A unifying approach to the analysis of LTC investments which encourages the optimal use of available resources as well as learning and policy discovery is needed in order to inform the development of LTC systems across the EU. SPRINT examines how far new ideas on social investment (SI) can serve this need.

The tool is designed to provide decision-makers with information about the outcomes of social investment in long-term care. The tool can be used for both ex-post and ex-ante analysis.

This document delves into SPROUT's strategic approach, presenting city-specific policy responses categorised under pillars such as better understanding, regulation, financing, data, and infrastructure. Going beyond the initial scope, it enriches these responses considering transferability constraints and innovation readiness. The report also bundles policy measures, aligning them with the urban policy lifecycle stages. SPROUT's city-led policy responses underwent validation, ensuring effectiveness and efficiency, with further validation stages planned for the next Consortium meeting.

This document from the SPROUT project, titled "Urban Mobility Transition Drivers," outlines the diverse challenges posed by digitally-enabled business models and evolving mobility patterns. Task 2.3 results provide an insight into the significance assigned to these drivers by each SPROUT city. The document emphasizes the importance of locally specific drivers in constructing city scenarios. Additionally, it identifies key stakeholders impacted by or influencing emerging mobility solutions, essential for the ongoing SPROUT project stages, including narrative scenario development.

This document contains an analysis of the factors, elements, structure and agents involved in communication in risk situations within an organisation. The document establishes a series of Guidelines on Risk Communication Principles that can be used by the project stakeholders when implementing communication strategies during a pandemic.

This document sets out to capture the broad principles to enable the understanding through the medium of analysis, data synthesis, and modelling, the state and progression of a disease outbreak. It is intended that insights gained in this manner will be taken from the scientific and analytical realm and presented to decision-makers so that they may make informed choices.

This policy brief assesses the varying capacities of states and national differences, and makes a series of recommendations designed to improve public trust in official communications during pandemics.

This policy brief makes recommendations geared towards improving pandemic data governance and data sharing in ways that support advancing research. As a whole, it aims to support practitioners and decision-makers who implement personal data protection policies that balance the benefits of data sharing for public health with the risk to individuals from that sharing.

This Policy Brief makes recommendations geared towards improving pandemic decision-makers understanding of predictive modelling. Crucial to the recommendations is the need to invest in making the predictive modelling design process inclusive of policymakers. 

This document outlines the management methodology of the Air Traffic Management (ATM) macro model within the "START" project, focusing on network resilience under disruptive events. The document explains the integration of trajectory uncertainties and disruptive events into the model, emphasizing thunderstorms. The goal is to optimize interventions for network stability, considering over-treatment and management costs. The optimization problem is solved using reinforcement learning, providing insights into target pairs and regulated flights. The document presents case studies and results for selected time windows affected by thunderstorms in North-West Europe in June 2018.

This report assesses the interaction between the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF) and the European Semester by outlining coordination mechanisms between the two in the broader context of economic governance in the EU. Two main elements of this interaction are emphasised: coordination of investments and implementation capacities. The briefing argues that coordination of investment programmes remains fragmented in the EU, while the notion of policy capacities and experimentation should be given more strategic consideration in the Semester and RRF evaluation frameworks.

The purpose of this research was to explore what factors or assets had contributed to resilience in different Welsh places, and understand where public investments could be made to strengthen resilience in anticipation of any future crises.

This paper presents a conceptual and analytical framework to sequence water-related investments along “Strategic Investment Pathways”. This approach considers a range of diverse investments over multiple scenarios and evaluates options relative to stakeholder-defined goals. It explicitly considers key dynamic processes, interdependencies and feedbacks within the water system. The aim is to inform investment decisions that contribute to water system resilience through effective and adaptive management over time.

A total of 83 best practice examples collected from 26 countries demonstrate the potential of cultural heritage solutions in the context of climate change; they provide an invaluable source of inspiration and ideas to emulate. Through the setting up of the OMC expert group on strengthening cultural heritage resilience for climate change, cultural heritage has received a strong commitment from the highest political level for support in the fight against climate change.

This briefing provides an initial analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of the European Commission's impact assessment (IA) accompanying a proposal which aims to harmonise and streamline the EU regulatory landscape by introducing horizontal cybersecurity requirements for products with digital elements, such as end devices (e.g. laptops and smartphones), software (e.g. mobile applications – 'apps') and components (e.g. video cards).

Despite an increased interest in the concept of resilience and its practical applications among health systems analysts and policy-makers, there is still much confusion about what resilience means, how to strengthen it and how to assess it. In this brief we aim to address these gaps and thus support a more consistent understanding and use of the concept. The brief analyses experiences of other countries in order to sensitize those responsible for implementing resilience-strengthening strategies and those responding to actual shocks to the complex effects of shocks on the various elements of the health system and thus inform their strategic choices.

This paper introduces hospital resilience and its critical role in health systems. It outlines the common challenges faced by hospitals in the Eastern Mediterranean Region and provides recommendations for policy-makers and hospital managers on improving preparedness for greater resilience.

This brief discusses the potential of co-management in small-scale fisheries to bolster resilience. Focusing on the Co-management Northern Bohuslän initiative in Sweden's west coast, it showcases how multi-stakeholder collaborations can foster knowledge exchange and adaptation within fisheries. The initiative emphasizes sustainable local fisheries and blue growth. The report offers insights into challenges, opportunities, and recommendations for enhancing sustainability and resilience through co-management in the Nordic region.

This note provides key information, practical examples and case studies to support UNICEF country offices to integrate child-sensitive DRR and resilience into local governance programming

The paper provides an overview of 10 opportunities for service providers, investors, and donors to improve rural women’s resilience to climate change, and gives examples of innovative ways in which financial and agricultural service providers are already seizing these opportunities.