Technology Archives - Climate Innovation Window

Buildings Ecosystem-based approaches

LeafSkin

Vertical gardens are nature-based solutions that provide many benefits in urban areas: increase b...

Heatwaves

QoAir: A blockchain-based system for heatwave management in urban areas

Every summer in big cities are reported death cases, discomforts or sicknesses, especially in eld...

Heatwaves

Buildings

Disaster risk reduction Transport

Really cooling water bodies in cities

Heat waves, increased precipitation and river flooding occur through climate change. These proble...

Heatwaves

EFESTO

We provide a low-cost system for forest monitoring, fire prevention and detection of the cause of...

GREENFIX f³ Fire Free Fibres Blankets

Climate change has caused extreme weather events to be more frequent. In places like Albania, Sou...

Unified Fire Protection Units and System-UFPUS

Knowing that forest fires represent a constant threat to ecological systems, infrastructure, econ...

Wildfire Defense Platform

In Portugal we had another tragedy, the second this year (2017), ending in a 106 death toll due t...

Application Framework with Drone system

ICT System for early warning and monitoring composed by: on site sensors (e.g. along a river); an...

Flood Local Tool – Albania

Flash floods are characterized by the occurrence of their flood peaks within 3-6 hours after the ...

FLUTSCHUTZ Impoundment

To secure dike sections that are at risk of breakage, structures made entirely of sandbags or san...

HAZ-I

A flood is the most common and the most damage inflicting natural disaster. Climate change causes...

Maptionnaire in Albania

In Albania there is scarcity of information and mobilization during Civil Emergencies, mostly flo...

My Flood Risk

In the EU many citizens are at risk of floods from rivers, seas and heavy rainfall. Reliable, sci...

NOAQ Tubewall

Operational flood forecasting system including levee performance

Heavy rainfall and/or high discharges upstream cause rising water levels in rivers and streams. C...

Coastal areas Water management

InfoSequia

Timely and systematic generation of actionable warnings and risk indicators on the severity and e...

Water from Heaven – Hemel(s)water

Water from Heaven contributes to local rain water storage and helps to overcome droughts.

Disaster risk reduction Ecosystem-based approaches

EVACOLD

Treatment of salty waters and brine effluents with a high potential for recovering salts and gene...

Mole: An underground soil moisture sensor linked to the cloud

Soil moisture is an important factor in precision agriculture for enabling flexible and smart irr...

Hydroeconomic DSS tools for drought management

Finding and implementation of optimal operating rules on surface reservoirs and aquifers to effic...

Halophyte Zeolite Wetlands (HZW)

Treatment and reuse of agro-industrial wastewaters for irrigation activities in drought prone reg...

ThirdEye: Flying Sensors to support farmers’ decision making

Farmers are confronted more and more with the consequences of climate change. Water shortages, hi...

IRRINET-IRRIFRAME

Irrigated agriculture is the most relevant water use sector, therefore highlighting the key role ...

Bathymetry measurements with Fishfinders

Use of low-cost devices (fishfinders) to measure bed levels, process the data into bathymetric ma...

Coastal areas Disaster risk reduction

The Portable Natural Biological System

Small waste streams such as roadside/rail toilets, guard posts, house or small neighborhood sewag...

Health Water management

New growing system for food vertical farming

The main specific objective of this innovation lies in recreating, indoor, environmental conditio...

V.E.R.A. project

WATER: Improvement of water efficiency, management, and quality/quantity; CITY SUSTAINABILITY: Im...

FREEWAT

FREEWAT platform helps in increasing resilience to water related hazards, in particular drought, ...

ARIEL, soil moisture retrieval by microwave remote sensing

High-resolution monitoring of soil moisture at the land surface level

RichWater

In recent years a growing concern has been expressed throughout the EU regarding water scarcity a...

SkyDowser

Climate change is un undeniable fact to which we, as mankind, have to find ways to adapt. To a la...

Access to sustainable water by unlimited resources

Already 4 billion people face water scarcity today. Freshwater scarcity is increasing due to grow...

Energy Water management

Useful Wastes: Brine transformation to circular economy

Nowadays, many sectors of the industry need high quality water. For this reason industries (chemi...

Disaster risk reduction Transport

3C for Cities

Urban growth combined with increasing rainfall intensities due to climate change may lead to a ra...

Heavy Precipitation

Transport Water management

URBRAIN

The traditional urban planning and stormwater management can no longer respond to high intensity ...

Heavy Precipitation

WaterView – IR2

Today precipitation is monitored by combining terrestrial systems, weather radars and satellite i...

Heavy Precipitation

Tiny House B.E.S.D.®

Tiny House B.E.S.D.® is a versatile building organism which can be used in extreme conditions, th...

Buildings Disaster risk reduction

SLAMDAM®

SLAMDAM® is a temporary flood defender filled with water. A stable base to fight flooding with wa...

Floating cities with positive impact

Buildings Ecosystem-based approaches Water management

Engineering and built environment Nature-based Services Technology

Polderroof

Heavy rainfall events are occurring more frequent and are becoming more intense due to climate ch...

Buildings Water management

Engineering and built environment Nature-based Services Technology

MobiKat – Support for complex strategic and operative decision-making

Fraunhofer MobiKat has been designed to effectively support preparation and management of large-s...

Governance and social innovations Models and tools Technology

Draining pavement to support transit traffic and displace storm peak

The new BREINCO's draining pavement, which is able to support transit traffic by regular cars, al...

Disaster risk reduction Transport Water management

NoFloods mobile barrier

Quick and reliable solution for protection of people, critical infrastructure and the environment...

Drone+LiDAR for emergency response

Updated, detailed information and data acquisition on the displacement and location of flood defe...

Governance and social innovations Models and tools Technology

Futureproof peat meadow polder

Peat meadow areas have to deal with soil subsidence and high emissions of carbon dioxide, because...

Coastal floods Heavy Precipitation River floods

AdapKIT

Climate Change Adaptation, even when recognized as a priority, is poorly developed and adaptation...

Governance and social innovations Models and tools Technology

Albania Alert -EWS

The Albanian National Center for Forecast and Monitoring of Natural Risks (NCFMNR) is responsible...

Governance and social innovations Models and tools Technology

Paint your city green!

Mature trees will not only bring shadow but evaporation which will reduce temperature and improve...

Disaster Mitigation and Response Information System

This all-in-one solution is designed to cope with all the types of emergencies in focus of the BR...

Governance and social innovations Models and tools Technology

FlooDrought

In the last years, climate change has led to increasing disturbance of the water balance – mainly...

Ecosystem-based approaches Water management

SolarDew

Pollution, climate change and population growth are expected to affect 5 billion people by 2050. ...

Low cost meteorological stations

Meteorological data are very important for an accurate analysis of the exact cause of flood, that...

SAEx–L (Signal of Atmosphere Extreme Locally)

Alerting the population that lives or occasionally is situated in an urban area that is expected ...

Governance and social innovations Models and tools Technology

I-REACT

Society as a whole is increasingly exposed and vulnerable to natural disasters because extreme we...