"The project entitled “Economic dimension of volunteering in sport” (EVIS) is designed to support public authorities and sport governing bodies to formulate policies and programmes aimed at tackling issues in the European sport systems. The end goal of the project is to support evidence-based policy-making in sport and improve good governance in the sport sector in order to increase the social utility of sport in the European Union. The project will contribute to the objectives of the Europe 2020 Strategy, as well as to the sustainable goals of the European Commission presented in the Reflection paper: ""Towards a sustainable Europe by 2030"".Science is pivotal to good policy-making. Based on the scientific expertise and competences within the EVIS project’s team, as well as on the consultations with key stakeholders, the EVIS project aims to ensure that the best scientific advice possible informs policy development.The EVIS project team is going to develop a harmonised methodology on measuring the economic impact of volunteering in sport, use it to conduct the survey in EU-8 in order to produce evidence-based recommendations to policy-makers, and organise two regional consultative conferences to gain feedback from key stakeholders and inform the main project’s output entitled “Study on economic dimension of volunteering in sport”. With the support of the European Commission, the Croatian Olympic Committee will continue to coordinate projects involving scientists and key stakeholders in the sport sector with knowledge and competences to contribute to the science-based evidence that informs policy-makers and provides support in the EU sport policy area."

The warming of the climate system is unequivocal and continued emission of greenhouse gases will cause further warming and changes. Islands are particularly vulnerable to Climate Change (CC) consequences but the coarse spatial resolution of available projections makes it difficult to derive valid statements for islands. Moreover, science-based information about the economic impacts of CC in marine and maritime sectors is scarce, and current economic models lack of solid non-market assesment. Policy makers must have accurate information about likely impact chains and about the costs and benefits of possible strategies to implement efficient measures. SOCLIMPACT aims at modelling downscaled CC effects and their socioeconomic impacts in European islands for 2030–2100, in the context of the EU Blue Economy sectors, and assess corresponding decarbonisation and adaptation pathways, complementing current available projections for Europe, and nourishing actual economic models with non-market assessment, by: • Developing a thorough understanding on how CC will impact the EU islands located in different regions of the world. • Contributing to the improvement of the economic valuation of climate impacts by adopting revealed and stated preference methods. • Increasing the effectiveness of the economic modelling of climate impact chains, through the implementation of an integrated methodological framework (GINFORS, GEM-E3 and non-market indicators). • Facilitating climate-related policy decision making for Blue Growth, by ranking and mapping the more appropriate mitigation and adaptation strategies. • Delivering accurate information to policy makers, practitioners and other relevant stakeholders. SOCLIMPACT addresses completely this Work Programme providing advances in the economic valuation of climate-induced impacts, and in climate and economic models, allowing downscaled projections of complex impact chains, and facilitating the resilience capacity of these vulnerable lands.