In a world grappling with the urgent need for climate-resilient solutions, Europe faces many challenges on its journey towards a climate-resilient future. Initiatives like the European Green Deal aim to establish a nature-positive economy and climate-resilient society by harnessing green and digital innovations. These endeavours address issues related to social engagement, digital literacy, and the readiness of institutions to embrace change.

By bringing together a formidable transnational and interdisciplinary consortium of fifty-one partners, the European project CARDIMED: "Climate Adaptation and Resilience Demonstrated In the MEDiterranean region" aspires to instigate systemic transformations towards climate resilience in the Mediterranean (MED) region by consolidating and mainstreaming initiatives that face climate adaptation and mitigation through Nature-Based Solutions (NBS).

The solution

CARDIMED proposes a framework for Climate Resilience to implement and scale up Natural-Based Solutions in the Mediterranean biogeographical region. In total, CARDIMED will demonstrate 47 different types of Nature-based Solutions through 83 interventions across ten regions and 20 locations, structuring its work around four main pillars:

  1. Digital Technologies for Climate Adaptation: Harmonizes data collection and evaluation processes on a regional scale and enhances accessibility of stakeholders through interactive tools.
  2. Socio-economic Resilience: Addresses the knowledge gap among stakeholders by facilitating knowledge conversion.
  3. Water-Food-Energy-Ecosystems (WEFE) Nexus: Develops a holistic NBS evaluation framework based on high-level data integration.
  4. Nature-Based Solutions: Promotes the application of NBS as replacements for traditional grey infrastructure on a large scale.
The four Pillars of the CARDIMED project

Participating communities will establish the CARDIMED Resilience Alliance, which will function as the vehicle for expanding the network via upscaling existing sites and adding new ones. The project expects to have 28 regions and 70 communities in the network by 2030, create 8,000 jobs in the NBS sector, and mobilize over 450 M€ in climate investment.

Our company's role

LIBRA AI Technologies will contribute to the development of CARDIMED NBS interventions management digital platform, including innovative digital immersive tools for facilitating NBS uptake for climate resilience and adaptation. Specifically, LIBRA will develop:

  • An interactive dashboard suite to provide comprehensive views of climate resilience indices resulting from NBS impact assessments, tailor-made for the stakeholders invested in CARDIMED's mission.
  • Engaging data storytelling materials aligned with the objectives and prospects of local NBS communities that will be disseminated in various formats through various channels.

The tools above will enhance the uptake of high-impact NBS measures by offering tangible, quantified, and visually compelling insights for regional and local governance, citizens, communities, and the industrial sector.

Official Launch

CARDIMED embarked on its journey in September 2023 with a pivotal three-day meeting in Athens, Greece. The consortium gathered to officially inaugurate the project's activities. Hosted by the Coordinator, the Sanitary Engineering Laboratory of NTUA, the event took place at Serafeio, City of Athens, from September 27th to September 29th, 2023.

This significant assembly brought together 123 partner representatives, including the LIBRA AI delegates, Yannis Kopsinis, Athanasios Balomenos, and George Siokas, who had the privilege of presenting our company's role in Data Exploration and Data Storytelling, effectively marking the commencement of our four and a half-year collaboration with the rest of the CARDIMED team.

LIBRA AI Team delegates at the CARDIMED Kick-off meeting in Athens.
The CARDIMED consortium at Serafeio, City of Athens.

Learn more!

CARDIMED is a 54-month European project partially funded by the European Commission's Horizon Europe Research and Innovation Programme, with a total budget of 20,806,300€. 

Read the following Press Release for more information about the project's main facts, figures and expected impact.

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