Assessing climate adaptation actions: Reflections from June’s Thematic Working Group on MEL

As Europe heads towards one of its warmest summers on record, a question becomes increasingly pressing: How can we assess whether climate adaptation actions are in fact making communities more resilient? This was the central question discussed during the second interactive workshop co-organised by UNDERPIN, together with the Thematic Working Group for Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (TWG-MEL) […]
Upcoming Event: The MEL Clinic: Diagnosing and strengthening regional and local learning systems at EURESFO 2026 in Guimarães, Portugal!

Date & Location: 17 June 2026, 13:30 – 15:15 CEST in Guimarães, Portugal at the European Urban Resilience Forum (EURESF0 2026) Conference Organiser & Partners: ICLEI Europe, Municipio Guimarães, & European Environmental Agency Registration: Sign up at the link here. Please note, participation is in-person only. This interactive workshop explores how Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) systems operate in practice […]
Upcoming Event: Assessing adaptation action outcomes: From theory to practice

Date: 26 June 2026, 10:30-12:00 CEST Duration: 90 minutes Co-organisers: MIP4Adapt, TWG-MEL, and UNDERPIN Online event: Webex meeting/webinar – register here! The focus of this session is to present the state of the art in adaptation monitoring and discuss progress by the UNDERPIN project (2025-2028) towards the development of an outcome-oriented monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL) framework that can credibly measure adaptation effectiveness and climate resilience […]
UNDERPIN to convene session on climate adaptation measurement at the European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2026

We are pleased to announce that our session, “Measuring climate adaptation: from processes and outputs to outcomes and impacts,” has been officially confirmed as part of the European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly 2026. Date/Time: 6 May 2026 from 08:30 to 10:15 AM (CEST), followed by a poster session from 10:45 AM to 12:30 PM […]