PROTECT

PROTECT delivers an integrated, evidence-led pathway to urban heat resilience by fusing high-resolution climate intelligence, hybrid cooling interventions, and operational continuity protocols into a deployment-ready framework across European cities. Front Runners (Trikala, Barcelona, Berlin, Torino, Tallinn) span 12 Areas of Intervention for rigorous demonstration and Followers (Glasgow, Istanbul, Prague) provide future plans for PROTECT solutions’ replication potential. A city-calibrated sensing–modelling–forecasting backbone —Urban Heat Data Cube, downscaled NST/UTCI forecasts, health-linked indices, and Risk Atlas—enables hotspot diagnostics, equityweighted mapping, and early warnings for neighborhoods and critical facilities. PROTECT operationalizes Heat-Resilient Intervention Packages, via CFD/ENVI-met simulations with multi-objective optimization and a maladaptation screener to select green–blue–grey portfolios that maximize cooling, hydrologic retention, and comfort while safeguarding water, glare, and equity; instrumented MRV kits verify real-world performance over ≥2 heat seasons. Risk analytics are translated into heat-day SOPs and playbooks for health, civil protection, utilities, transport, and workforce safety, orchestrated by a hyperlocal EWS and a Digital Resilience Toolkit with geo-targeted alerts and asset-aware guidance (shelters, fountains, shaded routes). Governance, capacity building, and finance is embedded through HRLL-driven co-creation, replication playbooks, and an Adaptation Financing Navigator. The 18 Innovative Solutions (ISs)—incl. VR co-design, nudging to HRCC, EOLiDAR, optimizers, modular NBS, grid/water resilience, heat-safe routing, coupled comfort, risk engines, hyperlocal EWS, Risk Atlas, KPI frameworks, and finance tools—close the innovation-to-deployment gap with interoperable, privacy-preserving, standards-ready tools that reduce thermal risk, protect vulnerable groups, and sustain critical services under escalating extremes.

Consortium

ETHNIKO KENTRO EREVNAS KAI TECHNOLOGIKIS ANAPTYXIS, EL
EREVNITIKO PANEPISTIMIAKO INSTITOUTO SYSTIMATON EPIKOINONION KAI YPOLOGISTON, EL
ETHNIKO ASTEROSKOPEIO ATHINON, EL
POLYTECHNEIO KRITIS, EL
FUNDACIO INSTITUT DE RECERCA EN ENERGIA DE CATALUNYA, ES
FUNDACION CENTRO TECNOLOGICO DE INVESTIGACION MULTISECTORIAL, ES
CETAQUA, CENTRO TECNOLOGICO DEL AGUA, FUNDACION PRIVADA, ES
AIGUES DE BARCELONA, EMPRESA METROPOLITANA DE GESTIO DEL CICLE INTEGRAL DE L’AIGUA SA (affiliated), ES
TALLINNA TEHNIKAÜLIKOOL, EE
TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAT BERLIN, DE
CHARITE – UNIVERSITAETSMEDIZIN BERLIN, DE
USTAV INFORMATIKY AV CR, CZ
AJUNTAMENT DE BARCELONA, ES
SENATSVERWALTUNG FUR MOBILITAT, VERKEHR, KLIMASCHUTZ UND UMWELT, DE
ANAPTYXIAKI ETAIREIA DIMOU TRIKKAION ANAPTYXIAKI ANONYMI ETAIREIA OTA, EL
CITTA’ METROPOLITANA DI TORINO, IT
COMUNE DI RIVOLI, IT
TALLINNA LINN, EE
GLASGOW CITY COUNCIL, UK
Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality, TR
INSTITUT PLANOVANI A ROZVOJE HLAVNIHO MESTA PRAHY, CZ
OPSIS RESEARCH SRL, RO
METEOROLOGIKES KAI PERIVALLONTIKES MELETES KAI EFARMOGES IDIOTIKI KAFALAIOUCHIKI ETAIREIA, EL
AINIGMA TECHNOLOGIES, BE
Mainor Ülemiste AS, EE
R2M SOLUTION SRL, IT
Q-PLAN INTERNATIONAL ADVISORS PC, EL
INNOVATION COMMERCIAL PATHWAYS CLG, IE
ARCADIS ITALIA SRL, IT
RINA CONSULTING SPA, IT
POLIS, BE
BERLIN 21, DE
Technologiestiftung Berlin, DE
SYNETAIRISMOS ERGAZOMENON COMMONSPACE – ARCHITEKTONIKI, ASTIKOS SCHEDIASMOS, CHORIKES STRATIGIKES KAI SYMMETOCHIKOS SCHEDIASMOS, EL