I-CHANGE project (I-CHANGE)

Background

The documented effects of climate change and environmental degradation are a threat to human societies on European and global scales. Climate change may have an impact on water availability, may increase the threat of flooding and flash-floods, and will challenge coastal regions due to rising sea levels. All this will have impacts on the economy and society. The role of citizens and their skills become important both in limiting human impacts on climate and in facilitating an appropriate adaptation process.

Purpose

I-CHANGE intends to promote a learning process aimed at improving citizens’ knowledge of the phenomenon of climate change, and to make them understand how to mitigate its impacts through behavioural changes and/or structural actions (such as nature-based solutions).

Methods

I-CHANGE will act through (i) the direct collection of environmental and societal-economic data with new and easy-to-use tools (sensors, monitoring devices, simplified models and data resources) (ii) the promotion of co-designed learning pathways, (iii) the provision of targeted and customised tools (apps, best-practices) to citizens to enable a change of behaviour and consumption towards sustainable models.