The phrase "and adapt the existing" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing modifications or changes to something that is already in place, such as a plan, system, or document.
Example: "We need to review our current strategy and adapt the existing framework to better meet our goals."
Alternatives: "modify the current" or "revise the existing".
Rather, it will be necessary to spot, nurture, harness and adapt the existing talent in your own and partner organisations.
Start with the most prevalent or most important issues and adapt the existing call center script.
We need to bring in a new class of players on the playing field of technology who will create new technology exclusively for solving social problems and adapt the existing technology for the same purpose, without any thought of making personal profit out of this.
The project will extend and adapt the existing approaches and tools of the Nigerian Urban Reproductive Health Initiative (NURHI 2) and tailor interventions to address the potential of private providers to better deliver family planning services to new mothers and to create demand for those services.
It is important to consider approaches for more open and participatory learning through basically applying and adapting the existing technologies and social networks such as weblogs (blogs), wikis or other popular social networks like Facebook or Twitter.
"These companies and their legal teams have to find ways to be creative and to adapt the existing laws to the electronic age we live in," Joseph Campbell, a former assistant director of the FBI's Criminal Investigative Division, told me.
The objective is to check which 'passive-dosing method' will be best to perform aquatic biotests and if needed, to adapt the existing methods to the tests.
This paper describes the development and application of an approach to adapt the existing flood defences along the Dutch Wadden Sea coast to the effects of climate change and sea level rise in the context of other uncertainties and developments.
A group of local experts will adapt the existing program and create exercises to help young people develop critical thinking skills they can use to analyze information provided by the media.
A development group (consisting of frontline general practitioners (GPs), a practice manager educator, clinical and health psychologists, GP educators and QI experts) adapted the existing selection criteria 13 14 by applying similar validation methods to those used for generating Never Events 17 to make them more relevant and feasible for Scottish primary care settings.
Adapting the existing building and expanding it with a sensitively designed annex with multi-deck parking would simultaneously accomplish a number of important goals: It would fulfill the court's spatial and functional requirements, while maintaining its prominence in the civic corridor and its proximity to police headquarters.
