KNOWING Final Event
Event location
Haus der Musik/House of Music Vienna
Don’t miss the opportunity to participate! The registration is open until the 27th of March 2026, please register here!
For any questions, please contact KNOWING Project Coordinator: coord@knowing-climate.eu Â
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Join the KNOWING Final Event to explore Regional Climate Pathways that turn climate targets into concrete, locally grounded decisions.
Limited availability – Free registration.
Register now to secure your place and ensure your participation before 27.03.2026!
KNOWING: Co-creating Climate Futures with Regions
At the Final Event of the Horizon Europe funded project KNOWING in Vienna, regional and municipal practitioners, policymakers and researchers will gain hands-on insight into how scientific climate modelling and local knowledge can be combined to co-develop Climate Pathways for real-world challenges. From heat stress and flooding to energy transitions and mobility choices. Co-created with local stakeholders, KNOWING pathways reflect lived experience, institutional realities and political constraints, and demonstrate how complex climate data can be translated into actionable planning and policy decisions.
Turning Complexity into Informed Decisions
The event will showcase the KNOWING Tools & Services that made this work possible. At the core are the Decision Support System (DSS) and the KNOWING Knowledge Base, which translate complex climate and socio-economic models into transparent decision spaces where planners and decision-makers can test options, explore future scenarios and understand trade-offs before choices are locked in. Equally important are KNOWING’s participatory formats: through Playful Trainings, structured dialogue formats and the Shape Your Future App, stakeholders and citizens from diverse backgrounds engaged constructively with climate futures, ensuring that modelling results were grounded in local priorities, values and institutional realities within the demonstrator regions.
During the event, you will:
- Explore real regional Climate Pathways co-designed with practitioners and stakeholders, showcasing solutions for heat, flooding, mobility and energy transitions grounded in local priorities.
- Experience live demonstrations of the KNOWING Decision Support System (DSS) and Knowledge Base — tools that turn complex climate scenarios into actionable inputs for strategic planning.
- Connect with experts by engaging in discussions and Q&A with researchers, policymakers and regional practitioners who have applied KNOWING methods and tools in practice.
- Hear lessons learned from demonstrator regions, including key challenges, successes and insights on replication and scaling across Europe.
- Participate in interactive sessions, testing participatory formats such as Playful Trainings and the Shape Your Future App to see how stakeholder engagement can actively shape climate decisions.
At the KNOWING Final Event, you will also get a hands-on introduction to the Climate Impact & Coping Typology. By answering 12 quick questions via a simple online survey, participants can explore their own approach to climate challenges and see how it relates to broader patterns across Europe. Take the survey here and join the conversation!
Agenda
Welcome from the KNOWING coordination team; the opening messages will frame the day.
This session will provide an overview of the challenges addressed in KNOWING, establishing the framework for subsequent sessions focusing on the modelling framework and the engagement and communication approach.
The incorporation of the regions in KNOWING will be introduced, along with some experiences.
The session will focus on KNOWING Demonstrator regions and models relevant for them in terms of their climate impact context. Details of the models will be provided in due course.
Starting from a qualitative framework of causal loop diagrams, the modelling framework is presented. This consists of a set of domain and system dynamics models, the latter informed by the former. The system model simulates climate impacts and the effectiveness of mitigation and adaptation strategies. This has been used to develop pathways for different CICs, identifying optimised bundles of measures. The outcomes and needs expressed by those in the workshops are discussed, including variation of pathways.
This session will focus on Follower regions in KNOWING and beyond.
Transferability will be introduced through a combination of qualitative and quantitative approaches in the EU and the KNOWING context. A review of the typology of climate mitigation pathways will be presented, along with an analysis of the strengths and limitations of each. The presentation will provide an outlook on the usability of the KNOWING Knowledge Base and the Decision Support System (DSS), as well as on dissemination and exploitation beyond the project.Â
A vegetarian buffet will be served to restore energy for the afternoon sessions.
This session will cover the methods and tools that were used to co-create pathways with the stakeholders. It will address methods and tools as follows:
- Introduce and demonstrate the KNOWING Knowledge Base and Decision Support System (DSS); Tools can be tested and feedback provided directly at the event.
- Engagement logic along the pathway journey: kick-off, challenge, visioning; present and incorporate pathways.
- Why stakeholder engagement is a core enabler of climate pathways.
- From co-creation to structured discussion: the Pathway Workshop format.
- Communicating and validating pathways with stakeholders.Â
- Roles, facilitation, and co-leadership.
- KNOWING Climate Activation & Empowerment: Playful Trainings and Shape Your Future App
- The Local Hub as a blueprint for governance, engagement and continuity: anchoring the Local Hub beyond the project.
This session will focus on testing the KNOWING tools together and capacity building. Covered tools:
- Knowledge Base,Â
- Decision Support Service (DSS),
- Shape your future App,
- Playful Trainings
The session will be interactive to collect experiences and feedback from the audience.
The closing plenary will be held with the sibling project NEVERMORE and will
- Re-cap what the projects achieved,
- Link achievements to current developments and state persisting gaps,
- Deliver lessons learnt and recommendations to regions and EU commission.
Review the day, discuss and network with other participants over light refreshments.