Regions4Climate is coordinated by the VTT Technical Research Centre in Finland, bringing together 44 partners from 13 European countries, and it has received a total subsidy of €24.5 million from the European Commission, whereby the French Basque Country will receive more than €3.5 million to address the risks of flooding and erosion on the Basque coast. More specifically, the Agglomeration Community of the Basque Country (CAPB), the Basque Coastal GIS, AZTI, UPPA and Rivages Pro Tech participate in the Basque-French area of influence. The project will start in January 2023 and will run for five years.

The Basque Country will work with a dozen European regions on innovative climate resilience solutions within the framework of the Horizon Regions4Climate project

This project has a cross-border dimension, which is essential, as the French and Spanish coasts that make up the Basque coastline present a series of common challenges. For this reason, similar actions to those being carried out in the Basque Country, which are led by the Department for Economic Development, Sustainability and the Environment, Ihobe, the Basque Government's Public Company for Environmental Management, along with the technology centres AZTI, Tecnalia Research and Innovation and Zabala Innovation Consulting, which will use their extensive experience to support other European regions to better understand the complexity of climate risks and apply the lessons learned from other benchmark regions.

The actions to be carried out on the Basque-French coast include the development of real-time flood risk monitoring tools, involving: the installation of coastal videometry systems and the development of numerical models aimed at predicting the washing over of structures due to waves at two locations: one urban location, in the bay of St Jean de Luz, and another natural location, Erromardie Beach; as well as active protection with the deployment of breakwaters and the reinforcement of natural barriers to dissipate wave energy.