NATURED brings together 12 partners and 3 associate partners from 9 ADRION region countries, including regional and local policy responsible authorities, supported by development agencies and higher education and research institutions to work on development and implementation of Nature-based Solution (NbS) in  the ADRION region facing climate change crisis. It seeks to promote a just, safe, inclusive and placed-based resilience approach, anchored in a series of interlinked activities. 

To enable policymakers to prevent the effects of climate change on different zones of urban areas,
especially of flash floods and heat urban islands, by adopting Nature-based Solutions of adaptation which the most vulnerable groups.

LP: Unione della Romagna Faentina (Italy)
PP2: Consortium for coordination of Research Activities concerning the Venice Lagoon system – CORILA (Italy)
PP3: Regional Development Agency of Northern Primorska L.t.d. Nova Gorica (Slovenia)
PP4: Public institution RERA S.D. for coordination and development of Split-Dalmatia County – (Croatia)
PP5: Region of Thessaly (Greece)
PP6: International University of Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
PP7: Regional Agency for Socio – Economic Development – Banat Ltd (Serbia)
PP8: Regional Development Agency South (Serbia)
PP9: Old Royal Capital Cetinje (Montenegro)
PP10: Municipality of Tirana (Albania)
PP11: Municipality of Gostivar (North Macedonia)
PP12: City of Banja Luka (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

• To inform and train policymakers, civil servants, professionals, and groups of citizens on the complex interactions between climate and the city (composition, structure), as evidence-based knowledge for decisions, actions, and change of behaviors.
• To build a climate vulnerability/hazards characterization of the different zones of the cities by collecting open-source data, national and regional meteorological services, observatories, and any other reliable source.
• To define action plans for implementing NbS though the engagement of citizens and stakeholders (supported by experts), to improve the interaction between climate and cities, and hence reduce the risks for people, infrastructures and structures.
• To review the public work plans, approved or under preparation in the cities concerned, against criteria prioritizing Nature-based Solutions, instead of grey infrastructures, to enhance resilience to climate change.