The 2026 Systems Innovation Learning Partnership (SILP) Festival will take place on the 10th and 11th of March. It is a collaborative learning space hosted by Climate KIC and Sida (Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency), created for people working in the messy reality of systems change.

It exists because many of the challenges we face (climate, social, economic) are complex, relational, and constantly shifting, while the way we often fund, organise, and measure change still assumes certainty, control, and linear progress.

Sessions will take place online from 10:00-12:30 on Day 1 and from 10:00-12:30 on Day 2.

You can register for either one or both days via the following link. 

Day 1: Climate narratives in action: Attention, trust, and imagining alternative futures

Day 1 centres on analysing climate storytelling across sectors. Participants will examine:

• Where dominant climate narratives originate
• How they influence public attention, trust, and political will
• How they shape (or limit) the range of futures people consider possible

Bringing together perspectives from fields such as comedy, film production, economics, and other disciplines, the session will explore how different storytelling formats and inherited narratives are used to:

• Capture and retain public attention
• Influence attitudes and behaviour
• Make abstract climate futures tangible and relatable
• Build collective momentum for climate action

The goal is to move from abstract discussion to a clearer understanding of how narrative strategies can be intentionally designed to support meaningful climate engagement.

Day 2: In-between Spaces: Intermediaries rethinking funding practices

Day 2 marks the launch of the Rethinking Intermediaries Series report (premiering at the festival) — a futures-oriented learning paper shaped through shared inquiry with intermediary funders and ecosystem support organisations navigating this liminal space.

Together, we will explore live cases of experimental funding and relational practice, opening generative conversations around:
The friction and possibility of working across worlds
What experimentation looks like when outcomes are emergent
How intermediaries are developing new capabilities for stewarding complexity

This is not a space designed to eliminate tension.

It is a space to sit with it, sense into it, and deepen our collective understanding of how to move within it.

Register for one or both days via the following link.  

This final report summarises the results of the actions to support the Mission Board for “Adaptation to Climate Change, including Societal Transformation” with forward-looking evidence.

In accordance with the Request, the proposed services, approaches to be adopted, and the concrete nature and form of the outputs have been shaped and validated through close interaction with the Mission Board (MB) via the Mission Secretariat, run by relevant European Commission (EC) services, throughout the implementation of the action.

As a result of the interactions with the Mission Secretariat, the following actions were taken:

1. Preparing a short paper Input to Mission Board on scoping activities & tasks
   (Deliverable 1)
2. Analysing national and regional funding programmes of selected countries for
   projects on Climate Change Adaptation, and conducting interviews with selected
   Mission Board members in preparation of a foresight workshop.
3. Preparing an input paper for the foresight workshop Input Document FoD CCA
   Workshop, 23 January 2020 (Deliverable 2).
4. Holding a foresight workshop (23 January 2020) with Mission Board members,
   European Commission representatives (Mission Secretariat), and foresight experts,
   and summarising the results of the workshop. The workshop served to identify
   barriers and solutions, enablers and impacts of climate change adaptation in a variety
   of thematic fields, including health, water, food and agriculture.
5. Developing and implementing a Delphi survey on assessing key aspects of the draft
   paper of the Mission Board. The survey addressed climate experts. They assessed
   future targets in thematic fields (e.g. financial risks, health, social infrastructure), and
   ranked related measures and R&I fields for importance.
6. Preparing and analysing the results of the Delphi survey: Delphi Survey results,
   July/August 2020 (Deliverables 3 and 4).

The report is structured along these deliverables.