Communication

RETURN: an Extended Partnership for Climate Change Resilience

The extended partnership Return – Multi-Risk sciEnce for resilienT commUnities undeR a changiNg climate promotes scientific research aimed at improving the understanding of environmental, natural, and anthropogenic risks and the relationships between human activities and their environmental impacts. It also seeks to enhance risk forecasting techniques, prevention and mitigation of their effects on the environment, and the adaptive capacity of systems.

Activities within the Return partnership, funded under the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR) and Next Generation EU, contribute to the development of a research-to-innovation value chain — from advanced research to the technological development of products and services — in line with the priorities of the European research agenda and the National Research Plan.

What Zadig Does

Zadig collaborates within the partnership by carrying out communication activities connected to Spoke 1, coordinated by the Politecnico di Milano with the support of the University of Padua, dedicated to the topic of water. In this context, Zadig produces high-impact communication outputs, including site content updates, videos, fact sheets, long-form texts, and informational brochures.

PROJECT STATUS

Ongoing

CLIENT

Politecnico di MIlano

PROJECT LEADS

Luca Carra

The Return partnership’s activities are structured around eight thematic Spokes:

Four vertical Spokes focused on understanding processes and improving the assessment of natural and anthropogenic risks: 1) Water; 2) Ground Instabilities; 3) Earthquakes and Volcanoes; 4) Environmental Degradation.
Three transversal Spokes dedicated to developing and exploiting models able to assess and predict present and future impacts of environmental, natural, and anthropogenic events: 1) Urban and Metropolitan Settlements; 2) Multi-Risk Resilience of Critical Infrastructures; 3) Resilient Communities: social, economic, legal, and cultural dimensions.
One diagonal Spoke focused on defining innovative methodologies for forecasting climate-related variables — meteorological, hydrological, and marine — aimed at risk evaluation, mitigation, and adaptation.

Spoke 1 (“Water”), to which Zadig contributes, is dedicated to developing actions to better forecast and address water-related risks such as floods, droughts, and coastal inundation.

For this purpose, the Spoke brings together around 200 researchers from various universities and research centers engaged primarily in improving the spatial and temporal identification of key risk factors and enhancing risk predictability over short and long time scales.