📋 Tender Overview
Start Date: 01/10/2023
End Date: 30/09/2028
Total Eligible Budget: 1,746,561 €
EU Contribution: 1,047,937 €
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
BACKGROUND
The historic drought of 2022 and other climate impacts like the change in rainfall patterns and extreme temperatures in Hungary and Europe, together with the recent economic crisis with rising food and energy prices, dramatically highlight the vulnerability of small rural settlements. Their vulnerability is further exacerbated by their greater dependence on agriculture and natural resources, lack of sufficient resources and neglect by policy-makers. While their climate adaptation efforts are clearly induced by climate change, the need for better adaptation also derives from their loss of resilience factors, such as the so-called traditional knowledge and networks of mutual support, making the population more vulnerable to climate change impacts. Parallelly, the ageing local population having traditional knowledge is often being complemented by newcomer settlers, open to ecological ways of living, yet with less knowledge about natural resources. LIFE Co-Clima partners, having understood these factors, decided to demonstrate a sustainable and resource-effective model to increase the adaptive capacity of small rural villages to climate change by boosting community resilience in a just and fair way, through improving the population’s knowledge, incentivising more autonomous livelihood strategies, enhancing networks of mutual support and reframing indigenous knowledge to reduce vulnerability and strengthen self-sustainability, especially in the field of food security. The model developed to help small rural settlements in their climate adaptation efforts will promote community resilience, raise climate awareness, improve the self-sufficiency of residents in food security, strengthen their livelihood strategies and long-term health. By developing a widely adoptable model, LIFE Co-Clima also aims to raise awareness on the need to take into account the aspects of small rural settlements in the shaping of climate adaptation policies and the development of adaptation too.
