KNOWING Final Event – Shaping Climate Futures Together (Event organised by a Mission Project)

KNOWING: Co-creating Climate Futures with Regions

At the Final Event of the Horizon Europe funded project KNOWING in Vienna, regional and municipal practitioners, policymakers and researchers will gain hands-on insight into how scientific climate modelling and local knowledge can be combined to co-develop Climate Pathways for real-world challenges. From heat stress and flooding to energy transitions and mobility choices. Co-created with local stakeholders, KNOWING pathways reflect lived experience, institutional realities and political constraints, and demonstrate how complex climate data can be translated into actionable planning and policy decisions.

Turning Complexity into Informed Decisions

The event will showcase the KNOWING Tools & Services that made this work possible. At the core are the Decision Support System (DSS) and the KNOWING Knowledge Base, which translate complex climate and socio-economic models into transparent decision spaces where planners and decision-makers can test options, explore future scenarios and understand trade-offs before choices are locked in. Equally important are KNOWING’s participatory formats: through Playful Trainings, structured dialogue formats and the Shape Your Future App, stakeholders and citizens from diverse backgrounds engaged constructively with climate futures, ensuring that modelling results were grounded in local priorities, values and institutional realities within the demonstrator regions.

During the event, you will:

• Explore real regional Climate Pathways co-designed with practitioners and stakeholders, showcasing solutions for heat, flooding, mobility and energy transitions grounded in local priorities.
• Experience live demonstrations of the KNOWING Decision Support System (DSS) and Knowledge Base — tools that turn complex climate scenarios into actionable inputs for strategic planning.
• Connect with experts by engaging in discussions and Q&A with researchers, policymakers and regional practitioners who have applied KNOWING methods and tools in practice.
• Hear lessons learned from demonstrator regions, including key challenges, successes and insights on replication and scaling across Europe.
• Participate in interactive sessions, testing participatory formats such as Playful Trainings and the Shape Your Future App to see how stakeholder engagement can actively shape climate decisions.

Have a look at the KNOWING Shape Your Future App, it provides an overview of the challenges and solutions in the four demonstrator regions of KNOWING.

You can join on site in Vienna an remote via Teams Link. Please register in any case!