Project title: Enhancing Climate Data Cooperation for Evidence-based Adaptation Policy Making in the Danube Region

Project acronym: Danube-ADAPT

Project duration: 1. 4. 2025 – 31. 3. 2028 

Total project value: 2.683.939,50 EUR 

Financing: European Regional Development Fund

Partners: 

1. HungaroMet Hungarian Meteorological Service Nonprofit Ltd. – lead partner
2. Research Institute for National Strategy – project partner
3. Slovak Hydrometeorological Institute – project partner
4. Ukrainian Hydrometeorological Institute – project partner
5. National Meteorological Administration – project partner
6. Slovenian Environment Agency – project partner
7. Babes-Bolyai University – project partner
8. Scientific Research Centre Bistra Ptuj – project partner
9. North-West Croatia Regional Energy and Climate Agency – project partner
10. Czech Smart City Cluster – project partner
11. Šibenik - Knin County – project partner
12. Global Change Research Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences – project partner
13. Municipality of Domžale – project partner
14. Municipality of Cluj-Napoca – project partner
15. Agency for Regional Development Support Košice – project partner
16. Central European Service for Cross-Border Initiatives Balkans – project partner

The project is joined by 7 strategic partners.

Project objective:
The Danube-ADAPT project aims to improve the availability of harmonised data and knowledge in the Danube Region to support evidence-based policy making for climate change adaptation.

The Danube-ADAPT project aims to create harmonised data availability and knowledge in the Danube Region to support evidence-based climate adaptation policy making by strengthening the cooperation of key actors of the region and developing a territorially integrated climatological baseline database, a common vulnerability assessment framework, both tailored to the region, as well as a set of tools, namely a platform to support climate change adaptation policy in the Danube Region.

As the Danube-ADAPT project aims to improve climate adaptation capacities and evidence-based policy-making by developing a common framework for vulnerability assessments in the Danube region, including the establishment of a baseline climatological database and a policy support platform, the project will heavily draw on past and current project insights, first-hand experience of Project and Associated Strategic Partners and other available knowledge to craft tailored solutions that effectively address the climate adaptation challenges of the region.

Activities: 

• Building a climate observation database for the Danube Region,
• Creation of a database of future climate projections for the Danube Region,
• Elaboration of a comprehensive Climatological Baseline Database.