Many regions struggle to streamline policy execution for climate change mitigation and adaptation.

Among others, this is due to challenges with:

• Identifying and prioritising strategic actions
• Insufficient human and financial resources to implement practical measures
• Recognising and engaging the private sector in strategic actions

There’s also a pressing need for better dialogue between researchers, policymakers, businesses, and civil society. This ensures policies are scientifically sound and practically implementable.

That’s why our policy events are designed to foster meaningful dialogue and collaboration between these groups. By bringing people together, we facilitate cross-fertilisation of knowledge and achieve a broader, more inclusive understanding of the challenges.

These exchanges facilitate mutual learning and cross-fertilisation between policy and science actors. We organise hybrid events at local, national and regional level, often within the framework of key gatherings like EU Sustainable Energy Week, COP and others.​

Policy-Science Dialogues bring people together to:

• Discuss transversal themes identified by climate change researchers, as well as needs, gaps, challenges and opportunities
• Develop transferability frameworks to support upscaling of solutions and tools
• Establish a basis for social and institutional cross-sectoral contracts to operationalise climate resilience research and exploit results that outlive the ongoing projects
• Network and establish participatory processes at different levels

Our Policy Roundtables unite policymakers, institutional influences and other forms of governance with influence at regional, national and European levels. ​The aim is to understand good practices and identify bottlenecks to implementation when integrating climate research and data into policy development. ​

These hybrid events also consolidate, activate and strengthen the MAIA Climate Action Community, improving transfer of research results and developing dialogue and exchange among members.​

These participatory events invite society representatives to discuss climate policy design and implementation. The aim is to strengthen interactions between policymakers and civil society.

We’ll also work to identify gaps and needs in capacity building so we can provide training resources and easily accessible, reliable information. This will allow us to establish a common knowledge ground for participating society representatives, making for more fruitful discussions.