Support at least 150 European regions and communities to become climate resilient by

2030
Johannes Klumpers
 The Mission – History of driving forces

Actors Reading*
• Commissioner Carlos Moedas • LAB – FAB – APP

• Mariana Mazzucato • Mission-Oriented Research and Innovation:

Inventory and characterisation of initiatives
• Other expert groups
• Mission-oriented research & innovation in the
European Union: A problem-solving approach
to fuel innovation-led growth

• Governing Missions: Governing Missions in the

European Union

*https://ec.europa.eu/info/research-and-innovation/funding/funding-opportunities/
funding-programmes-and-open-calls/horizon-europe/missions-horizon-europe/
mission-oriented-policy-studies-and-reports_en
The Mission – History
• Proposal HE regulation June 2018

• REGULATION (EU) 2021/695 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND

Legislation OF THE COUNCIL of 28 April 2021

• 2020-09-21 a Climate resilient Europe

Mission
Board

• COMMUNICATION FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT, THE

COUNCIL, THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COMMITTEE AND THE
Forging a climate-resilient Europe - the
COMMITTEE OF THE REGIONS
Climate new EU Strategy on Adaptation to Climate Change .
Policy COM/2021/82 final

• Implementation Plan
Implementa • Nomination Mission Manager Feb 2021
tion • Mission secretariat
Green Deal Missions:
Adaptation to Climate-neutral Restore our Soil Deal
Climate Change and Smart Cities Ocean and Waters for Europe

Objective:
Support at least 150
European regions and
communities towards
climate resilience by
2030
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 Innovation areas

© picture: Peter Lőffler

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Phases
• Set up of support system
• During this phase, some 60-100 regions and
communities will have started to be engaged in the
Build-up (2021- Mission
2023) • Evaluation

• adjustments
• engaging more regions and innovation areas
Full deployment • First recommendations on how to reach a climate
(2024-2027) change resilient Europe

• Consolidation of results
Consolidation • Focus on large scale demonstration
(2028-2030)
How will the Mission support the Regions? Horizo
n
Europe MIP
Calls
1. Horizon Europe project grants: calls currently opened and future yearly calls (eg
EIB
PCP and
and other
possible support to public procurers to buy innovative/pre-commercial solutions PPI Programmes

for climate resilience)

2. Services by Mission Implementation Platform (MIP) JRC Climate-
ADAPT

3. Scientific guidance and support by JRC

4. Access to climate adaptation knowledge from Climate-ADAPT by EEA

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Work Programme 2021: RECAP
Topic Action description Type of action Budget
In millions EUR
Help at least 150 European regions and communities towards climate
HORIZON-MISS- Development of climate change risk assessments in European regions RIA 20
resilience by 2030
2021-CLIMA-02-01 and communities based on a transparent and harmonised Climate Risk with 60%
Assessment approach cascading funds

HORIZON-MISS- Support to the regions in developing pathways towards climate RIA 30

2021-CLIMA-02-02 resilience and corresponding innovation agendas With 70%
cascading funds
HORIZON-MISS- Towards asset level modelling of climate risks and adaptation RIA 5
2021-CLIMA-02-03

HORIZON-MISS- Large scale demonstrators of climate resilience creating cross-border IA 50

2021-CLIMA-02-04 value

HORIZON-MISS- Local engagement of citizens in the co-creation of societal RIA 5

2021-CLIMA-02-05 transformational change for climate resilience

Other actions Building the Implementation Platform for the Adaptation to Climate Public 10
Change Mission Procurement
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Work Programme 2022 
Topic Action description Type of action Budget
In millions EUR
Help at least 150 European regions and communities towards climate
HORIZON-MISS- User driven applications and tools for regional and local authorities, and RIA 6
resilience by 2030
2022-CLIMA-01-01 other end users focusing on climate impacts, data and knowledge
HORIZON-MISS- Unlocking of financial resources for investments into climate resilience RIA 6 
2022-CLIMA-01-02
HORIZON-MISS- Best practices on and piloting insurance solutions for climate adaptation RIA 6
2022-CLIMA-01-03 in EU regions and communities
HORIZON-MISS- Transformation of regional economic systems for climate resilience and RIA 6
2022-CLIMA-01-04 sustainability
HORIZON-MISS- Boost the sponge function of landscape as a way to improve climate- RIA 3
2022-CLIMA-01-05 resilience to water management challenges
HORIZON-MISS- Testing and demonstrating transformative solutions on climate IA 88
2022-CLIMA-01-06 resilience, mainstreaming nature based solutions in the systemic
transformation
HORIZON-MISS- Joint demonstration for coastal resilience in the Arctic and Atlantic sea IA 20
2022-OCEAN- basin
CLIMA-01-01
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The Mission Charter
How?
• Fill in the dedicated EU Survey
• Evaluation of your commitments to climate adaptation by the Mission
Secretariat
• Get invited to sign the Mission Charter

When?
No deadline to apply. Open and inclusive process.
First signatories will be announced at the First Mission Forum

Who?
Representatives from regional and local authorities will sign the Mission Charter
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Support through the Mission Implementation Platform
(early 2023)
• Knowledge on risk assessment methods • Access tools that the region can
• Support to carry out climate risk use to engage with citizens
assessments • Direct organization of events
• Support to accelerate the roll-out of that empower citizens to act for
innovative solutions adapting to climate change
(together with the ClimatePact)
Capacity Citizens
building and engagement
development

Communicatio
n Monitoring
and and
• Network with other regions dissemination evaluation • Tracking progress and reporting
• Sharing experiences on the Mission different streams
• Access adaptation best practices of activities
from previous projects • Visibility for regional efforts and
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The Mission Charter
• 260 applications received in total
• 118 signatories announced on June 7 at the Mission Forum
• 17 Friends of the Mission announced

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First Mission signatories @ the Mission Forum
Press release and Factsheet
available at:
ec_rtd_eu-climate-mission-meet-the-regio
ns.pdf (europa.eu)

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The Mission Forum
• First ever Mission Forum
• Important element of governance
• 150 participants in the room, 120 linked through Interactio, 1200 participants
on-line, 200 participants participating in the sli.do polls.

• Links between European, national and regional level discussed

• Approach confirmed
• Urged to work across Missions (especially Cities and Adaptation)
• Financing and combination of finances identified as a major headache for
regions
• Not enough skilled staff in regional administrations
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