FARCLIMATE

Climate adaptation is not an abstract policy challenge. It’s a daily reality for farming communities across Europe, where shifting seasons, extreme weather, and water scarcity are reshaping livelihoods in real time. FARCLIMATE was born from a straightforward conviction: that the people most affected by climate change should have the tools and knowledge to design their own adaptation strategies — not wait for solutions to trickle down from Brussels.

Inviable joined this Horizon Europe consortium through an invitation from Contactica, our long-standing partner in European R&D. We hadn’t worked on climate adaptation before, but the project’s framing aligned perfectly with how we think: start from the territory, design with communities, and build tools that make scientific knowledge usable.

What we do in FARCLIMATE

Our work centers on three intertwined areas. First, we designed the project’s gender-transformative approach — not as a box to check, but as a lens that reshapes how adaptation strategies are conceived. Farming in Europe is deeply gendered, and any adaptation framework that ignores this produces blind spots. We developed the methodology and tools so that gender analysis is embedded across every work package, not confined to a standalone deliverable.

Second, we lead stakeholder engagement. This means designing the processes through which local farmers, cooperatives, researchers, and policymakers actually talk to each other. Not a conference with post-its — structured, iterative engagement that builds trust and produces actionable knowledge over months, not days.

Third — and this is where our digital capabilities come in — we’re building the Transformation Hub. It’s a platform designed to make the project’s scientific outputs usable by the communities who need them. The Hub went through extensive user research, iterative prototyping, and is now in implementation. Our ambition is for it to become a reusable infrastructure: a model for how knowledge platforms can serve territorial climate action beyond the lifetime of a single funded project.

Why this project matters to us

FARCLIMATE is the project we’re most proud of right now. Not because it’s the largest, but because it’s the clearest demonstration of how our three capabilities — assessment, participatory design, and digital tools — integrate in a single project. It’s also where we’ve learned the most about what it takes to build tools with communities rather than for them.