About the project
For local communities to take part in climate action, they need to be well informed and aware of the impacts climate change may have on their towns and cities.
The AGORA project aims to involve local communities in climate action in a meaningful and effective way, speeding up and scaling up adaptation to build a climate-resilient Europe. To do this, “agoras” will be set up in four pilots: Rome (Italy), Aragon (Spain), Dresden (Germany) and Malmö (Sweden). These regions will host a series of participatory workshops to identify the main climate vulnerabilities and co-design solutions that improve adaptive capacity in a fair and inclusive way. The workshops will bring together citizens, civil society organisations, the scientific community, policymakers and the private sector.
Alongside the pilot regions, the project also involves follower regions, which will be kept up to date on our activities and on the progress and results we achieve throughout the project. In this way, they will learn from our experience and be able to replicate similar actions locally to promote climate change adaptation across Europe.
AGORA also seeks to tackle climate change disinformation by designing tools and materials that help the public deal with disinformation campaigns spread through different channels.
Project objectives
The AGORA project has two main goals:
(1) To encourage and support the active involvement of a wide range of stakeholders (citizens, civil society organisations, the scientific community, policymakers and entrepreneurs) at every stage of climate change adaptation, in support of the EU Mission on Adaptation to Climate Change. To this end, “agoras” will be set up in four pilots: Rome (Italy), Aragon (Spain), Dresden (Germany) and Malmö (Sweden). These regions will host a series of participatory workshops to identify the main climate vulnerabilities and co-design solutions that improve adaptive capacity in a fair and inclusive way.
(2) To fight climate change disinformation campaigns. We will develop a digital academy offering the public a range of resources and educational materials to help them get better at spotting false information. We also plan to develop a mobile app with the same purpose, in a more interactive, trivia-style game format. This way, people will be able to test their knowledge of climate change and show they can debunk hoaxes on the subject.
The role of Ibercivis
Ibercivis coordinates all the activities carried out in the Aragon pilot. These include participatory workshops to identify climate vulnerabilities in the region, assess existing strategies for public participation in climate action and promote the co-creation of soft climate change adaptation solutions. We will also run several events on disinformation and climate change to raise awareness of these issues. The Ibercivis team will also develop the mobile app to fight disinformation and will support the creation of content on disinformation and climate change, which will be available through the digital academy. In addition, during the first year of the project Ibercivis is reviewing other European projects on climate change adaptation and disinformation, to map the state of the art and identify gaps that can be addressed through the project’s activities.
Our activities
– Review of EU-funded projects on climate change adaptation and disinformation. The aim is to gather the resources produced by these projects so they can be replicated or adapted to AGORA’s goals, and to create innovative resources through the project itself.- Coordination of the Aragon pilot, including community building and the design and delivery of a range of activities.- Development of the mobile app.- Support for the creation of new resources and training materials to strengthen the public’s ability to spot disinformation.- Translation into Spanish of the resources and materials produced by the project.- Communication and dissemination of all project activities in Spain
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