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Consortium

Six partners, five countries.

Hydraulic and coastal engineers, geophysicists, ecologists, economists and social scientists, coordinated by María Bermúdez at the University of Granada.

The EcoC2S consortium at its first in-person meeting, May 2026
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Partners

Complementary by design.

Expertise in the analysis and modelling of extreme hydrological events and their response to climate change, the valuation of coastal ecosystem services, new flood management paradigms, and policy analysis, risk perception and communication.

Management

Who steers the project.

  • Project CoordinatorMaría BermúdezUniversity of Granada
  • Scientific CoordinatorMiguel Ortega-SánchezUniversity of Granada
  • Stakeholders CoordinatorRui GasparUniversidade Lusófona
  • Pathways CoordinatorSebastián VillasanteUniversity of Santiago de Compostela
  • Compound Flood Drivers Lead (WP3)Maurizio BrocchiniUniversità Politecnica delle Marche

Team

The people behind EcoC2S.

University of Granada

  • María Bermúdez

    Project Coordinator · Principal Investigator · WP1 & WP4 leader

    Flood risk modelling and coastal compound flooding under climate change.

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  • Miguel Ortega-Sánchez

    Scientific Coordinator · Co-coordinator of the Water4All Knowledge Hub on Aquatic Ecosystem Services

    Coastal morphodynamics, estuaries and river mouths, and climate change impacts.

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  • Juan Del-Rosal-Salido

    Researcher

    Compound flood risk assessment and coastal climate hazards.

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  • Marcus Silva-Santana

    Researcher

    River mouth dynamics and Earth observation.

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  • Rodrigo J. Gonçalves

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  • Carmen Zarzuelo

    University of Seville

  • Alejandro López-Ruiz

    University of Seville

  • Vasilis Bellos

    Democritus University of Thrace (DUTH), Greece

Università Politecnica delle Marche

  • Maurizio Brocchini

    Principal Investigator (UNIVPM) · WP3 leader

    Coastal and estuarine hydrodynamics; sea–river interactions at the Misa River mouth.

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  • Matteo Postacchini

    Coastal and estuarine dynamics.

  • Francesco Fatone

    Water quality engineering.

  • Anna Laura Eusebi

    Environmental engineering and circular economy.

  • Lorenzo Melito

  • Dawit Meskele

Universidade Lusófona (COFAC – Cooperativa de Formação e Animação Cultural)

  • Rui Gaspar

    Principal Investigator (COFAC-ULus) · Stakeholders Coordinator · WP2 leader

    Perception of emerging risks, crisis communication and the science–policy interface.

  • Samuel Domingos

    Human assessment of, response to and resilience in extreme events.

  • Catarina Possidónio

    Sustainability transitions and the barriers to sustainable behaviour.

  • Ana Rita Farias

    Behavioural psychology and economics; co-designed behaviour-change interventions.

  • Jonathan Reese

Institute of Geophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences

  • Michael Nones

    Principal Investigator (IGF PAS) · WP5 leader

    Remote sensing and modelling of hydro-morphological change driven by extreme events.

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  • Iwona Kuptel-Markiewicz

    Statistical modelling of hydrological extremes and flood frequency analysis.

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University of Santiago de Compostela

  • Sebastián Villasante Larramendi

    Principal Investigator (USC) · Pathways Coordinator · WP6 leader · Head of the EqualSea Lab (CRETUS)

    Co-creation of visions and pathways for transformative change in social-ecological systems.

  • Amanda Stoltz

    Postdoctoral Researcher · EqualSea Lab (CRETUS)

    Social science of coastal resilience, environmental justice and sea-level rise adaptation.

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Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

  • Mario Franca

    Principal Investigator (KIT) · Head of Hydraulic Engineering, Institute of Water and Environment

    Flood risk, river hydro-morphodynamics, river engineering and restoration.

Collaborations

Working beyond the consortium.

  • Water4All Knowledge Hub on Aquatic Ecosystem Services

    Joint work with the other projects of the 2023 call; scientifically co-coordinated by EcoC2S.

  • REWRITE (Horizon Europe)

    Our sister project in the Bay of Cádiz, with whom we joined the local multi-actor lab in April 2026.

  • NAWA–DAAD joint project

    IGF PAS and KIT collaborate on exposure and vulnerability to floods in riverine–coastal zones exposed to compound flooding.

  • Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

    Co-authors of the compound flood potential index and of the sea-level rise study for the Spanish Mediterranean coast.