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The project “Walking towards a climate-resilient Ilion: participation, inclusion, knowledge, and action” aims to strengthen the climate resilience of the Municipality of Ilion through citizen participation, accessibility, and environmental awareness. Based on the principles of climate justice and socially equitable adaptation, the project creates a new way of connecting citizens with public space and the data that concerns them. The central tool is Climate Walks (experiential environmental education and participatory observation routes), which are complemented by a digital application with open data, participatory planting, and a climate festival. By recording citizens’ experiential experiences, participatory tools, and nature-based solutions, the project empowers vulnerable groups and highlights policy proposals that are incorporated into the Municipality’s strategies, with the aim of creating a more accessible and equitable public space, where the daily experience of residents forms the basis for climate action with a lasting social impact.
DREVEN contributes to the project through specialized staff with experience in climate, social, and economic sciences and information technology, undertaking the management and coordination of the project and its individual actions. Its involvement ensures scientific validity, methodological consistency, and the connection of the action with the broader European and national climate adaptation framework. DREVEN is leading the development of a digital application (maps, QR, real-time participation, content accessibility, connection with sensors), which, as an information and participation tool, will provide citizens with data that is currently unavailable or not easily understandable—such as air quality and thermal comfort indicators—and will allow for the recording of observations and suggestions in real time. In addition, DREVEN, in collaboration with the Municipality of Ilion, will design Climate Walks with the aim of capturing and highlighting the lived experience of citizens in their daily lives as a means of understanding the challenges posed by climate change in urban areas, with the basic principle of equal participation of all social groups, especially the most vulnerable. Finally, DREVEN will participate actively in the pilot implementation of the walks as well as in their full implementation, while also playing an active role in the collection of feedback data.
