Tools and Guidelines
CLIMAS project offers an innovative climate adaptation Toolbox, the Climate change Citizens Engagement Toolbox, co-designed with stakeholders adopting a value-based approach, design thinking methods and inclusivity at heart. The ambition of the CLIMAS project is to support a transformation to climate resilience by offering an innovative problem-oriented climate adaptation toolbox, co-designed together with stakeholders by applying a value-based approach, design thinking methods and citizen science mechanisms. The CLIMAS Toolbox for Climate Assemblies design process has been developed following a structured design-thinking methodology.
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The Toolbox will be fully available in June 2025.
1. A Citizen-collaborative future scenario building tool
To involve citizens in generating views of the future, gradually converging towards concrete descriptions of how to realise them, who shall be involved and what actions shall be taken to maximise the benefits.
2. Methodological Guidelines and Manual
For setting up and facilitating Climate Assemblies, also addressing the organisational aspects pre, during and after the deliberation process. It includes tips to engage local institutions, budgeting, selection of venues, training for facilitators, and much more.
3. A Citizen Science tool for deliberation processes
To understand why, how and when to apply a Citizen Science in Climate Assemblies. This tool can be used for the initial identification of local issues, as a reality-check during the informative phase, enhancing knowledge uptake through bottom-up mechanisms, and for the monitoring of measures implemented after the deliberation.
4. A scenario prioritisation tool based on citizen and expert values: which helps quickly weighting pros and cons of a selection of possible future scenarios, where different opinions need to be considered.
5. The Climate Assembly follow-up tool: for the systematic monitoring of outcomes and to dynamically keep up-to-date the adaptation plans.
6. The Knowledge and evidence based support tool: a user-friendly tool to select relevant topics and set-up a Climate Assembly agenda.
7. The Multilingual Climate Assembly Portal: where users can explore existing participatory platforms and collect information to better navigate the Climate Assembly context and purposes.
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