About
Where we came from and where we’re headed
Building Resilience for Public Health
Mission
Comprehensively monitor and model interconnected climate and epidemiological stressors so as to be able to provide early warnings, tailored recommendations for adaptation measures, and vital support for informed policymaking, all aimed at safeguarding public health.
Vision
The AURORA project constitutes an innovative research initiative in forecasting and preventing climate change’s impacts on one-health framework, with a primary focus on the EU Boreal region.


Objectives
Climate monitoring, which involves vigilant surveillance of climate factors with the potential to impact environmental, animal, and human health.
Simulation Engine • Data-driven Risk Assessment and Early Warning System • AI-based Decision Support and Recommendation Engine
Obj 01
Enhance short- and long-term insights pertaining to the health consequences of climate-induced stressors by conducting a comprehensive multi-scope analysis, which includes the examination of the influence of climate change on the One Health concept.
Demo and replicant cities
AURORA consortium, with its vast experience in research projects, envisions active engagement with stakeholders throughout all project stages via Implementation Hub. This engagement aims to foster behavioral change and showcase the project's solutions in 5 Demo cities (Riga, Tallinn, Vilnius, Tampere, Pori) and 3 replicant cities (Klaipeda, Joniskis, Jurmala).
Strengthen current epidemiological surveillance, modelling and forecasting capacity induced by climate change through the co-design and -development of 1) a climatic and epidemiological observatory, 2) appropriate models encompassing all socio-economic aspects and adaptation scenarios, and 3) userfriendly forecasting tools.
Obj 02
Improve preventive policy-making and health system’s preparedness ahead of climate change by 1) co-implementing a holistic Decision Support system that entails early-warning and -response, and 2) assessing and predicting the effectiveness and health impact of mitigation solutions, including nature-based ones.
Obj 03
Demonstrate and validate the effectiveness of the AURORA toolset in 5 major Baltic cities (Riga, Vilnius, Tallinn, Tampere, Pori) and replicate its results in 3 participating municipalities (Klaipeda, Jurmala, Joniskis).
Obj 04
Decision Support System Architecture
Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) / Climate Data Store.
Publications, tools, websites and other resources.
Climate indices reflecting priorities of the EEA.
Data annotated by climate adaptation experts.
Statistics on the drivers, emissions, and impacts of climate change.
National / Regional climate and epidemiological data Records.
Real-World data deriving from established IoT / Weather station sensors.
Challenges faced, adaptation measures and NBS solutions provided by experts and local authorities.
Expert opinions gathered and formulated in the context of the project’s implementation hub.
EU climate data
National Epidemiological Climate Data
Adaptation and mitigation measures incl. NBSs
Based on an Open, Common Semantic Data Model.
Near real-time epidemiological and climate change surveillance
Homogenised data
Health Policy Makers and Local Autorities
A near real-time, user-friendly comprehensive and user-friendly epidemiological surveillance tool for (health) policy makers.
Climate Modeling
Epidemiological Modeling
Socio-economic Modeling
Risk and Health Impact Assessment
Recommended adaptations
Early warnings on upcoming epidemiological hazards
Epidemiological
and climate models
Early Warning Engine
The systems provides early warnings to the users when and epidemiological event of high impact is likely to occur.
Scenario Builder
Build complex ‘what if’ scenarios based on the epidemiological and climate models developed and enables users’ customisation and training.
Recommendation Engine
Provides the health and other policy makers with targeted recommendations on the adaptation, NBS and mitigation measures to be implemented for the city/town, region of concern.
Risk Assessment
Assesses the risks associated with the One-health, social and economical impacts of climate change resulting from the simulation.
3D Simulation Environment
The environment in which the various scenarios and adaptations are simulated.
Accelerate the adoption of AURORA solutions and maximise their impact through an efficient dissemination, communication, liaison, training and exploitation activities.