The CROSSEU project
The CROSSEU project was launched in response to growing societal needs for effective climate action and stronger socio-economic resilience. As climate change continues to impact our world, it becomes crucial to understand and manage its complex effects.
CROSSEU uses a cross-sectoral approach to address emerging socio-economic risks and improve our grasp of climate change’s economic impacts. The project focuses on developing practical solutions that address these challenges across different regions, particularly in a post-COVID-19 world.
The CROSSEU project is funded under the Horizon Europe initiative. The partners from the United Kingdom are co-funded by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI).
Our mission
The mission of the CROSSEU project is to deepen our understanding and enhance
the management of climate change impacts across key sectors such as health,
finance, energy, agriculture, and much more.
Our strategy spans a variety of environments, including urban and rural areas,
coastlines, and mountains across Europe and the United Kingdom.
We use detailed event-based scenarios to closely examine potential climate effects
in these different areas. By combining accurate climate data with socioeconomic
and environmental insights and collaborating with stakeholders at all levels—from
local communities to European authorities—we develop thorough and adaptable strategies.
This ensures our efforts are specifically designed to meet the needs of those affected
by climate change, enhancing resilience and encouraging proactive actions across Europe.
The Decision Support System
The CROSSEU project aims to provide ready-to-use tools that will be integrated into a science-based Decision Support System (DSS).
It will integrate the existing TEAL visualisation and include an extensive range of climate-driven socioeconomic risks, taking into account various probabilities and their inherent uncertainties. The DSS will account for both direct and indirect impacts, as well as spillover effects across diverse sectors throughout Europe.
By offering a ready-to-use decision support system (DSS) platform and technical recommendations, the project endeavors to inform strategic investment decisions, drive cost-effective adaptation and mitigation strategies, and shape policy responses to climate change.
What do we work on?
Advancing the integration of bio-geophysical
and socio-economic modelling in the climate change
context
We aim to create a framework assessing climate-related, bio-geophysical and socio-economic risks and shaping mitigation and adaptation policy options across Europe and the UK. Its tasks include reviewing research gaps, collecting impact data, building an Integrated Assessment Framework, and establishing a harmonized impact data repository for wider use.
Sectoral Climate Change Hotspots and event-based
Storylines to address socio-economic risks
of climate change
We focus on assessing sectoral and event-based climate change hotspots and socio-economic risks. It includes developing a methodological framework for consistent risk assessment, analyzing climate-related risks in sectoral areas, developing scenario-based storylines, and assessing risks driven by events at the European scale.
CROSSEU Decision Support System
We strive to create a user-friendly Decision Support System (DSS) platform, integrating the existing TEAL visualization tool. It will allow stakeholders to access and display project research outputs, including socio-economic indicators and climate change impacts. The DSS will offer downloadable policy briefs and be co-produced with stakeholders through user requirement collection and specific DSS design within the TEAL tool.
Governance analysis and recommendations for
policies and investments
We focus on analyzing mitigation and adaptation measures in EU and national policy frameworks. It assesses climate change impacts, sectoral policy responses, and social consequences. The aim is to derive recommendations for ambitious climate policy responses.
Societal sharing - Communication, Dissemination
& Exploitation
Enhancing social and business resilience to extreme climate events through targeted communication, dissemination, and exploitation strategies is also a key component of the project. It promotes project visibility, disseminates results, and engages stakeholders through webinars and forums to maximize impact.
Project Management
Responsible for project management and coordination, we also ensure efficient implementation aligned with project objectives. It handles administrative, legal, and financial matters, fosters cooperation between project components, monitors scientific quality, optimizes impacts, and implements the Risk Management Plan.
The Case studies
The CROSSEU project will work on 8 case studies based on event-based storylines (STLs) that address various climate and socio-economic contexts within the EU and the UK. These case studies focus on four key climate hazard categories: storms, heatwaves, droughts, and snow.
Discover our case studies