Pathways 2 Resilience

The European Commission’s Climate Change Adaptation Mission aims to support regions, cities and local authorities in the EU in their efforts to build resilience to the impacts of climate change. It aims to accompany at least 150 European regions and municipalities on their journey towards climate resilience by 2030. The P2R project has developed a new methodology with a strong focus on bringing together different stakeholder groups-including institutions, industry, the banking sector, academia and the non-profit sector-and involving them in formulating and financing the necessary projects in the regions. Program funds are allocated to regions (in the case of Prerov at the European LAU level) to support consortia in implementing this methodology.

Přerov’s successful grant application has placed it among the European leaders – it has received additional funding for activities related to climate change, energy and sustainability and has succeeded among a large international competition. This is probably the first opportunity for Přerov to benefit from Horizon Europe funding.

The project has the potential to get a lot of media attention – there are only a few Horizon projects in the whole of Europe and the methodology being developed has the potential to bring new knowledge, practice, guidance that goes directly to the biggest shortcoming of the whole “Adaptation Mission” – the lack of funding in regions and cities like Prerov, of which there are hundreds, thousands across Europe.

This is an opportunity to get funding for staff support for a project that clearly shows the public that the leadership of Přerov cares about the quality of life, the development of the city, the environment and the individual places where citizens live and work.