Location: Municipality of AigaleoDate & Time: 16 December 2025 (Tuesday), 10:00 – 12:00 Demokritos NCSRD is pleased to announce the successful completion of the “Validation & Bridging to Action” workshop as part of the CLIMAAX project, held on December 16, 2025, in the Municipality of Aigaleo. Twelve dedicated local stakeholders Read more…
Building Climate Resilience in Aigaleo: A CLIMAAX Success Story CLIMAAX Success Stories: Aigaleo (Greece) The latest video in the CLIMAAX Success Stories series highlights the experience of the Municipality of Aigaleo in Greece and its approach to strengthening climate resilience at the local level. In the interview, Iason Markantonis from Read more…
Sitia, Crete, is pioneering ways to safeguard its famous extra-virgin olive oil against heat, droughts, and wildfires. In Regions4Climate, Dr. Thanasis Sfetsos (NCSR Demokritos) presented new eco-friendly pest control methods using pheromones to combat the olive fruit fly and plans to make a local olive oil factory carbon neutral with Read more…
Thanasis Sfetsos from the National Centre for Scientific Research “DEMOKRITOS” outlines how the EU-funded Med-IREN project, launched in 2024, is helping Mediterranean regions adapt to climate change by embracing circular economy principles and Nature-based Solutions (NbS). The Mediterranean is highly vulnerable to climate impacts such as droughts, floods, wildfires, and Read more…
Practical Guide for Building Climate-Resilient Health Systems The Practical Guide for Building Climate-Resilient Health Systems has been developed as part of the LIFE RESYSTAL project, which aims to develop resources that increase the climate resilience capacity of the European healthcare sector and related critical infrastructures. The Guide was created with Read more…
EU-funded Med-Iren project promotes innovative solutions BRUSSELS – Seven Mediterranean territories, from Italy to France, from Spain to Greece and Cyprus, are joining forces to make critical infrastructure more resilient to climate change using nature as an ally. The European project Med-Iren (Mediterranean Critical Infrastructure Resilience Engineering with Nature-Based Solutions) Read more…
A catalog of climate change measures developed as part of the HORIZON -NEVERMORE program’s digital tool will be presented. On Thursday, October 31, at 19:00, the Municipality of Sitia will host the 4th meeting of local partners of the HORIZON -NEVERMORE European program in the Municipal Council Hall of Sitia. Read more…
MULTICLIMACT Holds 3rd General Assembly in Ancona, Italy, October 16-17, 2024 The MULTICLIMACT project held its 3rd General Assembly in Ancona, Italy, reviewing progress and planning future climate resilience strategies for the built environment. The MULTICLIMACT project successfully hosted its 3rd General Assembly in Ancona, Italy, on October 16 and Read more…
Authors: Nadia Politi, Diamando Vlachogiannis, and Athanasios Sfetsos We are excited to announce a new paper from our lab members, titled “A Statistical Analysis of Drought and Fire Weather Indicators in the Context of Climate Change: The Case of the Attica Region, Greece”, authored by Nadia Politi, Diamando Vlachogiannis, and Read more…
Authors: Iason Markantonis, Diamando Vlachogiannis, Athanasios Sfetsos & Ioannis Kioutsioukis We are thrilled to announce that our PhD candidate Iasonas Markantonis has published a new paper in with Springer-Verlag GmbH Austria. His work, titled “Atmospheric preconditions investigation of wet-cold compound events in Greece between 1980 and 2004” delves into the Read more…
We are thrilled to announce the commencement of the MOUNTADAPT project, a Horizon Europe 2023 initiative funded by the European Commission. This innovative project is dedicated to developing adaptation solutions aimed at reducing the impact of climate change on health in mountainous regions. Project objectives MOUNTADAPT is a Horizon 2023 Read more…
A workshop was held on March 5th, 2024 at the City Hall of Rafina-Pikermi in Greece as part of the FirEUrisk Horizon Europe project. The workshop was attended by representatives from the municipality, fire department headquarters, relevant stakeholders, and project partners, including NCSR “Demokritos”, AUTH, SGIC, and SC. Dr. Nadia Read more…
We are happy to share the inaugural #ICARIAeu newsletter with you! Since its inception, the #ICARIAeu consortium has organized and participated in several actions. This newsletter will keep you up to speed on our project’s progress, outcomes, and previous and forthcoming activities. What is ICARIA? #ICARIAeu is a project co-funded Read more…
