It is a four year project that has started in October 2021. The LOCALISED consortium encompasses 12 partners from 6 countries: Germany, Austria, Italy, The Netherlands, Poland, and Spain.

The overall objective of LOCALISED is to downscale national decarbonization trajectories consistent with Europe's net-zero target to the local levels and provide the results to local authorities, citizens and businesses, in a way that would speed up the uptake of mitigation and adaptation actions. To this end, the project will create effective and clearly understandable tools that transform localised data on possible decarbonisation pathways by 2030 and 2050 into knowledge for action, namely: (1) the Decarbonisation Profiler for municipalities, regions and their citizens, providing information in all 24 EU languages, and (2) the Net-Zero Business Consultant tool. The tools will allow local authorities and policy-makers as well as citizens and businesses to identify viable combinations and best practices of (sectoral) mitigation and adaptation measures for every NUTS3 region on how to reach the goals of the downscaled pathways and to introduce an adapted-to-case service for implementation and monitoring of Sustainable Energy and Climate Action Plans (SECAPs). The project will additionally engage with EU citizen groups to inform them how climate change and different EU net-zero scenarios positively and negatively affect their lives and what share of mitigation can be enhanced via key behavioural change.

We will mainly work on one work package (WP4: Cross-sectoral mitigation and adaptation on the regional level) and contribute to almost all other). Hereafter, a description of WP4:

WP4's general objective: to turn disaggregated mitigation targets per regions into feasible cross-sectoral mitigation options and to calculate adaptation needs and feasibility, based on regional climate change impact, risk and vulnerability evaluations as well as existing climate governance modes and adaptation-mitigation co-benefits. The core topic of WP4 is to connect mitigation scenarios and pathways with climate change impacts and adaptation needs on the regional level.

Your tasks include contributing to:

1. developing a comprehensive database of potential adaptation and mitigation measures in European regions. The measures will cover the areas of regional, municipal, individual and business actions;
2. combining suitable cross-sectoral combinations of measures in order to reach regional mitigation targets. WP4 will define requirements for the suitability of measures for certain regions leading to best practices dependent on the social and cultural context;

3 identifying climate change impacts, risks and vulnerabilities per region based on mitigation trajectories/ scenarios, and to develop innovative adaptation options based on climate analogues/ twin cities combined with feasibility assessments and adaptation and mitigation co-benefits.

The UT team will lead WP4 and is mainly working on Tasks 1 and 3 building on existing work of downscaling regional (NUTS3-level) risk and vulnerability assessments and adaptation and mitigation measures in European regions and cities.

You should have:

• A strong interest in climate change, climate change impacts, adaptation and mitigation;
• An MSc degree in Environmental Studies, Environmental Engineering, Geography, Spatial Planning, or similar, with a strong inter- and transdisciplinary background.
• A proven interest in inter- and transdisciplinary work
• Experience with both qualitative (social science methods such as surveys and interviews, involving stakeholders, etc..) and quantitative research methods (statistics, statistical modelling)
• Experience in GIS and remote sensing, preferably open software applications.
• Excellent oral and written English language skills.
• Interest to work in an international environment.
• Willingness to travel across Europe for stakeholder meetings and field work.

We offer you an inspiring multidisciplinary and challenging international and academic environment. The university offers a dynamic ecosystem with enthusiastic colleagues in which internationalisation is an important part of the strategic agenda. We offer a position for a period of four years. Salary and conditions will be in accordance with the Collective Labor Agreement (CAO-NU) of the Dutch Universities.

• A starting salary of € 2,434.00 in the first year and a salary of € 3,111.00 in the fourth year gross per month;
• A holiday allowance of 8% of the gross annual salary and a year-end bonus of 8.3%;
• A solid pension scheme;
• Minimum of 41 holiday days in case of full-time employment;
• Professional and personal development programs;
• Costs for moving to Enschede may be reimbursed.

The Department of Urban and Regional Planning and Geo Information Management (PGM) of the University of Twente's Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation works on the linkage of geospatial technologies with both Urban Planning & Management and Land Administration. The department takes the role of people as central in all development and research processes and looks at governance decisions for the sustainable future of urban regions and their hinterlands. The work of the department concentrates on both, the Global North and South, with a particular focus on the global South, while being highly related to global challenges as described in the SDGs.