Every city faces its own challenges when adapting to climate change—flooding, heatwaves, and balancing sustainable development call for tailored solutions.

R-Cities joined forces with 9 partners
through REACHOUT—an EU funded program.
Together, we accompanied seven European cities as they tested tools, shared lessons and created practical pathways to build more resilient and inclusive futures.
Along the way, the building blocks of resilience—housing, equity, biodiversity, health, and essential services—remained universal.
Explore their insights!
Illustration of a heatwave strategy
Expanding despite the floods
How can Cork expand and regenerate while ensuring the long-term protection for its residents?

Finding the right solution for each city
meant adapting multiple tools to local needs.

Where a city is in its adaptation journey, how well it understands the risks it faces and how exposed its residents are, shaped which tools gave cities a fuller picture to make better decisions.
To share their insights with you, we've organised our findings around questions cities asked when facing common challenges.
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Challenges & Solutions

Seven urban realities