The newly launched MOUNTADAPT project, co-funded by Horizon Europe, is set to enhance healthcare resilience against climate change impacts in Europe’s mountain regions.
This initiative will work over three years focussing on:
- Reducing the direct and indirect effects of climate change on people’s health, safety, and well-being
- Strengthening health systems’ response to climate change to protect public health.
MOUNTADAPT will implement climate adaptation strategies across seven health systems in Europe. Four demonstration sites will pilot the solutions identified within the project, while three replication sites will implement some of the solutions developed outside mountain regions.
The project’s objectives include:
- Developing predictive models on the health impacts of climate change in mountain areas
- Creating and testing solutions to improve healthcare response during extreme events
- Training healthcare professionals to increase their capacity to prevent, prepare, detect and respond to climate change threats to health
- Engaging and raising awareness among communities about climate resilience
- Creating guidelines to help health systems adapt and replicate the solutions developed, in and beyond mountain areas.
This collaborative effort brings together 27 partners, including healthcare providers, public authorities, researchers, and NGOs, each contributing specialised expertise to the project.
HCWH Europe, as the communications partner, will lead communication and dissemination activities. It will coordinate the dissemination of MOUNTADAPT’s findings, updates, and outcomes with healthcare facilities, health systems, policymakers, and the wider community while raising awareness about the importance of healthcare climate adaptation.
For more information on the project and its goals, visit the official website: https://mountadapt.eu.
Co-funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or European Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency (CINEA). Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.