This project is seeking to improve the capacity of communities to adapt in response to climate change. It will improve the implementation of necessary adaptive changes through a more comprehensive framework of public and business stakeholder engagement. The project is seeking to ensure that communities are resilient when faced with the inevitable need for change resulting from environmental, accessibility, demographic and territorial challenges. In particular the challenges faced by communities impacted by Sea Level Rise. It will assist this through a Comprehensive Framework Approach to engagement which integrates economic planning with social wellbeing with environmental planning.

The project will centre on the populations and communities on the North Sea coastal rim which are affected by sea level rise and as a consequence need to adapt. The project's transnational nature arises from all the partners facing a shared; environmental threat, responsibility for populations under threat and desire to jointly develop good practice. This will be achieved though the principles of sustainable development, innovation, territorial cohesion, transnational co-operation and additionality. The project responds to the need to promote sustainable and competitive communities and EU Government Frameworks such as the Bristol Accord which seeks to create jobs, economic prosperity, social justice and improved quality of life for all of the EU's citizens

To strengthen the resilience of the regions and communities to create a safer environment. The project will create greater skills capacity within communities and business stakeholders and within the organisations with responsibility for planning and preparing for change. The project will do this firstly through identifying community and economic interest stakeholders and then engaging them in transnational project activities.

The partners are seeking through the project a more integrated and consistently better way to plan and manage the implementation of changes in the populations under threat, taking into account the 'living with water' concept. The outcomes being a better life for the people in these threatened communities and the promotion of sustainable economic activity, through developing and implementing transnational management plans involving multiple institutions and stakeholders in the relevant fields.

• A Comprehensive Framework Approach for communication and engaging stakeholders in planning and implementing necessary adaptation as a result of climate change. Stakeholders would include; communities, businesses, Government organisations, politicians and NGOs. This will also be applicable to other geographic areas in the EU where change and adaptation as a consequence of climate change are necessary. For example, where pressures on water resources necessitates changes to agriculture and land use.
• Increased skills and capacity within the partner organisations and project communities and businesses to plan and implement the changes necessary.
• Increased understanding and awareness of new opportunities which might be created and realised from required change.

All the partners are currently involved in engagement and communications activities relating to adaptive change. All the partners are having difficulties with engagement, some of the problems are similar, others are being faced by only one partner currently but are likely to arise for other partners some time in the future. There is therefore a recognised potential to learn from each other through joint transnational actions.