National Adaptation Hubs - Bringing together the national level with the engaged regional and local levels (multi-level governance)

Expected Outcome: In support of the implementation of the Mission on Adaptation to climate change and of the upcoming European Climate Adaptation Plan , the successful project is expected to contribute to multi-level governance for climate adaptation by addressing all of the following outcomes: The relevant national governance for innovation and climate adaptation is further engaged and mobilised to contribute to the objectives of the Adaptation Mission and benefit from it. In turn, the Mission fosters multi-level governance, supporting Member States, regions and local authorities in their efforts to implement the European Climate Law’s requirements on climate adaptation, and to further develop and update their adaptation plans. Mission solutions are disseminated beyond the regions and local authorities actively involved in the Mission and peer learning opportunities (within and outside) the Mission are strengthened, to bridge the gap between the EU, the national and local levels. Scope: Regional and local authorities are the target group of the proposed activities and as such they are not expected to participate directly in the consortium, but they should benefit from the project funded by this action. The project is expected to last until the end of the Mission, i.e. end of 2030. The project will be a follow-up to the project stemming from HORIZON-MISS-2024-CLIMA-01-02 , and hence it should collaborate with such existing project to ensure a smooth transition from one project’s implementation to the other, maintaining the continuity of Mission Adaptation’s support for the national hubs. Moreover, the project should ensure lessons learnt from the project stemming from HORIZON-MISS-2024-CLIMA-01-02 are duly taken into account. Proposals should address two axes of action for which all the following aspects should be addressed: 1. National adaptation hubs National adaptation hubs (one per EU country and at least a single horizontal facility for Associated Countries) are meant to be light, agile, and flexible, to be tailored to the national context. They consist in a sort of task force or working group composed of the relevant contact points from each level of governance relevant in the individual countries. The hubs should: Continue and extend the “National adaptation hubs” established by the Adaptation Mission Build on the key community systems and enabling conditions identified in the Mission Implementation Plan to identify the priority areas of work of the “National adaptation hubs”. These priority areas should reflect what is included in the National St…