The main goal of the ARCADIA project is to mobilise 8 European regions and communities – from Italy, Croatia, Austria, Denmark, Sweden, Bulgaria, Romania and Slovenia – to accelerate nature-based solutions (NBS) adoption and assist them in accessing up-to-date, evidence-based actionable knowledge, guidance, knowledge-intense tools and services, mutual learning and networking opportunities.
The ARCADIA project has the following general objectives:
- Co-design regional strategies to accelerate transformative adaptation, building upon and mainstreaming innovative, actionable NBS with demonstrated feasibility, effectiveness and social value
- Assist and empower communities, public administrations and businesses
- Stimulate collaborative knowledge building and transfer, developing capacities and capabilities
- Promote coherence and exploit synergies, value and production chains, and public and private spheres of business innovation
- Advance the EU research and innovation agenda on NBS and EU Mission Adaptation