PIISA
Piloting Innovative Insurance Solutions for Adaptation
The PIISA project and its consortium partners aim at
developing innovative insurance products that are tailored to specific contexts
and promote virtuous interaction between risk sharing and risk reduction in
adaptation planning and implementation.
The envisaged insurance products in PIISA are unique in three ways:
they employ novel or yet scarcely used risk sharing mechanisms, use new climate risk data services,
and allow smart interaction with adaptation efforts resulting in increased overall resilience.
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and
innovation programme under grant agreement No 101112841.
Client European Commission
Year 2023-2026
TAGS Insurance and finance
AEROPLANE
Adaptation and Mitigation measures for Aviation
Recent global disasters have highlighted the perils of climate change.
The aviation industry is intricately linked to this issue due to its substantial greenhouse gas emissions,
which lead to increasingly devastating extreme weather events that in turn significantly impact the industry itself.
The EU-funded AEROPLANE project has a mission to create an innovative toolkit that can mitigate emissions
associated with aviation while also equipping the aviation sector to respond effectively to rapid weather
and climate shifts.
The project will leverage insights from various researchers specialising in aviation emissions and their impacts,
developing fresh approaches to both the mitigation of and adaptation to climate change in terms of reducing
vulnerability to weather-related phenomena.
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and
innovation programme under grant agreement No 101112842.
Client European Commission (SESAR3 Joint Undertaking)
Year 2023-2025
TAGS Aviation
AGRICLIMA
Innovating Data-Driven Climate Adaptation Solutions for Agriculture
The AGRICLIMA project aims to create an innovative technological platform for analyzing the impacts
of climate change on agriculture and developing tools for risk mitigation. From a technological innovation
perspective, the platform will offer tools to facilitate the collection, cataloging,
and simplified access to a significant set of public and private datasets.
Following the principles of creating an 'EU Data Space,' it will enable the secure management and
exchange of public and private data, respecting data sovereignty. From an application standpoint,
it will integrate a set of relevant datasets and data processing models that will allow the study
and understanding of relationships between some of the main phenomena influencing agricultural productivity
and risk management, such as climate, crop phenology, and hydrological dynamics.
Founding source: PNRR - National Center for Technology in Agriculture - “Bando Spoke 4 W.P. 4.3 Agritech"
Year 2024-2025
TAGS Agriculture
SUNNY
Optimizing Microclimate Monitoring for AgriPV Systems
Project SUNNY focuses on microclimate monitoring for AgriPV systems at the Randwijk site
in the Netherlands. It integrates real-time sensor data with Amigo’s statistical downscaling of seasonal forecasts.
Key features include high resolution (300 m) forecasts for soil moisture, land surface temperature, and solar
irradiance with a six month horizon. An AI engine performs downscaling and bias correction.
The innovation relies in predictive seasonal capabilities that help AgriPV operators and farmers manage variability
under solar panels. Benefits include up to 20% irrigation savings and greater climate resilience.
Founding source: TALOS
Year 2025
TAGS AgriPV, Microclimate, Climate Services
NUA-FUTURAL
Climate Intelligence for Mountainous Rural Regions
Project NUA, part of the FUTURAL programme, addresses climate adaptation
in mountainous rural regions, focusing on the Kitzbühel area in Austria. The region depends on grassland based
dairy farming and faces rising risks from floods, hail, and shifting vegetation periods.
NUA provides farmers and rural stakeholders with hyperlocal climate intelligence and actionable
recommendations for diversification, resilience, and long term sustainability.
The Smart Solution (SS) integrates advanced machine learning downscaling, high resolution (300 m)
bioclimatic indicators, and an AI powered recommendation engine.
Founding source: FUTURAL
Year 2025-2026
TAGS Rural Adaptation, Mountain Agriculture, Climate Intelligence
COSMIC
Water and Environmental management with real-time alerts and seasonal forecasts
The COSMIC project focuses on optimizing water resource management in the Fiastra Valley using
Finapp srl Cosmic-Ray Neutron Sensing (CRNS) probes (for real-time soil moisture monitoring) and seasonal forecasts.
Applications include irrigation recommendations for agriculture and 72 hour early warning services
for landslide areas. The system integrates short term data with seasonal climate forecasts,
remote sensing, and AI algorithms.
Objectives include developing sustainable, scalable solutions to optimize water use, improve drought
resilience, and enhance landslide monitoring. A key innovation is combining real-time CRNS data with
high-resolution (300 m) seasonal forecasts downscaled.
Founding source: COSMIC
Year 2025-2027
TAGS Water Management, Soil Moisture, Agriculture, AI