NEUROCLIMA aims to develop an innovative solution to support systemic transformations and foster citizen engagement for climate resilience. It envisions a “nervous system” connecting policymakers, public institutions, and citizens, powered by AI-enhanced decision-making support. This system comprises an AI-driven monitoring infrastructure with modular web services (back-end) and visualization mechanisms (front-end) to track trends, discourses, and perceptions related to the green transition, climate change, and broader climate challenges.
By analyzing social media and employing advanced AI techniques, the system will identify project-related themes and highlight social tipping points and leverage opportunities for implementing climate adaptation strategies.
The project’s main objectives are as follows:
- To conceive a nervous system that monitors behavioural adaptation to climate change mitigation and evaluates social tipping dynamics at scale.
- To support the implementation of the EU Adaptation Strategy and the Mission on Adaptation to Climate Change through framework, toolkits, recommendations and activities that address the climate imperative through participatory problem-solving approaches and support of citizens’ climate literacy.
- To design tools for the empowerment of citizens’ and decision makers’ participation in the Adaptation to Climate Change, through capitalising upon strategic leverage points, engagement and behavioural change mechanisms, and climate literacy.
- To verify and validate the proposed solution through pilot demonstrations, evaluating the introduced novelties on representative use cases.
- To raise awareness about the proposed solution, provide best practices and recommendations for more efficient policymaking around the climate imperative, and exploit the project results in a sustainable way.
ITML’s role in the project
ITML will oversee several critical responsibilities, focusing on both technical and coordination roles. ITML will act as the Technical and Scientific Coordinator, ensuring effective management of research and development activities to guarantee progress across individual modules and the overall project. As the Integration Leader, ITML will facilitate the interoperability and integration of mechanisms developed in WP4, aligned with requirements specified in WP2, while also establishing a reusable methodology for future ITML projects.
For more information, visit the official project website: https://neuroclima.eu/
Acknowledgment
The project NEUROCLIMA has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe Research and Innovation Programme under the Grant Agreement No. 101137711.
