Communities and built environments are increasingly exposed to compound and cascading hazards, from floods and earthquakes to heatwaves and wildfires. Traditional risk management approaches lack robust and prescient solutions to deal with the increasing risk. Instead, there is a need for integrated resilience strategies that combine technical, social, and policy innovations to safeguard people, buildings, and cities.

This workshop showcased and connected leading Horizon Europe projects that are pioneering multi-hazard resilience solutions. By creating a platform for exchange and co-design, the session supported knowledge transfer, identified complementarities between approaches, and built actionable pathways to strengthen resilience in the built environment. The workshop convened five projects working at the intersection of technology, design, and social innovation:

• MULTICLIMACT developed a toolkit of 18 design methods, materials, and digital solutions to strengthen resilience across buildings, neighbourhoods, and territories.
• CLIMRES piloted climate-resilient buildings in Southern Europe, producing a replication roadmap, capacity-building programmes, and guidance for stakeholders.
• MULTICARE provided low-carbon, plug-and-play technologies and digital tools for multi-hazard retrofit scenarios, coupled with multi-criteria decision frameworks.
• Minority Report built a people-centric resilience platform integrating BIM, digital twins, AI-driven weather modelling, and co-creation with vulnerable communities.
• RETIME addressed real-time urban adaptation needs through hazard alert systems, digital building twins, renovation passports, and a resilience knowledge hub.

The workshop combined short project pitches with participatory activities, including multi-hazard mapping, asset identification, and co-design of “resilience action pathways.”

Innovative Results:
The session highlighted novel tools and frameworks for resilience, from predictive AI-driven modelling and digital twins to life-cycle decision frameworks and community co-creation methodologies.

Outcomes included:

• A shared multi-hazard asset map connecting innovations across projects.

• A hazard–solution matrix aligning resilience measures with specific risks.

By uniting technological, social, and systemic approaches, this workshop advanced integrated resilience strategies and fostered collaboration across research, policy, and practice, contributing to safer, adaptive, and sustainable European places.