Provision of knowledge support for the European climate risk assessment (EUCRA) - Phase I and II

  • Duration: 2022 - 2024
  • Status: Completed
  • Budget: 1 800 000€

European Climate Risk Assessment (EUCRA) aimed to address the climate risks in Europe and helped the member countries to develop further their national climate risk assessments. This assessment was to establish a European baseline of climate risks on which countries can build on their national assessments.

Project management
Johan Munck af Rosenschöld (Syke)
Project team
Timothy Carter, Stefan Fronzek, Claire Mosoni, Nina Pirttioja, Kimmo Tolonen, Noora Veijalainen, Markku Viitasalo, Terhi Havimo
Financiers
Other EU funding, European Environment Agency (EEA)
Partners
Lead: Fondazione Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici (Italy)
European Academy of Bozen-Bolzano (Italy), Barcelona Supercomputing Center- Centro Nacional de Supercomputación (Spain), Predictia Intelligent Data Solutions SL (Spain), Stiftelsen The Stockholm Environment Institute (Sweden), Wageningen University, Department of Environmental Sciences (The Netherlands) and PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (The Netherlands).
Subject area
Climate, Built environment

Project description

This contract aimed at carrying out the European Climate Risk Assessment (EUCRA). The main policy purposes of EUCRA were: 

  •  to support the identification of adaptation-related policy priorities for the next European Commission (to be nominated in 2024),  
  •  to support the prioritization of adaptation-related investments for the next multi-annual financial framework (MFF) of the European Union,  
  •  to support EU policy development in climate-sensitive sectors,  
  •  to provide an EU-wide point of reference for conducting and updating national or subnational climate risk assessments. 

In short, EUCRA aimed to address the climate risks in Europe and helped the member countries to develop further their national climate risk assessments. This assessment was to establish a European baseline of climate risks on which countries can build on their national assessments. The assessment also supported the EIONET by organizing workshops and meetings to inform the national stakeholders about the results and maximize the uptake of the outputs and use of the results at national and subnational levels. Syke co-led two work packages (Policy analysis & Risk evaluation) and contributed to four work packages.
 

More information

Swift action needed for managing growing climate risks in Europe
Published 5.8.2025 / Updated 7.8.2025