UNDERPIN will design, co-develop and validate an outcome-oriented monitoring framework that addresses critical gaps in climate adaptation monitoring while fostering a coordinated approach to resilience-building in Europe. |
UNDERPIN will design, co-develop and validate an outcome-oriented monitoring framework that addresses critical gaps in climate adaptation monitoring while fostering a coordinated approach to resilience-building in Europe. |
Welcome to the Resilience Compass - July 2026! |
Welcome to the Resilience Compass - July 2026! |
Welcome to the first UNDERPIN newsletter, known as the Resilience Compass! As climate impacts intensify, Europe urgently needs to know if its adaptation efforts are truly working. UNDERPIN is developing a new MEL framework to measure climate adaptation outcomes. The project combines Earth observation, AI, and citizen science to develop standardised outcome indicators that measure adaptation progress across scales. Our project is a flagship project under the EU Mission on Adaptation to Climate Change. We will be co-designing the framework and a user-friendly dashboard with stakeholders in four pilot regions with the support of nine project partners. Together, we aim for this project to support smarter, more coordinated decisions across Europe in alignment with EU and UN climate reporting standards. 2026 continues to be an exciting year for us, as we draw on diverse data sources to inform the indicator framework, shape policy on adaptation monitoring, and begin our work with four pilot regions, Normandy (France), Cluj Metropolitan Region (Romania), Basque Country (Spain), and City of Košice (Slovakia), basing the framework on their contexts. There will be opportunities to connect with us in the future through events and workshops, trainings, and of course through our online channels, including LinkedIn and YouTube. Let’s join forces towards better measurement of resilience progress! The UNDERPIN Coordination Team |
Welcome to the first UNDERPIN newsletter, known as the Resilience Compass! As climate impacts intensify, Europe urgently needs to know if its adaptation efforts are truly working. UNDERPIN is developing a new MEL framework to measure climate adaptation outcomes. The project combines Earth observation, AI, and citizen science to develop standardised outcome indicators that measure adaptation progress across scales. Our project is a flagship project under the EU Mission on Adaptation to Climate Change. We will be co-designing the framework and a user-friendly dashboard with stakeholders in four pilot regions with the support of nine project partners. Together, we aim for this project to support smarter, more coordinated decisions across Europe in alignment with EU and UN climate reporting standards. 2026 continues to be an exciting year for us, as we draw on diverse data sources to inform the indicator framework, shape policy on adaptation monitoring, and begin our work with four pilot regions, Normandy (France), Cluj Metropolitan Region (Romania), Basque Country (Spain), and City of Košice (Slovakia), basing the framework on their contexts. There will be opportunities to connect with us in the future through events and workshops, trainings, and of course through our online channels, including LinkedIn and YouTube. Let’s join forces towards better measurement of resilience progress! The UNDERPIN Coordination Team |
Explore UNDERPIN: regional updates from our pilots coming soon! |
Explore UNDERPIN: regional updates from our pilots coming soon! |
Explore our new website (underpinclimate.eu), the central online platform for our project, which is now live. The website will feature a refined, practically relevant framework alongside a built-in dashboard that is user-friendly and helps regions, including the four pilots and beyond, to understand and apply outcome indicators for their local context. The four pilot regions testing UNDERPIN's approach will soon be featured so you can find out more about why they joined the project and what they'll be up to in the coming months. |
Explore our new website (underpinclimate.eu), the central online platform for our project, which is now live. The website will feature a refined, practically relevant framework alongside a built-in dashboard that is user-friendly and helps regions, including the four pilots and beyond, to understand and apply outcome indicators for their local context. The four pilot regions testing UNDERPIN's approach will soon be featured so you can find out more about why they joined the project and what they'll be up to in the coming months. |
Collaboration with the Adaptation Community & Beyond |
Collaboration with the Adaptation Community & Beyond |
Lessons from the MEL Clinic at the European Urban Resilience Forum 2026 |
Lessons from the MEL Clinic at the European Urban Resilience Forum 2026 |
At the 2026 European Urban Resilience Forum in Guimarães, Portugal, UNDERPIN co-organised an interactive MEL Clinic with CARDIMED and Pathways2Resilience, bringing together local and regional authorities, practitioners, and MEL experts. Through practical examples, including from Portugal's Central Alentejo Region, the workshop demonstrated how Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) can move beyond reporting to support continuous learning, adaptive governance, and more effective climate adaptation by embedding learning into decision-making and engaging communities. |
At the 2026 European Urban Resilience Forum in Guimarães, Portugal, UNDERPIN co-organised an interactive MEL Clinic with CARDIMED and Pathways2Resilience, bringing together local and regional authorities, practitioners, and MEL experts. Through practical examples, including from Portugal's Central Alentejo Region, the workshop demonstrated how Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) can move beyond reporting to support continuous learning, adaptive governance, and more effective climate adaptation by embedding learning into decision-making and engaging communities. |
UNDERPIN champions 2025-2026 Thematic Working Group on MEL in the EU Adaptation Mission |
UNDERPIN champions 2025-2026 Thematic Working Group on MEL in the EU Adaptation Mission |
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UNDERPIN is actively engaged in the EU Adaptation Mission community, including through the MIP4Adapt Community of Practice and collaboration with other Mission projects. It is currently championing the 2025-2026 Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Thematic Working Group. Represented by Fresh Thoughts Consulting GmbH, the project has convened three meetings so far (December 2025, January and June 2026) to build a shared, evidence-based understanding of climate resilience progress across Europe. The sessions have focused on refining UNDERPIN’s MEL framework for tracking adaptation outcomes across scales, while also exchanging experiences from EU Mission on Adaptation projects on how MEL is being applied in practice, from implementation indicators to longer-term transformative metrics. The most recent workshop (26 June) centred on assessing whether adaptation actions are effectively strengthening resilience, with discussions on meaningful indicators, user-friendly dashboards, and improving the usability of monitoring frameworks for local and regional authorities. Get in touch with us via contact@underpinclimate.eu if you're curious about this work! |
UNDERPIN is actively engaged in the EU Adaptation Mission community, including through the MIP4Adapt Community of Practice and collaboration with other Mission projects. It is currently championing the 2025-2026 Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Thematic Working Group. Represented by Fresh Thoughts Consulting GmbH, the project has convened three meetings so far (December 2025, January and June 2026) to build a shared, evidence-based understanding of climate resilience progress across Europe. The sessions have focused on refining UNDERPIN’s MEL framework for tracking adaptation outcomes across scales, while also exchanging experiences from EU Mission on Adaptation projects on how MEL is being applied in practice, from implementation indicators to longer-term transformative metrics. The most recent workshop (26 June) centred on assessing whether adaptation actions are effectively strengthening resilience, with discussions on meaningful indicators, user-friendly dashboards, and improving the usability of monitoring frameworks for local and regional authorities. Get in touch with us via contact@underpinclimate.eu if you're curious about this work! |
Engaging the scientific community on indicators |
Engaging the scientific community on indicators |
UNDERPIN strengthened its engagement with the scientific and Earth Observation communities through contributions to the European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly and a joint European Space Agency–Joint Research Centre workshop. At EGU, UNDERPIN convened a session on measuring the real impacts of climate adaptation, highlighting the need for outcome-based Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) approaches that go beyond tracking activities to assess effectiveness, and showcasing its framework for adaptation outcome indicators. In parallel, exchanges with the Earth Observation community explored how satellite data, along with socio-economic data and ground-based information can be used to develop robust indicators that better assess whether adaptation actions are reducing vulnerability and building resilience. |
UNDERPIN strengthened its engagement with the scientific and Earth Observation communities through contributions to the European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly and a joint European Space Agency–Joint Research Centre workshop. At EGU, UNDERPIN convened a session on measuring the real impacts of climate adaptation, highlighting the need for outcome-based Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) approaches that go beyond tracking activities to assess effectiveness, and showcasing its framework for adaptation outcome indicators. In parallel, exchanges with the Earth Observation community explored how satellite data, along with socio-economic data and ground-based information can be used to develop robust indicators that better assess whether adaptation actions are reducing vulnerability and building resilience. |
Insights from the last Regional Mission Adaptation Forum in Tallinn. Find us at upcoming Mission events! |
Insights from the last Regional Mission Adaptation Forum in Tallinn. Find us at upcoming Mission events! |
In late 2025, UNDERPIN participated in the Baltic Region Forum under the EU Mission on Adaptation to Climate Change, represented by Fresh Thoughts Consulting. The discussions reinforced several key priorities shaping the project’s work: improving how adaptation progress and effectiveness are measured to better respond to climate risks; co-developing solutions with local and regional actors through the four use-case regions to ensure the outcome indicator framework reflects real needs and contexts; and supporting regions facing compounding climate and geopolitical pressures with clearer, more usable monitoring and visualisation tools. The Forum also highlighted the importance of stronger science communication, with UNDERPIN continuing to translate complex evidence into accessible formats such as visuals, stories, and stakeholder engagement activities for diverse audiences across Europe. We will be joining future Mission Forum events in the fall of 2026, so look out for us! |
In late 2025, UNDERPIN participated in the Baltic Region Forum under the EU Mission on Adaptation to Climate Change, represented by Fresh Thoughts Consulting. The discussions reinforced several key priorities shaping the project’s work: improving how adaptation progress and effectiveness are measured to better respond to climate risks; co-developing solutions with local and regional actors through the four use-case regions to ensure the outcome indicator framework reflects real needs and contexts; and supporting regions facing compounding climate and geopolitical pressures with clearer, more usable monitoring and visualisation tools. The Forum also highlighted the importance of stronger science communication, with UNDERPIN continuing to translate complex evidence into accessible formats such as visuals, stories, and stakeholder engagement activities for diverse audiences across Europe. We will be joining future Mission Forum events in the fall of 2026, so look out for us! |
Events, Resources & Opportunities |
Events, Resources & Opportunities |
Upcoming Meetings & Events September 2026 | UNDERPIN General Assembly | Vienna UNDERPIN General Assembly 2026 Recent Events 6 May 2026 | EGU26 | Vienna Measuring climate adaptation: from processes and outputs to outcomes and impacts 12 May 2026 | CBA20 | Manila, Philippines Who Decides What Counts and Matters in Locally Led Adaptation? Indicators, Emerging Technologies, and Local Knowledge 17 June 2026 | EURESFO 2026 | Guimarães The MEL Clinic: Diagnosing and strengthening regional and local learning systems 25 June 2026 | ESA/ JRC Joint Workshop | Oxford, United Kingdom ESA / JRC Joint Workshop on Earth Observation & the Global Goal on Adaptation (GGA) 26 June 2026 | Thematic Working Group on MEL | Online Assessing adaptation action outcomes: From theory to practice |
Upcoming Meetings & Events September 2026 | UNDERPIN General Assembly | Vienna UNDERPIN General Assembly 2026 Recent Events 6 May 2026 | EGU26 | Vienna Measuring climate adaptation: from processes and outputs to outcomes and impacts 12 May 2026 | CBA20 | Manila, Philippines Who Decides What Counts and Matters in Locally Led Adaptation? Indicators, Emerging Technologies, and Local Knowledge 17 June 2026 | EURESFO 2026 | Guimarães The MEL Clinic: Diagnosing and strengthening regional and local learning systems 25 June 2026 | ESA/ JRC Joint Workshop | Oxford, United Kingdom ESA / JRC Joint Workshop on Earth Observation & the Global Goal on Adaptation (GGA) 26 June 2026 | Thematic Working Group on MEL | Online Assessing adaptation action outcomes: From theory to practice |
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