The C2IMPRESS consortium has recently participated at the 13th International Conference on Sustainable Development 2025. The conference was organised by the European Center of Sustainable Development in collaboration with CIT University from 10 to 11 September, 2025, in Rome, Italy. The 13th ICSD 2025 addressed the pressing challenges of environmental, economic, and socio-cultural sustainability to ensure a better planet for the present and future generations. Hundreds of academicians, researchers and industry leaders joined the event to address the core and interconnected questions of sustainable development.
This year’s conference theme was "Creating a unified foundation for the Sustainable Development: research, practice and education". The focus was to find a common ground among the environmental, cultural, economic, and social dimensions through a holistic research perspective. The theme emphasised leveraging research results to lay down a strong foundation to inform our everyday practices, policies, and analytical approaches.
A number of delegates from the C2IMPRESS project presented nine research papers in the second session on the second day of the conference. The papers were discussed in two separate segments, which were respectively moderated by Prof. Joan Estrany (Director of RiscBal, Full Professor of Physical Geography, Department of Geography and INAGEA, University of the Balearic Islands) and Dr. Feroz Farazi (Research Associate at the University of Cambridge).
Each paper was discussed and presented by the co-authors. The participation at the 13th ICSD was a part of the C2IMPRESS project’s dissemination activities, as it has demonstrated the key publications in one of the most relevant and renowned public spheres. The papers that are presented by our consortium at the conference are as follows:
First Panel
Moderator: Prof. Joan Estrany
1. Enhancing Urban Resilience through Real-Time Social Media Analytics and Decision Support Tools: The C2IMPRESS Approach
Co-author: Cenk Güreken, Dr. Ayça Uysal Üner
In person participant: Cenk Güreken
2. Public-private-civil partnership approach for improving disaster risk management and resilience: application in Balearic Islands
Co-author: Alexandra Jaumouillé, Juliette Rimlinger, Dr. Catherine FREISSINET, Margarita Ribas Muntaner, Josué Díaz Jiménez, Alexandre Moragues, Antonio Bernat Girard, Juan Pol Pujol, Prof. Joan Estrany
In person participant: Alexandra Jaumouillé, Dr. Catherine FREISSINET, Margarita Ribas Muntaner, Alexandre Moragues, Prof. Joan Estrany
3. Evaluation of flash flood vulnerability scenarios in a population growing Mediterranean city: Palma (Balearic Islands, Spain)
Co-author: Alexandre Moragues, Dr. Maurici Ruiz Pérez, Margarita Ribas Muntaner, Prof. Joan Estrany
In person participant: Alexandre Moragues, Margarita Ribas Muntaner, Prof. Joan Estrany
4. Enhancing Disaster Evacuation Planning with Cognitive Agent-Based Models and Co-Creation
Co-author: Dr. Hossein Moradi, Dr. Rouba Iskandar, Dr. Sebastian Rodriguez, Dr. Dhirendra Singh, Prof. Julie Dudgale, Dr. Dimitrios Tzempelikos, Dr. Athanasios Sfetsos, Evangelia Bakogianni, Evrydiki Pavlidi, Josué Díaz, Margalida Ribas Muntaner, Alexandre Moragues, Prof. Joan Estrany
In person participant: Dr. Hossein Moradi, Margalida Ribas Muntaner, Alexandre Moragues, Prof. Joan Estrany
Second Panel
Moderator: Dr. Feroz Farazi
1. A semantic interoperability-enabled environmental digital twin for predicting coastal floods: Port of Figueira da Foz
Co-author: Dr. Feroz Farazi, Dr. Ana Catarina Zózimo, Dr. Md Hanif Seddiqui, Dr. Mohammad Azizur Rahman, Kollol Chakraborty, AL Hashemi Rafsan Jani, Rojab Khan, Dr. Jethro Akroyd, Dr. Sebastian Mosbach, Dr Liliana Pinheiro, Maria Manuel Cruz, Prof. Markus Kraft
In person participant: Dr. Feroz Farazi, Dr. Ana Catarina Zózimo
2. Overtopping at port breakwaters and navigation risk using long-term multi-model numerical simulations
Co-author: Dr. Rui Capitão, Dr. Liliana Pinheiro, Dr. Conceição J.E.M. Fortes, Dr. Ana Catarina Zózimo, Michelle Kleinjan
In person participant: Dr. Rui Capitão, Dr. Ana Catarina Zózimo
3. Multicriteria approach to define adequate areas for the implementation of Ecosystem-based Adaptation strategies
Co-author: Dr. Tiago Martins, Dr. Manuel Mendes Oliveira, Dr. Teresa Eira Leitão
In person participant: Dr. Manuel Mendes Oliveira
4. Governance Models and Community Resilience: Insights from the Portuguese Case Study under the C2IMPRESS Project
Co-author: Dr. João Lutas Craveiro, Dr. Ana Catarina Zózimo, Dr. Manuel Mendes Oliveira, Alexandra Jaumouillé, Juliette Rimlinger, Catherine FREISSINET
In person participant: Dr. Ana Catarina Zózimo, Dr. Manuel Mendes Oliveira, Alexandra Jaumouillé, Catherine FREISSINET
5. Demonstrating resilience to extreme events through the C2IMPRESS innovative solutions: The Egaleo case study
Co-author: Dr. Athanasios Sfetsos, Dr. Athanasios Papadopoulos, Ismini Galanopoulou, Evangelia Bakoganni
In person participant: Dr. Athanasios Papadopoulos, Ismini Galanopoulou, Evangelia Bakoganni
About ICSD
ECSDEV is an international, cross-disciplinary centre covering all aspects of the environmental impacts of socio-economic development, founded in Rome on February 10, 2010. The definition of sustainable development follows the Brundtland Commission (1987) as "development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs". Concerned with the composite interactions between development and environment, its purpose is to seek ways and means for achieving sustainability in all human activities aimed at such development. Coverage includes interactions among society, environment, and their implications. Research at ECSDEV is integrated with scholars in collaboration with faculties throughout European and Mediterranean universities. The relevance and validity of the research are enhanced through cooperation and agreements with academics and industry associates, with special attention to developing countries.
This project has received funding from the Horizon Europe Framework Programme (HORIZON) Research and Innovation Actions under grant agreement No 101074004