Italy's National Research Center (CNR) will use Venice as a paradigm for Mediterranean coastal flooding, starting from extreme flooding in November 2019. The research will be conducted in collaboration with the University of Salerno and the University of Zagreb and will be financed through contributions from the Interreg Italia-Croatia STREAM and AdriaClim projects.

The intensity of the November 12, 2019 flooding that hit Venice and the coasts of the Northern Adriatic is due to the overlapping of different phenomena (tides, storms, an anomalous level of the Adriatic Sea, and the rapid passing of a cyclone) that, together, made for what was only a few centimeters under the worst flooding in the history of Venice, locally called Acqua Granda.