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HEStaff exchange2023–2026

ReCharged · Climate-aware Resilience for Sustainable Critical and interdependent Infrastructure Systems enhanced by emerging Digital Technologies

Horizon Europe — Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Duration
2023-01-01 → 2026-12-31
EU contribution
€1,117,800
Participants
14
Scheme
HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-SE

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Results in brief

Climate-aware Resilience for Sustainable Critical and interdependent Infrastructure Systems enhanced by emerging Digital Technologies

The performance of interdependent Transport and Energy systems, Lifelines and Assets (iTESLA) is increasingly challenged by natural hazards intensified by climate change. European natural and built ecosystems have been affected by flash floods, medicanes, wildfires, and cascading events such as landslides and debris flows. These hazards have significantly disrupted transport and energy networks and threatened community safety worldwide. For example, the mid-July 2021 floods in West Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, and the UK caused over 220 fatalities and €46bn in losses, while the collapse of Italy’s Polcevera Viaduct in 2018 and recurrent wildfires and severe weather in Greece and Madeira further illustrate these challenges. Given that infrastructure contributes up to 70% of global GHG emissions, making iTESLA resilient is essential for achieving EU emission targets and supporting over 12 million European jobs. The ReCharged project aims to enhance iTESLA management by delivering a validated framework and visualization platform that improves decision making for infrastructure managers, in line with the EU Strategic Agenda priorities: protecting citizens, bolstering the economy, and building a sustainable, climate-neutral Europe.

Data: CORDIS, © European Union

Project objective

ReCharged is a transformative project that has the vision to develop a new integrated framework toward a practical visualisation platform in order to optimise and streamline climate resilience and whole-life carbon emission assessments for interdependent Transport and Energy Systems, Lifelines and Assets (iTESLA). To achieve this, ReCharged harnesses the power of digital technologies and data to quantify the functionality and recovery of iTESLA after hazards. This is in response to the lack of methods of assessment and communicable visualisations of consolidated climate resilience and whole-life carbon emission metrics for iTESLA. ReCharged will account for interdependencies that lead to failure propagation in transport and energy systems, to accelerate post-hazard recovery, mitigate losses and societal ramifications due to climate change. In doing so, ReCharged underpins synergies and participatory decision-making to combat siloed thinking in infrastructure management. This project will lead to 50% faster decision-making in iTESLA management, 50% reduction of carbon emissions for the two case studies analysed, create new jobs, and make Europeans fit for the Digital Age. ReCharged is a synergy that combines the exchange of interdisciplinary knowledge and tailored training of staff, through an alliance between leading academic institutions, industrial partners, SMEs, and a research and technology center. All beneficiaries are committed to exploiting and transferring their skills and knowledge, to incentivise data-driven resilience toward climate adaptation and reduce emissions in critical infrastructure. ReCharged will augment researchers’ skills and career perspectives, create a community of practitioners, improve critical infrastructure, and ultimately make people feel safer.

Original text from CORDIS.

Participants

  • GRID ENGINEERS IKE · ATHENSCoordinatorGreece
  • BEIA CONSULT INTERNATIONAL SRL · BucurestiRomania
  • BRUNEL UNIVERSITY LONDON · UXBRIDGEUnited Kingdom
  • EIDGENOESSISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE ZUERICH · ZuerichSwitzerland
  • FUNDACION TECNALIA RESEARCH & INNOVATION · DONOSTIA/SAN SEBASTIANSpain
  • POLITECNICO DI TORINO · TorinoItaly
  • SDM Analytics S.L · ValenciaSpain
  • STICHTING GLOBAL RESILIENT CITIES NETWORK · AmsterdamNetherlands
  • THE EQUATOR COMPANY SA · LISBOAPortugal
  • THE UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM · BirminghamUnited Kingdom
  • UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON · LondonUnited Kingdom
  • UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS · NicosiaCyprus
  • UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA · GainesvilleUnited States
  • UNIVERSITY OF SURREY · GuildfordUnited Kingdom

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Data: CORDIS, © European Union