**5. Final Remarks from the RESCCUE Coordinator: Marc Velasco**

During the last four years, the RESCCUE project has been my life. For quite a long time, I have been repeating over and over one of the mottos of the project: cities are complex systems of interconnected systems. The RESCCUE consortium, with a varied canvas of partners from different worlds, has been exactly like a city, a complex system of interconnected entities. Managing this has been a challenging but very satisfying task, as we jointly managed to overcome all the problems that appeared along the way.

As you will see while reading this Special Issue, RESCCUE has been a challenging and successful project, that has only been possible due to the hard work of all people involved. I would like to take this opportunity to acknowledge the work and support from all my colleagues who worked in the project. RESCCUE project has been quite a journey for all of us, and I hope that it can also become something special to you.

Along the 4 years of the project, we have learnt that the only way to make our cities stronger and more prepared is by working together in a holistic and transversal way. This is why I would like to tell decision makers and urban service operators that you are not alone in this. Therefore, take advantage of all the work that we have done, so you do not have to start from square one. If you have not done it yet, now is the time to check the RESCCUE Toolkit, where you will be able to find the key RESCCUE results to replicate the work in your city.

What we have started in RESCCUE is only the beginning. Now it is time to pass on the baton, so you can move forward to transform your city to be more and more prepared for the coming challenges.

**Author Contributions:** M.V., has been the Coordinator of the RESCCUE Project and the main contributor to this Editorial. B.R. and E.M.-G., Work Package leaders of RESCCUE and editors of this Special Issue, have mainly contributed to Section 3 of this editorial, presenting the work included in this Special Issue. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.

**Funding:** This research was funded by Horizon2020 Programme, Grant Agreement No. 700174.

**Acknowledgments:** This Special Issue presents some of the results achieved in the framework of the RESCCUE project (Resilience to Cope with Climate Change in Urban Areas—a multisectoral approach focusing on water) (www.resccue.eu). RESCCUE is a research project funded by the European Commission under the H2020 program, and its main goal is to provide methodologies and tools for the evaluation, planning and management of urban resilience in the context of climate change.

**Conflicts of Interest:** The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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