NeuroClima establishes a nervous system to monitor behavioural adaptation to climate change and assess social tipping dynamics at scale, which is crucial for systemic change towards climate resilience. This system will promptly and effectively monitor critical components, addressing citizens’ concerns, expectations, and challenges to ensure a meaningful transition to climate sustainability.
NeuroClima’s nervous system continuously monitors web and social media platforms for emerging trends and discussions on climate-related themes. A comprehensive data-collection and analysis infrastructure, including services and visualisation interfaces, facilitates bottom-up communication, issue identification, and informed policymaking.
NeuroClima is building upon previous analyses, while its monitoring infrastructure informs the development of a theoretical framework titled the “Framework of Values, Skills, and Approaches for Behavioral and Systemic Change for Climate Adaptation”. This framework guides behaviour change efforts and governance towards climate resilience, proposing metrics, activities, toolkits, and multidisciplinary approaches while emphasising the potential of social tipping and leverage points across various contexts.
NeuroClima tools empower citizens and decision-makers in climate adaptation and capitalise on strategic leverage points, engagement mechanisms, and climate literacy. NeuroClima proposes modular digital participation, feedback, and learning tools for onsite, remote, and blended experiences. These tools adapt content in real-time into engaging learning experiences, serving as the project-learning interfaces.
Recognising the importance of narratives for engagement, NeuroClima delivers a gamification and engagement strategy to involve citizens in implementing the EU Adaptation Strategy and the Mission on Adaptation to Climate Change.
NeuroClima also explores digital storytelling, authoring tools, educational board games, and rich media content. It involves policymakers, citizens, and students to co-create motivating learning experiences for climate adaptation.
Additionally, NeuroClima offers content editors and tools for digital participatory spaces, including an interactive storytelling platform for citizens’ creative expression, an AI-enhanced content recommender, and a dedicated editor for creating and consuming learning experiences. These tools empower educators and learners to develop content while monitoring audience engagement to enhance climate literacy.
