September 27, 2024
CARDIMED Project - Third Consortium Meeting in Catania
From September 24th to 27th, CARDIMED partners convened in Catania, Italy, for the third project consortium meeting hosted by the University of Catania. Representing eBOS at the meeting was R&D Project Manager Dr. Kleanthis Erotokritou, who led the company’s involvement in the project. This meeting, marking month 12 of the project, allowed the 51 participating organisations to present their achievements, discuss open issues, and review project progress. A primary focus was finalising the DEMOS’s design phase, ensuring that all technical and architectural requirements were met for the following project stages.
The CARDIMED project aims to enhance climate resilience in the Mediterranean region by integrating efforts across countries and continents. It deploys digital infrastructure to streamline data collection and evaluation, providing open data to all Nature-based Solutions stakeholders. The project includes smart digital tools for citizen engagement and capacity building, supported by a multi-stakeholder strategy focused on knowledge translation and impact. Using holistic modelling with the Water-Energy-Food-Ecosystems Nexus approach, CARDIMED addresses socio-ecological challenges and investment issues. The initiative is being implemented across nine demonstration sites, ten regions, twenty locations, and twenty-eight communities, involving forty-seven Nature-Based Solutions linked to eighty-three interventions. The CARDIMED Resilience Alliance will expand the network, aiming to reach twenty-eight regions and seventy communities by 2030, create 8,000 jobs, and attract over €450 million in climate investment.
EBOS plays a crucial role in the CARDIMED project by actively coordinating demonstration activities and leading the specific tasks related to DEMO9. In this role, EBOS collaborates with various partners, overseeing the implementation of interventions in “Gardens of the Future in the Heart of Nicosia City.” This includes installing cameras, employing AI-based plant growth monitoring, coordinating the design & implementation of halophyte system (IRIDRA, NTUA), subsurface rainwater harvesting solutions (HYDRASPIS) and wall-based green facades (GoTF) and managing alignment and replication efforts (Municipality of Nicosia). EBOS’s involvement spans from the design and procurement phase to the evaluation of objectives and KPIs in the later stages of the project. The overall objective is to showcase and validate Nature Based Solutions (NBS) for climate resilience and adaptation, ensuring effective coordination and successful implementation of DEMO9 activities.
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