Morant: "We need to reclaim our towns in a transformative way, creating climate-neutral and more resilient cities"

The Minister for Science, Innovation and Universities, Diana Morant, at the closing of the plenary session of the 'Innpulso Network'

Morant closed the plenary session of the Innpulso Network, which is a forum for meeting and defining innovative local policies that currently includes 90 municipalities in our country.

The Minister for Science, Innovation and Universities, Diana Morant, has assured that, after the emergency of the DANA, "we have to recover and rebuild our towns in a transformative way, creating climate-neutral cities that are more resilient to external threats, such as catastrophes caused by climate change".

Morant stated this during the closing of the plenary session of the 'Innpulso Network', which was held at the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities (MICIU), where she pointed out that this network plans to launch the "Innovation Programme for Climate Resilience" with the aim of contributing to the recovery of cities affected by the DANA.

Specifically, this Programme is aimed at promoting the design of a new model for action in response to disasters with climate criteria that integrates scientific knowledge with the technical capacities of the territory, articulating an innovative ecosystem of territorial basis for recovery and transformation.

It also aims to promote technical cooperation between the municipalities of the 'Innpulso Network' and the cities affected by the DANA in a "twinning" programme.

Another of its objectives is to strengthen interdisciplinary knowledge transfer in the affected municipalities, integrating a mixed team of scientific specialists, municipal technical staff and other professionals to identify, adapt and apply science and innovation-based solutions and provide science-based guidelines for recovery and transformation.

The minister explained that this initiative will be joined by the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and the Centre for the Development of Industrial Technology (CDTI), reporting to the MICIU; the National Office for Scientific Advice (ONAC), and the two public universities in Valencia: the University of Valencia (UV) and the Polytecnic University of Valencia (UPV).

'Innpulso Network' or 'Network of Science and Innovation Cities'.

The 'Innpulso Network' or 'Network of Science and Innovation Cities', of which 90 municipalities currently form part, is a forum for meeting and defining innovative local policies and a space where good practices in the management of innovative policies and communication initiatives are shared in order to transfer these projects to the citizens.

The Network is an increasingly active player in promoting innovative policies, such as public procurement of innovation, support for SMEs and entrepreneurs and the definition of innovation criteria. It also promotes and supports participation in projects in the context of European programmes.

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