Our common heritage is a central element of our communities and economies, and a principal but vulnerable dimension of our common identity as Europeans. It has been proven that cultural heritage contributes to well-being, social cohesion, identity, local economy, territorial attractiveness, and environmental sustainability, but the climate crisis and natural hazards endanger this heritage. We propose RescueME to take immediate action for demonstrating how an innovative data-driven, community-based, heritage-centric actionable landscape approach to resilience enhancement can protect our cultural heritage and landscapes while supporting the transition toward a green society and economy that sustains resilient, cohesive, nature-connected communities. RescueME proposes a call for action, broadening the scope, triggering action, untapping and mobilizing resources, engaging actors, and facilitating the decision making and the implantation of co-created just resilience solutions to protect our common heritage. RescueME will develop, test and demonstrate the effectiveness of an Actionable Framework based on the Resilient Historical Landscape approach (RHL) complemented by data, models, methods, and tools able to assess risks and opportunities, co-develop inclusive and just resilience strategies and innovative solutions to protect European cultural heritage and cultural landscapes from climate change, disaster risk, as well as other stressors (such as pollution and over-tourism) with special focus on European coastal landscapes since a large share of this endangered heritage there. The five case studies (Psiloritis in Creta, Neuwerk in Hamburg, Portovenere, Cinque Terre & the Islands, València and the city of Zadar) have been selected carefully as complementary representatives of European coastal landscapes. They will act as resilience landscape laboratories (R- labscapes), validate the results and ensure their replicability.

The overall aim of ATM4E is to explore the scope for the potential reduction of air traffic environmental impacts in European airspace on climate, air quality, and noise through optimization of air traffic operations The project will integrate existing methodologies for assessment of the environmental impact of aviation, in order to evaluate the feasibility of environmentally-optimized flight operations to the European ATM network, including climate, air quality, and noise impacts. A preliminary modelling concept for climate-optimization has previously been developed for an FP7 European Project, (REACT4C). The ‘case-study’ approach of REACT4C will be built upon and extended to a multi-dimensional environmental impact assessment, to cover climate, air quality and noise, to better understand impacts in the European airspace. Different traffic scenarios (present-day and future) will be analysed to understand the extent to which environmentally-optimized flights based on multi-dimensional environmental criteria (assessment) would lead to changes in air traffic flows and create challenges for ATM. The findings of the project will be used to prepare a roadmap that is consistent with SESAR2020 principles and objectives, which would consider the necessary steps and actions that would need to be taken to ultimately introduce environmentally-optimized flight operations in European airspace.

The FLEXIBI project aims at implementing combined and coordinated modelling and experimental approaches to design a decision support tool devoted to assess the most efficient and sustainable small-scale biorefinery for undervalorised sources of biomass from agri-industrial and peri-urban wastes. The main driving force of the project being to develop a flexible and predictable process able to manage variable biomass (in composition and time) adapted to local context and feedstock (Small-scale Flexi-feed Biorefineries, SFB). With the general view to further promote SFB, the FLEXIBI decision support tool will be developed upon knowledge engineering, quantitative process modelling and experimental assessments of representative pilot feedstocks from different urban and peri-urban waste origin (agricultural and agro-industry, landscaping and gardening, post-consumer wood wastes). The flexi-feed concept refers to the nature of feedstock or feedstock mixtures from various biomass supply chains. Such flexibility combined with the valorisation of multiple high value products (beyond bioenergy and fertilisers) is expected to bring a buffering value (seasonal, functional and geographical) to support the market roll-out of bioressources. Three pilot regions (Hamburg, Flanders and Nantes) will provide the necessary experimental data and samples for the project. Under the coordination of INRA, six major players (Hamburg University, Hamburg University of Technology , Ecole Supérieure du Bois, University of Helsinki and KU Leuven) will act with the support of an Advisory Board. A model for economic and environmental assessment of utilization strategies of undervalorised wastes in agri-industrial/peri-urban areas will be developed and validated based on the outputs of the flexi-feed biorefinery processes. The academic partners will act jointly within an integrated and multidisciplinary approach connecting stakeholders from production, transformation and policy sectors. The FLEXIBI tool will support stakeholders over the whole value chain (waste managers, SFB designers, local authorities) in opening new ways towards bioeconomy through the implementation of economically viable small-scale solutions. Beyond the decision support tool (DST) for SFB implementation, other outputs of the project will include new knowledge on the valorisation of currently underexploited waste, on the development of high value products and on the management of feedstock mixtures in biorefineries. This results in policy recommendations to further promote SFB development. These outputs are expected to have an impact as a unique reference knowledge on biorefinery performance. Furthermore, processing underexploited waste at a local level should save natural resources and contribute to decreased fossil fuel use. Moreover, new valorised products will further emphasise replacement of oil-based products while local economy will benefit by revenues from the local biomass use.