
On the 1st of January 2024 the Horizon Europe project called PRO-CLIMATE officially kicked-off. The full name of this 3-year project is “Proactive community adaptation to climate change through social transformation and behavioral change” and it was approved for funding in the frame of the Horizon Europe Research Programme (call topic “HORIZON-CL5-2023-D1-01-09: Behavioral change and governance for systemic transformations towards climate resilience”).
PRO-CLIMATE aims to support communities to proactively adapt to climate change through social transformation and behavioral change. To achieve this, PRO-CLIMATE will identify social tipping points and policy actions that enable systemic transformation to be achieved across social systems. PRO-CLIMATE will adopt an approach guided by the concept of systems thinking, which views communities as complex systems that are interconnected and influenced by multiple factors, socio-economic and environmental. By understanding and leveraging their dynamics, it will then develop strategies and interventions that promote social transformation and behavioral change. This will result in a robust framework for designing effective methodologies and tools to foster proactively adaptive behaviors and facilitate transformative changes.
A set of diverse (in terms of climate change problems and socio-economic contexts) case studies across Europe will be an instrumental tool for the co-creation, validation, and upscaling of this framework by running living labs and bringing stakeholders together to understand community governance and institutional structures, and to also pilot and validate the project’s behavior change activities.
The PRO-CLIMATE consortium comprises 10 partners from 7 countries, each bringing
exceptional expertise in the tasks outlined for the project. This consortium forms a truly unique and interdisciplinary group of highly skilled and experienced research teams, specifically assembled to achieve the project’s goals. To learn more about our project, visit the website at https://pro-climate.eu/ and subscribe to the newsletter.


