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What is the Time2Adapt project?
The Time2Adapt project was selected during the first call for projects of the European Urban Initiative - Innovative Actions (EUI-IA) in September 2023. It aims to test solutions for adapting to the effects of climate change by focusing on temporal policies.
Led by Lille Metropole’s “Time Office”, the project is a forerunner in Europe in terms of adapting to climate change, with its innovative time-based approach to public policy. Through this project, Lille Metropole and its local partners wants to help inhabitants to cope better with the periods of extreme heat that are becoming more and more frequent during the summer.
The EUI-IA programme newly approach includes a transferring component. The objective is that project outputs are replicated and scaled up by other European cities. The impact of the whole initiative will then be increased. The three Transfer Partners chosen for this project are the city of Dresden (Germany), the city of Middelburg (The Netherlands), and Metropolitan Area of Barcelona (Spain).
To find out more about our opening visit in Lille Metropole last summer you can check our article here.
Heading to Barcelona : get inspired and share
The collaboration between the Lille Metropole project team and its three transfer partners includes field visits to each of the territories. These visits have several aims: to draw inspiration from what is being done in other parts of Europe, to adapt to climate change during periods of extreme heat, and also to give feedback and advice to the partners on their experiments. This gives us the opportunity to exchange ideas with peers and share experiences.
On 12 and 13 June, Lille Metropole, alongside two of its local partners (Cerema and Écologie Urbaine & Citoyenne), went to the Àrea Metropolitana de Barcelona (AMB).
First, the team was welcomed by the AMB, who presented their work on creating a network of climate shelters, both indoors and outdoors. As part of this work, a visit was planned at Ca l'Arnús Park in Badalona, a park with cooling facilities to enable residents to cool off in hot weather. The park includes an educational area where young visitors can learn more about how to identify cool spots.
On the second day, we visited the site where a pilot project will be developed: the Pascual Cañís school in the Ajuntament Sant Joan Despí. An old school that is no longer in use, it will be transformed into a climate refuge while incorporating a temporal approach. The idea is to create for the inhabitants "a home away from home". This pilot action will be directly inspired by the Time2Adapt project.
What's in store for the summer?
Meanwhile, summer and the heat are back in Lille Metropole, and so are Time2Adapt's experiments. It includes in the cities of Lille and Loos:
- A reflection on opening hours of cool spaces (museums, cemeteries, swimming pools),
- Installation of temporary furniture co-built with residents by Association SEED,
- A work on the vegatlisation of schoolyards open to the wider public.
This summer's launch event took place on 28 June in Loos's Danel Park with a festive atmosphere, where the furniture developed by the Association SEED and co-constructed with local residents could already be seen.
The collaboration doesn't stop there! The "Time Office" (Bureau des Temps) team will be travelling to Dresden and Middelburg and welcoming these partners to the region next summer.
In the meantime, you can take a look at the ‘Cities hit Refresh’ campaign launched by the Covenant of Mayors, which brings together the actions taken by pioneering cities, including Lille Metropole, to adapt urban environments to heatwaves.
