Communities for Climate Change Action

About this project

<p>The goal of this project is to develop an integration toolkit to support resiliency and citizen engagement in city-communities, empowering them in responding to new climate change challenges with<br> bottom up involvement. To fulfill this goal a workshop which include a specially designed strategic computer game will be developed and applied. Strategy games are currently considered as one of<br> the most effective educational tools in climate change action methods. The proposed game will feature simulations that allow local community to transform their neighborhood into more resilient to<br> the climate change. The game will be adapted to local environmental and spatial conditions and will explore various choices (e.g. pro-adaptative actions) and consequences, as well as stimulate<br> higher motivation for participation in climate change transformation. The projects’ workshop toolkit will integrate best practices collected from communities that are already involved in climate<br> change actions. This knowledge and experience will be incorporated into the process of co-design of the game with highly motivated communities that mitigate of so-called motivational gap. The<br> workshop toolkit besides the game will include collection of methods stimulating motivation for adaptative action in local communities. The pilot project will then be carried out for six communities in Warsaw diversified in relation to exposure to climate change, urban structure and socioeconomic factors. As an outcome of the gaming workshop each tested community will be engaged in the<br> planning of an adaptation design in their neighborhood. Developed the workshop method including the game will be available in an open access toolkit offered to communities for engaging citizens in co-producing changes within their local communities also in other cities in the world. The outcome will be computer game encourage social engagement, workshop toolkit with developed methods of public engagement and scientific publications.<br> &nbsp;</p>

Bilateral cooperation results

Cooperation with Norwegian partners is, above all, an opportunity for better mutual learning. At CoAdapt, we represented different fields of knowledge and had diverse experiences, yet we understood each other very well. This resulted in a very effective proactive synergy, meaning the integrated achievement of common goals in the project through mutual support and the use of complementary resources, skills, and abilities. Norwegian partners represent more theoretical fields, while Polish partners are primarily practitioners implementing pro-adaptive nature-based solutions (NBS). This cooperation had a complementary dimension, combining theoretical knowledge with practical experience, which allowed for a more comprehensive approach to the issue of adaptation to climate change. Bilateral cooperation led to the acceptance of a research proposal by the funding organization DUT - Driving Urban Transitions, which organizes transformational co-production laboratories to integrate Nature-Based Solutions in Poland, Spain, Sweden, and Norway. Participating institutions include WNRI and SGGW. The second project is the expansion of CoAdapt with a researcher from Ukraine in the CoAdapt+UA project.

Project partners

• Oslo Metropolitan University Donor project partner· Norway
• Western Norway Research Institute Donor project partner· Norway
• University of Warsaw Project partner· Poland