Benidorm, one of the ten cities in Europe to test the climate resilience of the coasts by the SCORE Project

The SCORE Project (Smart Control of the Climate Resilience of European Coastal Cities) focuses on research to increase climate resilience in European coastal cities.

Its objective is to design, develop, monitor and validate effective adaptation measures in coastal and low-lying areas to protect them from growing climatic risks as well as sea-level variations that could affect them in the form of coastal flooding and, fundamentally, marine erosion. Improving the overall long-term resilience of coastal cities is the motivation for the SCORE project.

Tomorrow, Thursday, from 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m., in the multipurpose room of the Torrejó Municipal Building, the co-creation day of the project and presentation of the Benidorm Coastal Living Lab will take place, a real test bench on the evolution of our coasts and the conjunction of action anthropic in the coastal environment.

The Councilor for Beaches and the Environment, Mónica Gómez, has highlighted the importance of the issue, "in line with the work we are doing from the Engineering area and the departments of Beaches and the Environment to increase all the resilience fronts of Benidorm ”. In this sense and regarding climate resilience, the objective of the Score project, Gómez explained that “climate resilience includes the processes, practices and structures to be developed to moderate the potential damage that climate change may inflict on our beaches, which are the essence of Benidorm. as the first tourist destination in the Mediterranean”

The councillor has invited neighbours, groups, associations, institutions, professionals and organizations to join this act that is part of the activity that has begun to be held this morning at the University of Alicante, which actively participates in this European program that is 28 cities from 12 countries have adhered and that until Friday afternoon has a complete academic agenda in which the Engineering Area of ​​the Benidorm City Council and the Smart Destination Lab Benidorm DTI actively participate.

In the case of the city of Benidorm, tomorrow the pilot The Coastal Living Lab will also be presented, of which Benidorm is one of the European headquarters. The other nine are located in the Irish coastal cities of Dublin and Sligo, the Portuguese of Oeiras, the Polish of Gdansk, the Slovenian of Piran, the Turkish of Samsun and the Italian of Massa. Vilanova and la Geltrú, in the province of Barcelona, ​​and Oarsoaldea, which make up the coasts of Errenteria, Lezo, Oiratzun and Pasaia, in Guipúzcoa, Basque Country, are the other two Spanish coastal points in the SCORE Project laboratory system.

“Preserve the quality of our beaches and marine ecosystem, analyze Climate Change issues, obtain data and apply technological tools” to quickly, equitably and sustainably improve the climate resilience of Benidorm” while “making the results scalable to other European coastal cities•, always through the ecosystem-based approach (EBA) and sophisticated digital technologies are the final arguments, highlighted councillor Mónica Gómez, who have determined "Benidorm's commitment and involvement in this project", has highlighted the councillor.

This concluded Gómez, "connects with sophisticated digital technologies, even 'digital twin', and fully enters into the policies of smart cities and tourist destinations" with which Benidorm "remains in the line of leadership for its adaptation to the Climate Change that will soon materialize with new proposals”.