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Climathon Venice 2025
2025-10-04 09:00 - 2025-10-05 18:00 (Europe/Rome) | The Human Safety Net, P.za San Marco, 105, Venezia, 30124, Italy
The climate emergency in Venice is unfolding with accelerated and intensified dynamics. The city’s deep connection with its lagoon – long a source of identity and greatness – now becomes also an element of fragility and vulnerability. Venice, the world’s iconic city of water, and its lagoon ecosystem, rich in biodiversity, local knowledge, and traditional practices, stand on the front lines of climate change. Among its most evident impacts, high tide events, storm surges, heavy precipitations, and heatwaves, which are becoming increasingly frequent and severe.

The challenge is to harness the uniqueness and richness of this territory and turn them into resources for climate resilience. Because resilience – the ability of a system to cope with change without losing its trajectory of development – stems from diversity: of functions, responses, and solutions. Policies alone – whether European, national, or local – aren’t enough. Infrastructure alone isn’t enough. We need something more. We need connection. We need collective action, rooted in care for the land and its traditions. We need to be a community.

The challenge of Climathon Venice 2025

Let’s create solutions that build networks and prepare us to face extreme climate events – by leveraging the unique features of Venice and its lagoon.

Climathon Venice 2025 focuses on two key directions, both deeply rooted in the city’s identity:

Solutions for and with the most vulnerableThe goal is to design supportive solutions for those most vunlerable to the impacts of climate change. These solutions should emerge from the territory itself, reflecting the specific characteristics of the lagoon and the complex architecture of the historic center of Venice.

Solutions for and with the lagoonThe lagoon and its biodiversity are what make Venice truly unique. Can they also become the cornerstone of its climate adaptation? This challenge invites the creation of solutions that promote the active protection of the lagoon ecosystem, engaging citizens, schools, associations, and institutions while at the same time harnessing biodiversity, local knowledge, and traditional practices as active resources in responding to climate change.

How to participate

Learn more about the event and how to participate here.

Who we are and why we do this

Climathon Venice 2025 is organized by the International Centre for Climate Change Research and Studies (CSRCC), in collaboration with Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, The National Research Council of Italy (CNR) and the Biodiversity Gateway of the National Biodiversity Future Center, under the patronage of the Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere, ed Arti [ITA]. We thank The Human Safety Net Foundation by Generali. This initiative is part of our “third mission”, that is, activities that foster engagement between academia and society, with a strong focus on the Venetian territory. Our aim is to actively involve citizens in a public dialogue about the future of Venice and its lagoon in the face of climate change.
