This publication aids in climate risk screening for agricultural projects, considering exposure, hazards, vulnerabilities, and adaptive capacities. It provides recommendations for addressing these risks early in the investment cycle.

The goal of this handbook is to promote climate-resilient infrastructure to public-private partnerships (PPP) practitioners, ensuring that new and existing projects account for physical climate risks, are able to adapt to future climate, socio-economic and technological change scenarios, and harness the potential of Nature-based Solutions (NBS) across the infrastructure lifecycle.

In the ClimeFish project, guidelines for creating Climate Adaptation Plans (CAPs) for fisheries and aquaculture were developed over the course of 4 years. The final version of the guidelines was based on lessons learned from making CAPs in seven different case studies within freshwater and marine fisheries and aquaculture sectors, with high stakeholder involvement.

Following the instructions received from the European Commission, this synthesis document outlines CLISEL’s major results, the lessons learnt from the interactions with different actors and the challenges that need to be addressed. Finally, it elaborates a specific set of recommendations for action at three different levels (local, national and European) by involving the key stakeholders of our project: local authorities, academia and policy-makers. 

The CO3 Project, focused on disruptive technologies like Augmented Reality and Blockchain for co-producing public services, encountered challenges and evolved during its implementation. This policy brief discusses the Co-Production and Co-Management phases, offering recommendations based on evaluation data. The document explores the CO3 model's Augmented Commoning Area (ACA), digital technologies in urban contexts, and the processes of co-production. It emphasizes the impact of disruptive technologies on citizen-government relationships and provides insights into where disruptive technologies make a difference in public service provision.

Released in February 2020, this policy brief from the CO3 Project explores the application of co-design methodology during its initial phase. Focused on integrating disruptive technologies, the document delves into the evolving relationship between participatory design and public service innovation. It outlines the CO3 project's field of action, introduces co-design as a methodology, and highlights relevant cases. The brief shares activities and results from the project's first year, offering key lessons on benefits and risks. It concludes with policy implications to leverage design-oriented innovation through participatory approaches.

This policy brief from the CO3 Project, released as the second installment, delves into the implementation of disruptive technologies within the CO3 project framework. It provides an overview of the CO3 project, details the adopted disruptive technologies (Blockchain, Augmented Reality, Civic social networks, Interactive Democracy, and Gamification), and explores their implementation in pilot projects across Athens, Paris, and Turin. The document emphasizes the positive and negative perceptions associated with these technologies and draws lessons from pilot experiences.

COLLABS will develop, validate, demonstrate, and support a comprehensive cyberintelligence framework for collaborative manufacturing, which enables the secure data exchange across the digital supply chain while providing high degree of resilience, reliability, accountability and trustworthiness, and addresses threat prevention, detection, mitigation, and real-time response.

COLLABS will achieve these goals by utilising state-of-the-art technologies and making significant scientific and technological advances in several key relevant domains, including secure multi-party computations and homomorphic encryption, distributed deep learning and anomaly detection, distributed ledger technologies (blockchain) and smart contracts, and distributed remote software attestation.

This document presents the final results of the COLLABS project's execution, focusing on the deployment, evaluation, and impact analysis of its cyber-intelligence framework. The framework addresses security needs in industrial use cases, demonstrating its capabilities through real-life industrial demonstrations. Key findings include high fulfillment of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), successful integration of Common Security Requirements (CSRs), and positive feedback from External Advisory Board (EAB) and workshops. The impact analysis highlights the framework's effectiveness in addressing security needs across various industrial scenarios, with recommendations for further development.

Given their historic emissions and economic capability, we analyze a leadership role for representative industrialized regions (EU, US, Japan, and Australia) in the global climate mitigation effort. Using the global integrated assessment model REMIND, we systematically compare region-specific mitigation strategies and challenges of reaching domestic net-zero carbon
emissions in 2050. Embarking from different emission profiles and trends, we find that all of the regions have technological options and mitigation strategies to reach carbon neutrality by 2050.

This report is a case study in the area of community-based research into financial resilience. It consists of an understanding of the enablers and barriers to financial resilience in a community and recommendations to those providing direct services to low-income households in said community - community groups, advice/support organisations, council support - and decision-makers at the local and national level.

The Compete4SECAP project aims to empower local authorities to actively implement Energy Management Systems and bring to life their Sustainable Energy and Climate Action Plans. It provides a strategic approach and practical guidance for local authorities in Europe, with a focus on energy management, integrated climate action, and energy-saving competitions. It attempts to provide a comprehensive guide that outlines the theory and practice of the C4S project; presents key results and success stories from participating countries; and offers recommendations for local authorities and supporting consultants.

This is a policy brief outlining directives and laws for deploying COMPILE in European energy communities, including regulatory recommendations. The report examines EU laws, specifically for Energy Communities (EnC), addressing transposition of the European definition through Renewable Energy Communities (REC) and Citizen Energy Communities (CEC), and key directives (Renewables, Energy Efficiency, Buildings Performance), concluding with financing mechanisms for EnC.

The present document presents the "Cybersecurity Roadmap for Europe by CONCORDIA" based on the state of play up to and including December 2022. The general aim of this roadmap is to both identify and jointly work towards addressing, mitigating (and even resolving) the challenges regarding European digital sovereignty, overcoming fragmentation while identifying and joining European brainpower and forces to build, boost an amplify the gains of (the road towards) building, achieving and sustaining European digital sovereignty. As this is a dynamic, ever-changing and expanding dimension that affects almost everything, this Roadmap reflects the state of play through December 2022.

This study identifies cascading effects of supply chain disruptions on critical sectors, such as food, water, energy, and healthcare systems. Since these systems are closely integrated, and the impact of COVID-19 needs to be analysed at a much broader level, this study uses systems thinking approach to study the effect of supply chain disruptions on critical services. The study also develops a causal loop model to gain further insight into how supply chain disruptions caused by COVID-19 affected the coping capabilities of society and how critical services were affected. Further, the study also puts forth certain policy recommendations for both businesses and governments to prepare and protect against a similar situation in the future

This study uses systems thinking approach to study the effect of supply chain disruptions on critical services. The study also develops a causal loop model to gain further insight into how supply chain disruptions caused by COVID-19 affected the coping capabilities of society and how critical services were affected. Further, the study also puts forth certain policy recommendations for both businesses and governments to prepare and protect against a similar situation in the future

This Recommendation sets out a series of targeted actions at Union and national level to support and enhance the resilience of critical infrastructure, on a voluntary basis, with a focus on critical infrastructure with significant cross-border relevance and in identified key sectors, such as energy, digital infrastructure, transport and space. Those targeted actions consist of enhanced preparedness, enhanced response and international cooperation.

This paper outlines how 2019 and 2020 Country Specific Recommendations (CSRs) covering gender related issues are addressed in national Recovery and Resilience Plans (RRPs). It also compiles the Member States’ explanations on how their plans contribute to gender equality, as required by the Recovery and Resilience Facility Regulation (RRF Regulation).

This paper explores the empirical association between patents and various indicators of firm resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic with worldwide firm-level data from manufacturing industries. The study shows that patent-intensive firms have a reduced probability of exit, in particular if they are larger and if engaging with complementary investments in R&D and other intangibles. Additional estimates show that firm productivity has been an important transmission channel. Taken together, the results presented in the paper offer evidence-based findings pointing to patents as an important potential factor contributing to firm resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic. Policy insights are discussed.