societal. Combining this with analysis of hazard impact studies, four typologies of multi-sector risk are developed: spillover, co-dependent, interacting, intersecting and interacting independent. Finally, part 2 of this report presents a set of questions for stakeholders (Table 2-3); these questions aim to facilitate future stakeholder discussions in the MYRIAD-EU project and the identification of sectoral inter-dependencies to promote more effective Disaster Risk Management strategies

This report investigates and reviews the current multi-risk governance practice in Europe. The Part 1 analyzes existing international and European policies and communications with regards to their consideration of key elements of multi-hazards and multi-risk. In Part 2, it aims to classify sectoral dependencies and provides guidelines for the sectoral representatives on how to identify and navigate multi-sector risk. Sectoral interdependencies are first classified through the lens of undisturbed conditions: functional, spatial, financial, and societal. To bridge the thematic scope between Parts 1 and 2, it's evident that the realization of a more holistic approach to risk management necessitates an in-depth understanding of sectoral
interdependencies. Following insights from Part 1, it became apparent that current governance practices, while touching upon multi-risks, lack a nuanced awareness of how cross-sectoral dynamics play out in real-world scenarios.

This document serves as the second policy brief for the NADINE project's Task 10.2 on community building. It provides an overview of the research conducted over the past year and outlines policy recommendations resulting from policy roundtables. The NADINE project focuses on fostering collaboration between public and private entities to improve migrant integration and digital service access in the EU.

This document explores the findings and policy recommendations resulting from the NADINE project's year-long research on unemployment among Refugees, Asylum Seekers, and Vulnerable migrants (RAVs) in the EU. The study emphasizes the critical role of skills assessment in addressing the challenges faced by RAVs in integrating into the job market and proposes policy measures to bridge the gap between desired outcomes and actual results. The document also introduces the NADINE project's innovative approach, utilizing serious games and big-data technology for skills assessment, to contribute to reducing unemployment among RAVs.

This document contains the final policy brief for the NADINE project, task 10.2, deliverable 10.8. This includes an introduction to the research led by the NADINE team over the past year.

This paper proposes the creation of an international mechanism for creating collaborative partnerships between stakeholders such as scientists, NGOs, governments and foundations and the business community. The proposed mechanism Nature Resilience would initiate and organise 20 year, tailor-made Ecosystem Restoration Partnerships between companies and stakeholder groups, wherein the explicit goal would be the restoration of millions of hectares of land in cooperation with local people, farmers and NGOs, in a way that conforms with international established guidelines.

This report reviews the evidence which shows that, with properly designed measures, nature restoration actions can contribute to making farming systems more resilient and productive for the long run. It shows that a narrow focus on the amount of land under production is not an accurate measure of long-term production potential, and that addressing food availability implies factoring in the vulnerabilities linked to climate change and the costs of inaction.

The Nature4Cities project aims to develop nature-based solutions for re-naturing cities and to create a knowledge diffusion and decision support platform through new collaborative models. It tries to develop a climate resilience assessment methodology and climatic trend analysis to support municipalities in their decision-making processes. It provides a decision support guideline for climate resilience and nature-based solutions, which includes a questionnaire, a Yes/No matrix, and a collection of forms that provide information about the suggested methods and tools. The guideline has been validated through the performance of three case studies.

The Nature4Cities project aims to promote nature-based solutions for re-naturing cities. The project offers a knowledge diffusion and decision support platform through new collaborative models. The purpose of the project is to develop a typology of implementation models by identifying the barriers and drivers of these models. The outcome of the project is a comprehensive report that identifies and characterizes different governance models, financing mechanisms, business models, and management strategies for implementing nature-based solutions in European cities.