11. November 2025 | News
On 9 October 2025, RINA took part in the Sustainable Places 2025 Conference in Milan, one of Europe’s key events dedicated to innovation in sustainability, climate resilience, and the built environment. During the workshop “From risk to resilience: Multi-hazard strategies for communities to the built environment,” organised and facilitated by IES, MULTICLIMACT was presented by the RINA team.
by Celina Solari (RINA-C)
The workshop gathered five Horizon Europe projects (MINORITY REPORT, MULTICARE, MULTICLIMACT, CLIMRES, RETIME) working at the intersection of digital innovation, design strategies, and community-centred resilience. Structured as a highly interactive session, the event aimed to explore how different solutions—digital twins, retrofit technologies, co-creation methods, hazard alert systems, and decision-making frameworks—can be aligned to support multi-hazard resilience across buildings, neighbourhoods, and urban territories.
Throughout the session, participants engaged in collaborative exercises including risk storytelling, a World Café–style cluster dialogue, and multi-hazard resilience mapping. Using a shared Miro workspace, projects jointly mapped hazard types (floods, fires, heatwaves, earthquakes) and highlighted where their tools, pilots, and methodologies provide innovative responses. This exercise enabled the identification of overlaps, complementarities, and gaps across technical, social, and systemic approaches.
A central contribution from MULTICLIMACT was the presentation of the CREMA Tool, an advanced assessment framework designed to evaluate both the current (“as-is”) and future (“to-be”) resilience of the built environment. Through CREMA, stakeholders can identify vulnerabilities, compare adaptation strategies, and support informed decision-making across scales, from individual buildings to regional systems.
The workshop revealed several shared patterns across participating teams. All emphasised the importance of integrated, data-driven resilience pathways combining digital sensing, design innovation, adaptive governance, and community engagement. Cross-team analyses highlighted the need for continuous feedback loops, transparent data use, and multi-hazard approaches capable of scaling across different risks. At the same time, each team contributed distinct insights, from evidence-based retrofit cycles to layered digital–social ecosystems and governance innovations rooted in ethics and transparency.
MULTICLIMACT’s participation strengthened dialogue across Horizon Europe projects and reinforced the role of climate adaptation pathways as a bridge between technological innovation and community empowerment. By linking CREMA’s multi-hazard assessment capabilities with broader European efforts, the project contributed to shaping a more coherent, systemic vision for resilience in the built environment.
As shared during the workshop, “integrated resilience is not just a technical challenge, but a dynamic, community-embedded process that evolves through continuous learning and collaboration.” MULTICLIMACT’s contributions were widely recognised as an important element of this collective effort, supporting Europe’s transition toward safer, adaptive, and future-ready places.
About MULTICLIMACT:
MULTICLIMACT is an EU-funded project aimed at safeguarding Europe’s built environment against the increasing threats of natural and climatic hazards. By uniting 25 leading European organisations, MULTICLIMACT aims to enhance resilience, sustainability, and safety for communities across the continent. Through innovative strategies, including a toolkit of 20 reliable methods and digital solutions, the project targets the urgent need for adaptive measures against floods, earthquakes, extreme weather conditions and heatwaves. Tested across four pilot sites with diverse climatic conditions, MULTICLIMACT embodies a shared vision for a safer, more resilient future, focusing on actions to reduce the impact of climate change on the built environment. For more information, please visit www.multiclimact.eu
MULTICLIMACT is a Horizon Europe project supported by the European Commission under grant agreement No 101123538. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.
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