C21: Climatorium

Action C21 Climatorium will gain from actions under C1 relating to desk analysis and identification of knowledge gaps and reviews of in the risk maps and planned actions.

Experience will be exchanged between demonstration projects C8, C9, C10, C11, C14, C16, C17 and C18 dealing with the coastal cities of Thyborøn, Horsens, Randers, Grenaa and Juelsminde.

A common understanding between stakeholders of sustainable solutions (economically, environmentally, socially and long term) with a focus on land use, cost-effective measures, planning, implementation, maintenance and operation will be shared and developed across actions C8, C9, C11, C10, C14, C17, C18 and facilitated by Central Denmark Region.

Under C1 a workshop will be held to assess synergies and possibilities of integrated solutions for the sea and fjords at the East and West Coast.

Under action C2 knowledge on Climate Change Adaption and rivers developed under different actions will be shared.

Modelling, interpretations, analysis and data sampling are similar in the different catchments and C21 may benefit from this knowledge sharing in relation to the different cathment areas in the east and the west.

Scientific aspects currently the highly debated within EU, e.g. on the synergies and trade-offs between Climate Change Adaption and water ecology, the need for warning systems related to flooding of rivers and local contingency planning, and the synergies between farming and wetland restoration will also be shared and discussed for the benefit of action C21.

Action C7 creates a number of innovative fora to unite important stakeholders within water businesses and to show case climate change and water technologies.

Secondly, C7 will aim at gathering useful information and best practices from cross-cutting demonstration activities. Action C21 will benefit directly from these activities.

Last but not least, Climatorium will benefit from a close collaboration with Action C20 AquaGlobe, which both deals with co-creation, quatro-helix and awareness rising.

Linked to Complementary Actions

“Geopark West Jutland”: A UNESCO Global Geopark with focus on the geology, groundwater and landscape of the area. [Funded by Lemvig Municipality, Struer Municipality, Holstebro Municipality, LAG Lemvig and Ringkøbing-Skjern, LAG Holstebro-Skjern, Central Denmark Region].

What:
The Climatorium is pivotal in the establishment of a CCA Cluster on coastal environment in the region. Other C2C CC actions, dealing with the coastal environment (C8, C9, C11, C14, C17, C18, C 24) can use the Climatorium for communication and innovation.

The Climatorium and AquaGlobe (C20) benefit each other by their different locations in the region and their focus on saltwater and freshwater, respectively. The two actions thus collaborates on ideas, exchange of data, research, tourism, exhibitions etc. The two different locations secures geographical dispersion and attraction of tourists across the region.

The purpose of the Climatorium is to gather knowledge, business and tourism on CCA aspects within an innovation house. This house will have shared office spaces for companies and research institutions (for researchers as well as master and ph.d. students).

The objective is to increase innovation through day-to-day interaction and planned in house seminars. In the core of the house a dynamic climate exhibition will inform about climate change and illustrate selected solutions for the visitors of the house as well as tourists.

The results of the coastal C2C CC actions (C8, C9, C11, C14, C17, C18, C24) will be exhibited in the Climatorium. Exhibitions are coordinated with AquaGlobe (C20). The Climatorium showroom will be expanded continuously with the best practice from C2C CC and with new CCA knowledge in general.

The Climatorium will create a showroom based on companies, innovation, entrepreneurs, researchers, authorities, organizations and tourist actors within water and climate change. The house will be open for holiday- and corporate tourists with exhibitions on the ground floor, special climate tours in the area, presentations of CCA technologies and research, as well as innovation seminars with the companies and organisations in-house.

There are 8.3 mill. coastal tourists from all over Europe per year in the Central Denmark Region, mainly related to the west coast (Dansk Erhverv, 2013), and besides the coast itself Jesperhus Blomsterpark (250,000 turists per year), Klitmøller surf area, and Nationalpark Thy (Natura 2000 area) are well known tourist attractions, which target group the Climatorium supports.

It will be established on the harbor front in the city of Lemvig, a central location in the region in regard to saltwater and coastal challenges, and the location supports and benefits from other climate activities in the area, e.g. Geopark West Jutland (in consideration at UNESCO Global Geopark), which focuses on the geology, groundwater, historical landscape changes and sustainability of the area.

Climate change impacts this area physically, which already attracts ‘climate’ tourists in bad weather. The local weather and climate conditions set demands for the solutions developed, see Figure 9 (Lemvig Le Mur during the Bodil storm). The location itself and the innovative solutions will be of inspiration for others.

The following local climate change measures and landscape characteristics will be part of the showroom:

• ”Le Mur”: Flooding and flood risk in Lemvig solved with an architectual designed flood wall called "Le Mur" (see figure)
• Disembarking in Thyborøn: Disembarking in Thyborøn and the issues of rising groundwater level and saltwater intrusion, which impacts underground infrastructure such as shorter lifetime of sewer pipes. Research and innovation processes between research institutionens, private actors and local governments
• Geosites: The sea eats of the coastline and exposes the geological layers from the two recent ice ages. 135,000 years of climate history is visualized. Geopark West Jutland involves different geosites and examples of most Danish coast types (cf. figure 47)
• Coastal protection solutions: Climate change and natural hazards lead to local flooding, erosion and silting of fairways – New solutions are implemented incl. dikes, coastal protection, sand removal, and new coastal planning. The Danish Coastal Authority in Lemvig and Lemvig Municipality are collaborating on these measures.
• Co-creation: Climate change impacts agriculture by larger leaching of nutrients to freshwater and coastal environments, furthermore is the farmland challenged by an increase in days with waterlogged soils and flooding. The solutions demand collaboration between agricultural businesses, water utilities, companies and authorities that results in a more sustainable environment and a business model for farming. Lemvig has 30 years of experience with co-creation on biogas. Lemvig Water and Wastewater A/S delivers ferrous sludge for phosphor extraction, the yield is 100 % (compared to 40 % by existing technology), and with less CO2 emissions. 
• Stormwater basins to prevent phosphor discharge Lemvig Water and Wastewater A/S and Lemvig Municipality collaborates on implementing stormwater bassins in natural areas to prevent flooding and to prevent phosphor leaching into streams and fjords. Lab tests are carried out and sludge is removed if containing hazardous substances to secure ecology and biodiversity. 

How:
Phase 1 (2017-2018):
Analysis of the potential of a Climate Change Adaption business network and tourism.

1. Analysis of company types in the region and visualization of the synergies between business areas and products.
2. Interviews with entrepreneurs on their needs and interests in an innovation house
3. Interviews with companies on their needs and interests in an innovation house
4. Feasibility study on the potential of tourism incl. spin off from other tourist attractions in the area.

Planning and conceptual design.

1. Preparation of design criteria of the innovation house incl. tenants commitments, knowledge sharing measures and climate features.
2. Preparation of zoning plan.
3. Preparation of conceptual design incl. climate features, design and construction costs.

Phase 2 and beyond:
The Climatorium will be constructed and taken into use.

Phase 1

Activities related to bullet 1 to 4
Where: The Climatorium will be situated in Lemvig, however, act as a regional hub together with AquaGlobe (C20)

When: January 2017 – December 2018

Phase 2 and beyond

Activities related to bullet 5 to 7
When: Phase 2 and Phase 3

The Climatorium will initiate and push for innovation and business development within Climate Change Adaption solutions, and act as a centre for presenting Climate Change Adaption for corporate tourists as well as holiday tourists.

Central Denmark Region is well known for its corporate tourism within wind energy, though, the region has a large potential in increasing corporate tourism within Climate Change Adaption and water technologies, this potential is not yet fully developed.

The Climatorium will together with AquaGlobe (C20) create innovative environments for the water businesses that also act as physical centres for showing showcases within Climate Change Adaption solutions and technologies, not at least the C2C CC results.

The Climatorium is expected to host a number of private companies, who will benefit from being part of the innovative environment preseneted by the Climatorium set-up. All so-called tenants will be asked to give a product presentation, organise a social/technical event or a series of knowledge sharing activities for Climate tourists, offical or private company delegations. To develop a paradigm for the organisational and financial setup for the Climatorium, we need a consultant.

The largest challenge is the final financing for constructing the building.

The financing model is based on the tenants of the house, and initial pre-requests indicate an interest among businesses.

The activities in Phase 1 have the purpose to investigate the potential of the Climatorium, and the house will be financed through tenants.

The tenants will furthermore commit to make products available for exhibitions, contribute to events and seminars on Climate Change Adaption, and be available for meetings and conversations with the visitors and tourists of the house.

The Climatorium expects to facilitate a minimum of 10 companies and organisations situated in the house.

The activities of the house and the companies businesses will create 50 new jobs.

All companies and organisations have a product, event or a process to present and exhibit for awareness raising and attraction of corporate tourism.

That at least 3 new Climate Change Adaption products or methods are produced by the companies in the Climatorium by December 2020.

At least 6 new Climate Change Adaption products or methods are produced by December 2022.

The Climatorium attracts 10.000 climate tourists per year.

Expenses are mainly personnel, and estimation of person days for project managers, project administrators and delivery officers is based salaries and pensions.

Travel costs are based on prior experience and average costs for transportation.

External assistance is need for the outline proposals for the Climatorium, which includes costs for architectural programming, the project design and the design of the proposal, including technical solutions and budget planning.

The estimation of these costs are based on prior experience and preliminary surveying of the market prices. These costs are to be shared between Lemvig Vand og Spildevand A/S and Lemvig Municipality.

Expenses for external assistance is based on prior experience.

Subsistence costs are also based on prior experience and can be further subdivided into Hotel costs, Daily allowances/Payment for meals and local transportation categories, as shown below for this action’s subsistence costs items:

C21

• A list of potential companies and knowledge institutions.
• A concluding report with feedback from interviewees on their interest in the Climatorium and a list of potential entrepreneurs who have expressed interest as tenants.
• A concluding report with feedback from interviewees on their interest in the Climatorium and a list of potential companies which have expressed interest as tenants.
• A feasibility study of tourism documented in a report.
• Design criteria for the purpose of the house documented in a report.
• A zoning plan (digital and pdf.)
• Conceptual design documented in a report.

C.21

30/06/2017: AnalysisA of company types is finalized
31/09/2017: Interviews with entrepreneurs and companies are finalized
31/12/2017: The feasibility study of tourism is finalized
31/03/2018: Design criteria for the innovation house is finalized and the preparation of zoning plan and the political process is initiated.
31/08/2018: The conceptual design is finalized.