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Live Information System

The LIS-platform, a BIM-based software platform, is being developed to monitor various aspects of buildings. This platform provides a comprehensive overview of structu...

Disaster risk reduction Transport Urban Areas

Engineering and built environment

Multiclimact Project

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Live Information System

The LIS-platform, a BIM-based software platform, is being developed to monitor various aspects of buildings. This platform provides a comprehensive overview of structu...

Disaster risk reduction Transport Urban Areas

Engineering and built environment

Multiclimact Project

Nutzwasser – an alternative water resource

Aim of the „Nutzwasser“-project is to further optimize the water quality after the conventional treatment in order to generate „Nutzwasser“ as an alternative water res...

Droughts Heatwaves

Agriculture Disaster risk reduction Water management

Engineering and built environment

ARSINOE Network

IRRIFRAME

IRRIFRAME is Decision Support System for Farm Water Management aiming to ensure an efficient use of water resources in the agricultural sector.

Droughts Heatwaves

Agriculture Disaster risk reduction Water management

Governance and social innovations

ARSINOE Network

HYPRO – Hydram Powered Reverse Osmosis

HYPRO (HYdram Powered Reverse Osmosis) is a low-cost low-carbon Reverse Osmosis (RO) unit. HYPRO supplies greywater and potable water by harvesting the energy of a flo...

Droughts Heatwaves

Disaster risk reduction

Engineering and built environment

ARSINOE Network

PAP.EARTH

PAP.EARTH is an AI search engine that rewards users with EcoCoins for searches. EcoCoins support environmental projects and reduce carbon emissions. It emphasizes user...

Droughts Heatwaves Sea level rise

Ecosystem-based approaches Energy Urban Areas

Governance and social innovations

ARSINOE Network

FLood aUtonomous and dIgital Driven alert system – FLUID

The innovation proposed here, combines the micro-station solution with that of autonomous drones to trigger the deployment of an autonomous drone over the area in ques...

Coastal floods Heavy Precipitation River floods

Coastal areas Disaster risk reduction

Models and tools

ARSINOE Network

Development of Macroalgae-based remote monitoring, farming and blue-biotech systems in the Black Sea

The Black Sea suffers from eutrophication due to pollution, causing excessive algae growth that depletes oxygen and affects water quality. This project aims to use sat...

Coastal floods Multi-hazards

Coastal areas Ecosystem-based approaches

Engineering and built environment

ARSINOE Network

Non-destructive monitoring of forest and water of Ropotamo river

Remote and non-destructive monitoring with a flying drone (UAV) equipped with multispectral sensors is an innovative approach for assessing the state of surface vegeta...

Heavy Precipitation Pluvial floods River floods

Disaster risk reduction Water management

Models and tools

ARSINOE Network

AQUASmartTech

With the proposed AQUASmartTech project, we aim to design, and implement an IoT platform through which end-users can have real-time insight into water quality paramete...

Droughts Multi-hazards Pluvial floods

Agriculture Disaster risk reduction Water management

Engineering and built environment

ARSINOE Network

Waterjade: the digital twin of the catchment

Our Digital Twin software uses in situ observations, satellite data, and weather forecasts to provide accurate water forecasts and extreme event alerts, improving effi...

Droughts River floods

Agriculture Disaster risk reduction

Models and tools

ARSINOE Network

Tailored awareness platform

Our digital learning platform designed specifically for local communities makes use of technology to address the distinctive needs, cultural characteristics, and chall...

Heatwaves Multi-hazards River floods

Disaster risk reduction

ARSINOE Network

AirNode and Libelium

Aim 1 To determine air pollution source from either vessels, port operation or external source outside boundary of port authority. Aim 2 To identify more specifically ...

Health Urban Areas

Engineering and built environment

ARSINOE Network

Integrating Rain harvesting and sdar pumping

The proposed innovation is an integrated system which combines already well known and commercialized products such as rain-water-harvesting and solar pumps. Rainwater ...

Agriculture Disaster risk reduction Water management

Engineering and built environment

Tested in ARSINOE

Lobelia.AgroClimate

Lobelia.AgroClimate platform for Soil Moisture Monitoring and Climate Risk Assessment data is a comlete digital solution designed for agriculture and environmental man...

Droughts Heavy Precipitation Multi-hazards

Agriculture Disaster risk reduction

Models and tools

Tested in ARSINOE

vertECO® – the multifunctional green wall

vertECO® is a green wall that treats wastewater with plants and microbes. It purifies water for reuse, cutting tap water use by 50%. The system is eco-friendly, easy t...

Droughts Heatwaves Heavy Precipitation

Ecosystem-based approaches Urban Areas Water management

Engineering and built environment

Tested in ARSINOE

Solumar

Solumar cuts 92-99% of emissions (VOCs, CO2, SOx, NOx) for industry and maritime sectors. Our cost-saving tech reuses pollutants, uses seawater efficiently and include...

Coastal floods Heatwaves Sea level rise

Engineering and built environment

Tested in ARSINOE

ENOVA BioSense

Water pollution affects life and ecosystems. BOD takes 5 days and needs labs. Our bio-electrochemical sensors detect pollution up to 5000 times faster (1 sec to 1 min)...

Ecosystem-based approaches Health Water management

Engineering and built environment

Tested in ARSINOE

Kausal Platform

The Kausal Platform includes Kausal Watch and Kausal Paths. Kausal Watch manages climate actions, and Kausal Paths sets goals and estimates impacts. Cities can update ...

Ecosystem-based approaches Urban Areas Water management

Governance and social innovations

Tested in ARSINOE

Integrated Water Resilience System (IWRS)

The IWRS uses sensors and drones for real-time water monitoring in the Ohrid and Prespa Lakes. It engages locals for data management and community awareness, promoting...

Droughts Multi-hazards

Agriculture Biodiversity Water management

Models and tools

Tested in ARSINOE

Marina-Breath™

EMBIO's Marina-Breath™ monitors air quality for the Port of Limassol using IoT "airbeldTM." In real-time, it tracks temperature, humidity, CO2, NOx, particulates, wind...

Heatwaves Multi-hazards

Health Marine and fisheries Transport

Engineering and built environment

Tested in ARSINOE

Visualization, simulation and analyzes of the impact of climate change processes on biofiltration capacity with metaverse technology

ProVerse creates a 3D model of the Danube Delta using real-time data for water quality monitoring. Advanced analytics forecast trends and identify risks. Community pla...

Heavy Precipitation River floods Sea level rise

Biodiversity Ecosystem-based approaches Water management

Governance and social innovations

Tested in ARSINOE

WATER4ALL

WATER4ALL measures groundwater in real-time to estimate lake levels and issue alerts. Data is accessible via web and apps. It includes a study on climate impacts, rais...

Droughts Multi-hazards

Ecosystem-based approaches Water management

Governance and social innovations

Tested in ARSINOE

ARGOS

Our solution is a cloud platform (ARGOS) for managing and monitoring weather-induced emergencies, serving as a climate change adaptation measure in regions with increa...

Heavy Precipitation Multi-hazards River floods

Coastal areas Disaster risk reduction

Governance and social innovations

Tested in ARSINOE

SingularRibbon

SingularRibbon adds nature to cities with a lightweight, hydroponic structure that is easy to install on facades or pillars. It supports remote plant growth control an...

Droughts Heatwaves

Ecosystem-based approaches Health Urban Areas

Engineering and built environment

Tested in ARSINOE

3D Printing of coastal protection Reefs

The Albanian coastline has been declining in recent years due to coastal erosion and uncontrolled pier built in order to protect one area over another. Coastal erosion...

Biodiversity Coastal areas

Engineering and built environment

OBREC

To overcome the high costs of installations of Wave Energy Devices and of the energy transfer to the shore, an innovative solution has been developed. This Overtopping...

Coastal areas Disaster risk reduction Energy

Engineering and built environment

LeafSkin

Vertical gardens are nature-based solutions that provide many benefits in urban areas: increase biodiversity, reduce heat island effect, improve VOC capture, provide o...

Buildings Ecosystem-based approaches

Nature-based Services

QoAir: A blockchain-based system for heatwave management in urban areas

Every summer in big cities are reported death cases, discomforts or sicknesses, especially in elder people, because of high temperatures for many days in a row. Statis...

Models and tools

Really cooling water bodies in cities

Heat waves, increased precipitation and river flooding occur through climate change. These problems may cause substantial costs. In The Netherlands, for instance, with...

Disaster risk reduction Transport

Engineering and built environment

EFESTO

We provide a low-cost system for forest monitoring, fire prevention and detection of the cause of a fire, for all countries that currently do not have the financial, t...

Disaster risk reduction Forestry

GREENFIX f³ Fire Free Fibres Blankets

Climate change has caused extreme weather events to be more frequent. In places like Albania, Southeast Europe, summer is often very dry and hot causing wildfires in m...

Disaster risk reduction Forestry

Nature-based Services

Unified Fire Protection Units and System-UFPUS

Knowing that forest fires represent a constant threat to ecological systems, infrastructure, economy and human lives, it is necessary to undertake joint actions toward...

Disaster risk reduction Forestry

Models and tools

Wildfire Defense Platform

In Portugal we had another tragedy, the second this year (2017), ending in a 106 death toll due to wild fires, only this civil year. There is no innovation in our Fore...

Disaster risk reduction Forestry

Models and tools

Application Framework with Drone system

ICT System for early warning and monitoring composed by: on site sensors (e.g. along a river); an automated warning system; fitted for communication with deployable sy...

Water management

Models and tools

Flood Local Tool – Albania

Flash floods are characterized by the occurrence of their flood peaks within 3-6 hours after the onset of rainfall. Warning the population located close to the risked ...

Water management

Models and tools

FLUTSCHUTZ Impoundment

To secure dike sections that are at risk of breakage, structures made entirely of sandbags or sandbags in combination with fascines (cylindrical bundle of brushwood or...

Water management

Engineering and built environment

HAZ-I

A flood is the most common and the most damage inflicting natural disaster. Climate change causes more frequent extreme precipitation events globally. While increased ...

Disaster risk reduction

Models and tools

Maptionnaire in Albania

In Albania there is scarcity of information and mobilization during Civil Emergencies, mostly floods, that have increased rapidly in the recent years in many regions l...

Disaster risk reduction

Models and tools

My Flood Risk

In the EU many citizens are at risk of floods from rivers, seas and heavy rainfall. Reliable, science based information does exist, such as the EU Flood Directive maps...

Disaster risk reduction Water management

Models and tools

NOAQ Tubewall

Disaster risk reduction Water management

Engineering and built environment

Operational flood forecasting system including levee performance

Heavy rainfall and/or high discharges upstream cause rising water levels in rivers and streams. Certainly in steep areas this could lead to extremely fast rising water...

Coastal areas Water management

Models and tools

InfoSequia

Timely and systematic generation of actionable warnings and risk indicators on the severity and extent of drought and water scarcity impacts. Monitoring and forecastin...

Disaster risk reduction

Models and tools

Water from Heaven – Hemel(s)water

Water from Heaven contributes to local rain water storage and helps to overcome droughts.

Disaster risk reduction Ecosystem-based approaches

Nature-based Services

EVACOLD

Treatment of salty waters and brine effluents with a high potential for recovering salts and generating new freshwater resources

Water management

Mole: An underground soil moisture sensor linked to the cloud

Soil moisture is an important factor in precision agriculture for enabling flexible and smart irrigation strategies. Measuring soil moisture at 30-100 cm depth through...

Models and tools

Hydroeconomic DSS tools for drought management

Finding and implementation of optimal operating rules on surface reservoirs and aquifers to efficiently face drought impacts by re-arranging demand deliveries in a way...

Disaster risk reduction Water management

Models and tools

Halophyte Zeolite Wetlands (HZW)

Treatment and reuse of agro-industrial wastewaters for irrigation activities in drought prone regions

Agriculture Water management

Nature-based Services

ThirdEye: Flying Sensors to support farmers’ decision making

Farmers are confronted more and more with the consequences of climate change. Water shortages, higher temperatures, shifting seasons, more extreme events, amongst othe...

Engineering and built environment

IRRINET-IRRIFRAME

Irrigated agriculture is the most relevant water use sector, therefore highlighting the key role that efficient irrigation plays for saving water at the global level. ...

Agriculture Water management

Models and tools

Bathymetry measurements with Fishfinders

Use of low-cost devices (fishfinders) to measure bed levels, process the data into bathymetric maps and make the data easily available for the user. This creates a low...

Coastal areas Disaster risk reduction

Engineering and built environment

The Portable Natural Biological System

Small waste streams such as roadside/rail toilets, guard posts, house or small neighborhood sewage; contaminated wells and boreholes for drinking water

Health Water management

Engineering and built environment

New growing system for food vertical farming

The main specific objective of this innovation lies in recreating, indoor, environmental conditions suitable for the growth of various types of vegetal organisms

Engineering and built environment

V.E.R.A. project

WATER: Improvement of water efficiency, management, and quality/quantity; CITY SUSTAINABILITY: Improving adaptation capacity, and urban planning and resilience, Promot...

Disaster risk reduction Water management

Models and tools

FREEWAT

FREEWAT platform helps in increasing resilience to water related hazards, in particular drought, by enhancing groundwater management and supporting analysis at contami...

Disaster risk reduction

Models and tools

ARIEL, soil moisture retrieval by microwave remote sensing

High-resolution monitoring of soil moisture at the land surface level

Models and tools

RichWater

In recent years a growing concern has been expressed throughout the EU regarding water scarcity and the significant impacts on water resources by agricultural activiti...

Agriculture Water management

SkyDowser

Climate change is un undeniable fact to which we, as mankind, have to find ways to adapt. To a large extent this change relates to water. In case of extreme weather, w...

Agriculture Water management

Models and tools

Solar desalination solutions – Elemental Water Makers

Already 4 billion people face water scarcity today. Freshwater scarcity is increasing due to growing population & water footprint and climate change. The key to mo...

Energy Coastal areas Water management

Useful Wastes: Brine transformation to circular economy

Nowadays, many sectors of the industry need high quality water. For this reason industries (chemistry, pharma, food industry, etc) apply reverse osmosis to the running...

Water management

3C for Cities

Urban growth combined with increasing rainfall intensities due to climate change may lead to a rapid increase of urban flooding risk. Software based systems where diff...

Heavy Precipitation

Disaster risk reduction Transport

Models and tools

URBRAIN

The traditional urban planning and stormwater management can no longer respond to high intensity rain events (climate change) and for sustainable development alternati...

Heavy Precipitation

Transport Water management

Models and tools

WaterView – IR2

Today precipitation is monitored by combining terrestrial systems, weather radars and satellite images. The quality of today's precipitation mapping is yet to be satis...

Heavy Precipitation

Disaster risk reduction Water management

Models and tools

Tiny House B.E.S.D.®

Tiny House B.E.S.D.® is a versatile building organism which can be used in extreme conditions, thanks to its features and the technologies applied, both in prevention ...

Buildings Disaster risk reduction

Engineering and built environment

SLAMDAM®

SLAMDAM® is a temporary flood defender filled with water. A stable base to fight flooding with water.

Disaster risk reduction Water management

Floating cities with positive impact

Buildings Ecosystem-based approaches Water management

Engineering and built environment

Polderroof

Heavy rainfall events are occurring more frequent and are becoming more intense due to climate change. In dense city areas with a large share of hard surfaces (roads, ...

Buildings Water management

Engineering and built environment

MobiKat – Support for complex strategic and operative decision-making

Fraunhofer MobiKat has been designed to effectively support preparation and management of large-scale situations such as floods, droughts and other extreme weather. It...

Disaster risk reduction

Governance and social innovations

Draining pavement to support transit traffic and displace storm peak

The new BREINCO's draining pavement, which is able to support transit traffic by regular cars, allows to retain over 10 cm of water per square meter promoting runoff p...

Disaster risk reduction Transport Water management

Engineering and built environment

NoFloods mobile barrier

Quick and reliable solution for protection of people, critical infrastructure and the environment during flooding and natural disasters.

Disaster risk reduction Water management

Engineering and built environment

Drone+LiDAR for emergency response

Updated, detailed information and data acquisition on the displacement and location of flood defences is essential in emergency situations. To protect and maintain the...

Disaster risk reduction Water management

Governance and social innovations

Futureproof peat meadow polder

Peat meadow areas have to deal with soil subsidence and high emissions of carbon dioxide, because of the oxidation of the organic peat soil. The area also has to deal ...

Coastal floods Heavy Precipitation River floods

Water management

AdapKIT

Climate Change Adaptation, even when recognized as a priority, is poorly developed and adaptation measures are rarely implemented with a clear understanding of their p...

Disaster risk reduction

Governance and social innovations

Albania Alert -EWS

The Albanian National Center for Forecast and Monitoring of Natural Risks (NCFMNR) is responsible for forecasting natural hazards (floods, forest fires,…). Every day t...

Disaster risk reduction

Governance and social innovations

Paint your city green!

Mature trees will not only bring shadow but evaporation which will reduce temperature and improve comfort during summer. The successful settlement of fresh-planted tre...

Nature-based Services

Disaster Mitigation and Response Information System

This all-in-one solution is designed to cope with all the types of emergencies in focus of the BRIGAID project and also to support each stage of the crisis operations ...

Disaster risk reduction

Governance and social innovations

FlooDrought

In the last years, climate change has led to increasing disturbance of the water balance – mainly consisting in an increase of flooding events and at the same time, in...

Ecosystem-based approaches Water management

Models and tools

SolarDew

Pollution, climate change and population growth are expected to affect 5 billion people by 2050. Today, 850 million people have to worry about how they are going to pr...

Water management

Low cost meteorological stations

Meteorological data are very important for an accurate analysis of the exact cause of flood, that is why it is very important to have a large as possible data set in o...

Disaster risk reduction

Models and tools

SAEx–L (Signal of Atmosphere Extreme Locally)

Alerting the population that lives or occasionally is situated in an urban area that is expected to be hit by one or several extreme weather events. SAEx –L advises on...

Disaster risk reduction

Governance and social innovations

I-REACT

Society as a whole is increasingly exposed and vulnerable to natural disasters because extreme weather events, exacerbated by climate change, are becoming more frequen...

Disaster risk reduction

Governance and social innovations