Just-CURS
The Just Climate Urban Resilience Service (Just-CURS) provides a coherent set of indicators and services to assess urban climate resilience in the Municipality of Aigaleo, with a focus on adaptation to extreme heat. The development of the Just-CURS platform involves collaboration among three organisations: the Municipality of Aigaleo, the National Centre of Scientific Research “Demokritos” (NCSRD), and the National Observatory of Athens (NOA).
Just-CURS is an urban climate digital twin platform, designed and developed by NCSRD, with scientific input from NOA and the Municipality of Aigaleo, and implemented by IANUS-TECHNOLOGIES. It integrates climate modelling, socio-economic indicators, citizen science, and urban planning tools to support equitable climate adaptation strategies. Unlike traditional climate services, Just-CURS integrates scientific simulations with local stakeholder knowledge and participatory planning.
The Just-CURS framework is designed to be a replicable and transferable solution that can be adopted by other European cities and regions, thereby supporting the broader EOSC vision of open, interoperable, and reusable scientific services and infrastructure.
The service generates high-resolution climate projections, extreme climate indices, summer energy demand, and heatwave risk maps, informed by climate risk assessment, carbon footprint analyses, community resilience indicators, and scenario-based urban cooling models. In addition, Just-CURS enables the evaluation of adaptation scenarios through digital twin simulations, allowing users to assess the impacts of nature-based solutions, urban greening interventions, and cooling strategies on urban microclimates and societal resilience. Just-CURS explores urban cooling pathways using scenario-based modelling, including the impacts of cool roofs and urban greening interventions. The platform delivers results through interactive GIS visualisations, geospatial datasets, analytical reports, resilience indices, and scenario-based decision-support tools, providing municipalities, researchers, policymakers, and local stakeholders with actionable information to develop equitable and sustainable climate adaptation strategies.
Just-CURS for EOSC
Just-CURS is designed to fully align with the EOSC ecosystem by adopting FAIR data principles and promoting interoperable, reproducible, and reusable climate adaptation services. The platform integrates heterogeneous climate, environmental, socio-economic, and geospatial datasets through standardized interfaces and open data formats, facilitating seamless data exchange and cross-domain interoperability. Just-CURS supports the use of established standards and protocols, including OGC-compliant geospatial services, metadata catalogues, and interoperable APIs, enabling integration with EOSC services and infrastructures. By providing FAIR-compliant datasets, reproducible analytical workflows, and scalable digital services, Just-CURS contributes to the development of a sustainable, collaborative, and user-oriented European ecosystem for climate adaptation and urban resilience planning.
Through systematic enhancement of preparedness for heatwave risks, the service underpins robust, evidence-based decision-making in heat and climate risk management and enables the design of targeted interventions for vulnerable populations, verified through empirical assessment. Just-CURS is establishing itself as a replicable model for climate adaptation across European cities.
EOSC Readiness
Track the readiness of the Just-CURS service over the three-year implementation period of the Climate-Adapt4EOSC project
Research Papers
As part of Climate-Adapt4EOSC, new research is being carried out to strengthen the scientific foundations of the Just-CURS service and support its integration into EOSC In line with the project’s commitment to Open Science and FAIR principles, the results will be published here and in peer-reviewed journals and made available through Open Access channels.
Service Development Team
LNEC (Laboratório Nacional de Engenharia Civil) leads the development of OPENHIDRA, drawing on its expertise in coastal and estuarine hydrodynamic modelling, wave dynamics, coastal early-warning systems, port engineering and information technology service and platform development. OPENHIDRA is designed to help users deploy simulations to support adaptation planning and physics-based decision-making. Within the project, LNEC provides the scientific, methodological and technical input needed to ensure the service meets real user needs and integrates cleanly into the EOSC ecosystem.
