The Coastal Resilience & Adaptation Ecosystem
A Supercharged Innovation Ecosystem
This GO Virginia-funded economic initiative creates a Coastal Resilience and Adaptation Ecosystem in Virginia’s Middle Peninsula region, functioning as a living laboratory and support system for developing technologies designed to protect coastal communities. The project is focused on establishing public-private partnerships between businesses and state universities to design and test resilience solutions under real-world conditions on a network of donated, publicly-owned coastal properties managed by the Middle Peninsula • Chesapeake Bay Public Access Authority.
How Does it Work?
- Businesses are selected through a challenge competition hosted by RISE Resilience Innovations.
- Winning projects are then matched to university partners through a competitive process administered by Virginia Sea Grant.
- The business and university teams work together to find a suitable test site within the Middle Peninsula • Chesapeake Bay Public Access Authority’s portfolio of available properties and begin the process of testing their resilience design technologies.
- Local companies are subcontracted to provide services to assist with installation and site preparation.
- Business and university teams have two years of funding and support from the project partners to complete their work.