GReENERGY 2.0 project aim is in line with the overall aim of the program to strengthen the social, economic, and territorial development of the programme area by doing joint interventions in the areas of sustainable energy and green infrastructure. It contributes to Priority Axis 2 Specific Objective (SO) 2.2 “To promote the use of sustainable energy and energy efficiency”. The project contributes to Project Output Indicator “Additional capacity of renewable energy production (MW)” by installing additional solar energy plants (0.15 MW of power; annual production of 187.5 MW) in Osijek and by improving the energy efficiency of public buildings with the installation of a green wall in Novi Sad. GReENERGY 2.0 also contributes to the program result indicator “Energy consumption by public buildings in the programme area” by providing renewable energy for public buildings and decreasing its use of energy from non-renewable sources. The project's main target groups are local public authorities, regional public authorities, higher education and research institutions, education/training centers and schools, SMEs, business support organizations, and the general public. These target groups will be reached through the project, public events, and social media profiles. The project will further use and capitalize on the results and outputs of the previous project (GReENERGY) by adding new capacities for renewable energy production in the program area, contributing to the carbon-zero concept in cities, and increasing the awareness of the local population in the cross-border area and beyond. Read more: http://www.greenenergy.rs/index.php?p=0&s=0&l=0&c=0&h=1&r=1 

The current state of weather-induced agricultural losses, water use for irrigation, the appearance of new invasive species and disease vectors (strongly depending on micrometeorological conditions), new environmental zoning of plant diseases and pests, deforestation, increased urbanization, rural-to-urban migration and increased urban energy consumption for cooling/heating impose scientific and societal request to provide micrometeorological knowledge share platform (Micromet_KSP) in order to communicate: a) compiled an inventory of available and quality proven micrometeorological in situ data sets on the European level and beyond, b) measurement and data management recommendations designed in order to meet FAIR principles and avoid temporal and spatial gaps, c) examples of rural and urban FAIR data sets and d) Q&A exchanged between Action members, stakeholders, specialized user groups and the general public. Read more: https://www.fairness-ca20108.eu 

This project tried to fill this research gap by identifying the local heat thresholds and triggers in Serbia, located in Southeast Europe. There were two research questions: 1) How many people have died during recent heatwave events (2015-2020) in Serbia? 2) At what temperature/humidity/duration combination do extreme temperatures lead to an increase in death in the period 2015-2020 in Serbia? This project was supported by the Global Disaster Preparedness Center, Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre, and Global Heat Health Information Network (GHHIN). Read more: https://sites.google.com/view/extremeheatinserbia/home 

The common territorial challenges in the Croatian-Serbian cross-border region are increased energy consumption by public buildings due to their insufficient energy efficiency, insufficient usage of renewable energy and lack of knowledge related to energy efficiency (EE) and renewable energy sources (RES) among authorities and general public. The project approach in addressing these challenges is by jointly developing and implementing green roofs and walls as well as solar panels on selected public buildings in Osijek and Novi Sad (one building in each city) supplemented with promotional and educational activities related to EE and RES topics. Green roofs and walls will be implemented in order to improve buildings energy efficiency and thus decrease their energy consumption. Solar panels will be deployed on building roofs in order to promote, produce and use renewable energy for green walls and roofs maintenance, air conditioning and light in buildings, preparation of hot water, thus promoting circular economy principles. The main project objective is to improve the energy efficiency of public buildings with the usage of green roofs and walls, to produce and use RES using solar panels and to promote EE and RES usage to public and private sector. The project outputs are estimated to reach about 213 kW of additional renewable energy production and efficiency. Achievement of the project will positively affect target groups, i.e. local and regional public authorities, sectoral agencies, NGOs, private sector, pupils and students, workers in buildings, and general public of two cities - about 400000 people. Cities agencies, private sector, NGOs and general public will benefit from developed infrastructure and knowledge transfer while project partners will gain new partnership for future cooperation in the region. Read more: http://www.greenenergy.rs/index.php?p=0&s=0&l=0&c=0&h=1&r=1 

Climate change is expected to increase the frequency and intensity of precipitation and pluvial flood occurrences in urban areas of Central Europe. Thus, the proposed project presents an outstanding opportunity to develop and implement an innovative monitoring, forecasting and online public early warning system for extreme precipitation and pluvial floods in urban areas of the Hungarian-Serbian Cross-border region. Through the project, two dense monitoring precipitation networks will be installed in the most-populous cities of the Programme area: Novi Sad (Serbia) and Szeged (Hungary). Continuous data recording, transmission and processing, as well as real time display of the processed data in a spatial (i.e. map) form will be useful for citizens (i.e. individual adaptation) and public institutions (e.g. traffic and water management, city government) of the Cross-border region. Real-time precipitation forecasting model for the whole programme area supplemented with the forecast of pluvial flood occurrences in Novi Sad and Szeged will be developed through the project based on the measured data from the networks and the remotely sensed data. Measured data will be used to fine-tune the remotely sensed data thus enabling the development of more precise forecast model for the Programme area. Measured and forecasted data will be freely available for everyone in real-time on the project website, project social pages and mobile android application giving an early warning to the citizens and public authorities in order to protect them and prepare their effective response to these extreme weather and water situations. Read more: http://www.urban-prex.org/index.php?p=0&s=0&l=0&c=0&h=1&r=1 

The long-term and effective monitoring of the excess heat generated by the cities of the project (Szeged and Novi Sad) is possible with the application of a measurement network, whose spatial resolution provides the detection (tracking) the differences between thermal characteristics of the neighborhoods, and whose temporal resolution allows the exploration of both the diurnal as well as the seasonal peculiarities. To achieve this goal, the following tasks are carried out in both cities: installation of a measurement networks of 25-30 stations with automatic data logger and transmission system; creation of high-resolution maps from the processed data about spatial structure of the thermal conditions, thermal load, and their continuous, real-time online presentation on the internet and public screen. Read more: http://en.urban-path.hu/