MOSAIC 
Managing prOtective foreSt fAcIng clImate Change compound events
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Forests provide essential ecosystem services that support human well-being and play a crucial role in the mitigation of climate change. However, their health and stability are also particularly affected by recurrent climate-related disasters. Therefore, MOSAIC focuses on hazard-resilient and sustainable protective forest management, which is essential for managing climate-related risks. In order to support Alpine climate action plans, the project partners aim to collect, harmonise and share data on Alpine climate-related disasters and trends. They strive to raise awareness among foresters, risk managers, decision makers and the public through an Alpine network of forest living labs.

Factsheet

  • 2021 – 2027
  • Climate resilient and green Alpine region
  • SO 1.1 - Promoting climate change adaptation and disaster risk prevention, resilience, taking into account eco-system based approaches
    • AG8 Risk governance
  • 11/2022
  • 10/2025
  • 2.710.832 EUR
  • 1.758.624 EUR

Description

Climate change (CC) is undeniably responsible for the increase in climate-related disasters affecting Alpine communities. These phenomena are often the result of compound events, a combination of multiple climate-related hazards that contribute to socio-ecological risks. One of the key drivers of the increased vulnerability are changes in forest ecosystems.
Forests provide essential ecosystem services that support human well-being and play a critical role in the mitigation of CC, but their health and stability are also threatened by CC.
Therefore, MOSAIC focuses on hazard-resilient and sustainable protective forest management coping with climate changes’ multiple dimensions, which is essential for managing climate-related risks. In order to support regional and Alpine climate action plans, the project aims to collect, harmonize and share data, models on Alpine climate-related disasters and trends. The project partners strive to raise awareness among foresters, risk managers, decision makers and the public through an Alpine network of forest living labs.
MOSAIC is an action-research project that relies on project partners recognized for their applied research activities and involvement in the science-decision-action triptych.
Project main activities
MOSAIC is structured in 3 distinct work packages:
1-DOJO: Data mining and prOJection of climate change effects on the Alpine Space fOrests.
2-NAZCA: NaturAl haZards modelling platform for analysing climate change Compound events on AS protective forests.
3-FORCE: Forest labs fOr Raising awareness on resilienCe of protectivE forest coping with climate change adaptation.

  • MOSAIC will provide:
    -Comprehensive stocktaking and assessment of spatially explicit past and projected climate (2050-2100 according to IPCC scenarios) and climate-related disaster data for the Alpine Space, made accessible via a webGIS atlas.
    -A platform offering natural hazard and risk models upgraded for integrating the consequences of climate change on Alpine Space forests and on their ability to efficiently protect against natural hazards.
    -Provision of data, experience and knowledge to support the definition of a Joint Alpine scheme for implementing an integrated and adaptive management of Alpine Space forests with protective functions that are coping with climate change impacts.

Partners

National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and the Environment (Lead partner)
  • Lead partner
  • France
  • Rhône-Alpes (FRK2)
  • Saint Martin d'Hères
French National Forest Service
  • France
  • Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur (FRL0)
  • Gap
University of Torino
  • Italy
  • Piemonte (ITC1)
  • Torino
University of Padova
  • Italy
  • Veneto (ITH3)
  • PADOVA
Veneto Region
  • Italy
  • Veneto (ITH3)
  • Venezia
Federal Research and Training Centre for Forests, Natural Hazards and Landscape Austria
  • Austria
  • Wien (AT13)
  • Wien
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
  • Austria
  • Niederösterreich (AT12)
  • Laxenburg
University of Ljubljana
  • Slovenia
  • Zahodna Slovenija (SI04)
  • Ljubljana
Slovenia Forest Service
  • Slovenia
  • Zahodna Slovenija (SI04)
  • Ljubljana
Bern University of Applied Sciences / HAFL
  • Switzerland
  • Espace Mittelland (CH02)
  • Zollikofen
Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
  • Switzerland
  • Ostschweiz (CH05)
  • Davos
University of Göttingen
  • Germany
  • Schwaben (DE27)
  • Göttingen
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  • 44.56785156.089946809722225
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  • 45.407717211.8734455
  • 45.437190812.3345898
  • 48.178268416.302980305239764
  • 48.067791116.35761591656314
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Outcomes


  • The first Alpine Climate Change webGIS atlas

     

  • NAZCAlp : NaturAl haZards Calibrated model platform for Analyzing impatcs of CC compound effects on AS protective forests.

     

  • Catalogue of illustrated fact sheets for supporting integrated and adaptive forest management of Alpine forests with protective functions in climate action plans

     

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Project news

The MOSAIC Kick-off Meeting

25.04.2023
The MOSAIC Kick-off Meeting has been held in Innsbruck - from 19-20 January 2023.This first hybrid meeting has bring together the 12 project partners.The partnership has discussed about the workplan, how to reach project outputs, exchange information and knowledge related to CC compound effects.

First half-yearly Project Management Meeting

25.04.2023
The first half-yearly Project Management Meeting will take place in the office of the partner IIASA, (Laxenburg-Austria) 23-25 May

Workshop "SHORT FOREST-TIMBER VALUE CHAINS IN TIMES OF CLIMATE AND GEO-POLITICAL CRISES"

25.04.2023
The EUSALP Task Force Team on Multifunctional Forestry and Sustainable Use of Timber (TF MFSUT) has organized the workshop "SHORT FOREST-TIMBER VALUE CHAINS IN TIMES OF CLIMATE AND GEO-POLITICAL CRISES" November 23rd 2022, in the framework of the EUSALP Annual Forum in Trento.

EUSALP

25.04.2023

The Slovenian Forest Institute has organized, February 14th 2023, a workshop for Slovenian foresters about protective forests in Slovenia.

25.04.2023
The Slovenian Forest Institute has organized, February 14th 2023, a workshop for Slovenian foresters about protective forests in Slovenia.