RETURN

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Acronym: RETURN  Multi- Risk sciEnce for resilienT commUnities underR a changiNg climate

Call: Piano Nazionale di Ripresa e Resilienza (PNRR), Missione 4 “Istruzione e Ricerca” – Componente 2 “Dalla ricerca all’impresa”, Investimento 1.3 “Partenariati allargati estesi a università, centri di ricerca, imprese e finanziamento progetti di ricerca di base ” – Finanziato dall’Unione Europea NextGenerationEU

Project n°: PE_00000005

CUP: C93C22005160002

Duration: 01/09/2022 – 28/02/2026

Coordinator: Università degli studi di Napoli Federico II

HUB: Multi- Risk sciEnce for resilienT commUnities undeR a changiNg climate - (RETURN)

Total funding: € 120.763.679,31

Awarded grant: € 115.099.876,40

UNIPD Budget : € 5.697.605,53

TESAF Budget: € 1.333.685,53

Spoke Leader: Politecnico di Milano

Description: Return is an extended partnership aimed at strengthening research supply chains on environmental, natural, and anthropogenic risks at the national level and promoting their participation in strategic European and global value chains. By enhancing fundamental knowledge and focusing on the application and exploitation of technology, Return contributes to strengthening key competencies, technology and knowledge transfer, as well as Italian governance in disaster risk management, involving public administrations, stakeholders, and private enterprises.

TESAF role: Affiliated partner involved in Spoke 1 VS1 Water 
Scientific Responsible Prof. Marco Borga

Main challenges:

  • dynamic impact scenarios, to overcome the dichotomy between planning scenarios and current flood prediction systems towards a concept of impact-based scenario, seamless deterministic probabilistic prediction from the real-time to the long-term climatic scales;
  • effective real-time decision making with uncertain forecasts, to transform probability measures of flooding into context-aware risk mitigation actions;
  • Drought risk under environmental and climatic changes;
  • Coastal flooding and beach erosion under environmental and climatic changes;
  • Integration towards a Digital Twin, an integrated architecture based on open standards and specifications (e.g. FIWARE open source components and data models), to be validated with respect to water-related risk mitigation and community resilience strategies under climate change scenarios

UNIPD Link: https://www.unipd.it/return