GENESIS

Name: GENESIS – Geologically Enhanced NaturE-based Solutions for climate change resiliency of critical water InfraStructure
Program: Horizon Europe
Budget: EUR 9 528 926.75
Duration: 48 months

The GENESIS project will bring to the table innovative Nature based Solutions (NbS), including dry gallery and underground dike-impounded dam systems conceived in Macaronesia. Macaronesian NbS combined with state-of-the art NbS, such as rainwater harvesting, wetland restoration, and ecosystem-based approaches, will allow advances in a multiple nature-based approach, creating synergistic effects to be investigated. By understanding this non-linear interaction, there will be new strategies making adaptation management policies to resilience-building against impacts of climate change on water resources and critical water infrastructure. Macaronesian NbS are conceived under extreme climate change impacted systems and represent cases of success in practice that deserve to be investigated and forward developed to future threats derived from climate change impacts in EU mainland.

GENESIS will co-develop test and investigate performance of nine innovative and large-scale NbSs demonstrators across the bioregion of Macaronesia – on the islands of La Palma, Gran Canaria, El Hierro (Canary Islands), Faial (Azores), Madeira, Santiago (Cape Verde) – that will help to better understand how nature can be harnessed to combat climate change impacts in water critical infrastructure.

Throughout the project, the capacity for underground reservoir storage of fresh water will be expanded to more than 50 hm3 per year across the Macaronesia region, ensuring a sustainable water supply for irrigation. In total, approximately 35,000 residents will directly benefit from the provision of fresh water through the GENESIS project.

LPRC leads WP6 – Dissemination and Outreach, implementing tasks on communication, dissemination, clustering and exploitation of project results. LPRC also contributes to tasks of network mapping, elaboration of guidelines on recommendations on contribution insights and lessons learned, digital twin platform and ESG response plan, among others.

LPRC Contact: Emese Karácsonyi (ekaracsonyi_at_lapalmacentre.eu) or Emma Medina Sanchez (emma.medina_at_lapalmacentre.eu).
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