Mitigation and Adaptation in Resilient Coastal and estUarine integrated unitS – MARCUS

Funder: Project funded under the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP), Mission 4 Component 2 Investment 1.3 – Cascade Call related to the Program “Multi-Risk sciEnce for resilienT commUnities undeR a changiNg climate (RETURN)” funded by the European Union – NextGenerationEU

Award Number: Cascade Call related to the Program “RESearch and innovation on future Telecommunications systems and networks, to make Italy more smart – Spoke 2” PE00000005, CUP D43C22003030002;

Start date: 01/02/2024

End date: 30/06/2025 (18 mesi)

Total NRRP funding for the whole project: 689,337.30€

Total NRRP funding for Unipr: 100.049,25 € 

Objectives

Return (Multi-risk science for resilient communities under a changing climate) – in an extended partnership with the aim to strengthen the research chains on environmental, natural and anthropogenic risks at national level and promote their participation in European and global strategic value chains.

Activities

Four “Vertical Spokes – VS” have been established to gain the understanding of the dealt processes to improve the natural and anthropogenic hazard assessment, also by returning dynamic maps, developing novel and smart methodologies to assess, monitor and forecast quantitative scenarios of the effects, useful for the transversal spoke’s activities focused on the impact and strategies:

• Spoke 1 – VS1: Water 
• Spoke 2 – VS2: Ground instabilities 
• Spoke 3 – VS3: Earthquakes and Volcanoes 
• Spoke 4 – VS4: Environmental Degradation
• Spoke 5 – TS1: Urban and metropolitan settlements 
• Spoke 6 – TS2: Multi-Risk Resilience of Critical Infrastructures 
• Spoke 7 – TS3: Communities’ resilience to risks: social, economic, legal and cultural dimensions
• Spoke 8 – DS: Science underpinning Climate services for risk mitigation and adaptation

The role of the Parma unit within MARCUS will be of an experimental nature, with activities carried out at the Hydraulics and Hydraulic Constructions Laboratory (LIeCI) of the University of Parma, the Coastal Engineering Laboratory (LIC) of the Polytechnic University of Bari, and the laboratory of the Andalusian Inter-University Institute for Earth System Research (IISTA-CEAMA) in Granada, Spain.

• Department of Engineering and Architecture

• Università Politecnica delle Marche
• Politecnico di Bari
• Università degli Studi di Parma
• Università di Catania

• OBJECTIVE 1: to understand the dynamics induced by multiple forcings at a microtidal estuary
• OBJECTIVE 2: to understand the hydrodynamics governing estuarine processes via lab tests
• OBJECTIVE 3: to analyze compound-flooding occurrences via numerical modeling of synchronous forcings, including future projections
• OBJECTIVE 4: to develop adaptation pathways based on Nature-based Solutions (NbS)

https://www.fondazionereturn.it/