Now the family is complete: the selection committee has announced the 37 newly selected European Regions which will be funded and supported in performing regional Climate Risk Assessments through the CLIMAAX project. As a result of the two open calls, the project will ensure financial and technical support to 69 regions which will receive, together, more than EUR 12 million from the EU Mission on Adaptation to Climate Change.
From the 263 proposals submitted from the 1st of July to 15th of October 2024, 29 were deemed non-eligible while the in/out scope screening further shrank the evaluable applications to 185. The residual proposals have been evaluated according to the criteria of Relevance, Impact and Implementation. Each criterion scores from 0 to 5 points. Unfortunately, 87 proposals did not meet the overall minimum threshold of 11.5 points (as the sum of the three criteria scores) or did not reach the minimum for each individual criterion (3 points). The 98 applications that scored above the threshold received additional points to prioritize regions or communities with high vulnerability and low adaptive capacity to climate change. This aspect was evaluated following the regional composed Vulnerability Index produced by the JRC Disaster Risk Management Knowledge Centre.
The final list of selected recipients consists of 37 applications; they will receive, together, EUR 6.634.703,05. This brings the total amount for both calls to EUR 12.073.594,36. The EU grant contribution that each applicant may receive is based on a lump sum scheme applying to a Country Correction Coefficient (CCC) that considers the country in which the third party is located. The maximum amount of financial support ranges between EUR 115.227 and EUR 300.000.
From the regions selected for the second Open Call, Albania, Bulgaria, Italy, Portugal, Sweden and Türkiye count the largest number of selected proposals (3), followed by Croatia, France, Greece, Ireland, Slovakia, Spain (2). One selected proposal came from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cyprus, Finland, Germany, Montenegro, Slovenia and Ukraine.
