This critical step in the climate adaptation journey involves co-developing a shared vision with stakeholders. Active engagement is essential for creating commitment and ownership of the process and vision. This co-created vision will be a tool for mobilizing change and holding regional stakeholders accountable. It must be holistic, combining scientific insights with community priorities to foster a sustainable and equitable future. Adaptation strategies should prioritize the most vulnerable populations, ensuring social equity. Leveraging traditional knowledge and modern technology, the vision aims for proactive resilience through robust infrastructure, diversified economies, and resilient agriculture. It also encourages innovation to reduce the carbon footprint and enhance adaptive capacity. Public-private partnerships will be key to mobilizing resources and driving large-scale innovation. Ultimately, the vision must be dynamic, evolving with climate changes and lessons learned, and calls for courage, collaboration, and commitment from all sectors to protect our planet for future generations.

Pathways for climate adaptation and resilience gather interventions across multiple levers of change in a portfolio of actions, each of them contributing to progress towards the desired pathway. Pathways ensure efforts align with overarching shared vision and activities, output and outcomes are prioritized and sequenced over time, and the overall process is rooted in a theory of change that delineates how and why the desired transformation occurs. Therefore, they should entail clear plans and commitments that guide and enable the innovation and policy actions.

The defined pathways and plans are actualized through the implementation of the innovative place-based tailored solutions to increase climate change adaptation capacity in the Demonstrating Regions. Technological, social and financial innovation will be combined through a multi-dimensional portfolio of solutions tested for their effectiveness through an iterative process that includes continuous monitoring and evaluation. Moreover, action for just transition by co-creating and deploying innovative forms of engagement and governance is taken. To enhance momentum for climate-resilient investments and regional financial risk strategies reducing climate-related loss and damage. DesirMED will unlock and mobilise finance and resources. To better coordinate action and facilitate solution uptake from region to region and from regions to European research agendas, a community of practice (CoP) is set up.

Learning from and reflecting on the activities implemented during the various steps of the journey is crucial for achieving replicability and mainstreaming. The transformation will be accelerated by building capacity for regional actors through participatory sensemaking from demonstrated solutions, cross-fertilisation and peer-to-peer learning among DR&RRs. The process involves delivering tailored capacity-building modules focused on systemic innovation fundamentals, collaboration, and solution deployment. All learning and regional transferability trends will be consolidated into tangible new materials and processes that can be used to mainstream the capacity-building impact across the Med and beyond, serving as a permanent reference for regions seeking climate resilience transformation.