From 6–7 October, our faculty hosted the Horizon Europe consortium meeting of 32 AdaptationHubs partners, including representatives of National Adaptation Hubs. The meeting offered an important opportunity to review progress, exchange experience and explore how climate adaptation knowledge can be translated into implementation. Over two intensive days, partners discussed how to strengthen climate resilience policies and practices across Europe by overcoming fragmentation between national, regional and local levels, between policy and practice, and between adaptation actors and sources of finance.
Key message: adaptation needs more than knowledge — it requires strong connections, coordination, political support and clear pathways to action. National Adaptation Hubs can serve as knowledge brokers and connectors, linking policymakers, experts, finance and local initiatives, sharing effective solutions and building capacity. This role becomes particularly important for complex challenges such as nature-based solutions, flooding, heat, water scarcity and resilient infrastructure. The Czech experience (https://adapthub.cz/en), together with contributions from REGILIENCE+, Pathways2Resilience and MIP4Adapt, showed that effective Hubs are not simply new platforms: they build trust, connect existing resources and help turn adaptation plans into visible results.
Project website: https://adaptationhubs.eu/
