Ongoing Projects

Crop Wild Relatives utilisation for sustainable agriculture

Crop Wild Relatives can contribute to providing more diverse, sustainable, and nutritious food.

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Validating the ecosystem benefits of legumes

Will legume cropping across Europe reach the minimum thresholds necessary to optimise sustainable production?

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Joined-up land use strategies tackling climate change and biodiversity loss

Urgent and concerted action can stop and reverse unsustainable land use and the over-exploitation of land resources.

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Towards resilient European forests

Building the ForestWard Observatory, a pan-European monitoring and evaluation tool, to demonstrate climate change impacts on forests and to guide decision-making for better forest management.

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Better decisions for biodiversity and people

Understand and influence decision-making affecting biodiversity.

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Nature-based solutions for more inclusive and resilient communities

We explore how nature-based solutions can contribute to the societal change needed to address the biodiversity and climate crisis.

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Ecologically sustainable nutrient management

Several innovative technologies will be deployed to reduce fertiliser use by at least 20% by 2030.

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Science Service for a better biodiversity policy

The loss of biodiversity might be the most severe and complex natural challenge we face in our lifetime.

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Mitigating climate-induced health threats

We explore the linkage between climate, health and ecosystems and use this knowledge to advance societal uptake.

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Food systems changes for healthy dietary behaviour

We explore factors influencing dietary behaviour and dietary patterns' health, environmental and socio-economic impacts.

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Integrated urban food policies

We seek for urban food environments that make ecological food available, affordable and attractive to all citizens.

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Realising dynamic value chains for underutilised crops

We will explore opportunities and overcome barriers for underutilised crops (UCs) via European dynamic value chains.

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Collaborative agri-food chains

Driving innovation in territorial food systems and improving outcomes for producers and consumers.

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Past Projects

Empowering youth and cocreating social innovations

Empowering youth and cocreating social innovations and policymaking through youth-focused citizen social science

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Co-create change in research funding and performing

We support the implementation of RRI-related institutional changes.

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Better contracts for farmers and nature

Better targeted policy instruments can increase the capacity of agriculture to provide environmental public goods.

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EU-Citizen.Science

Citizen Science is a rapidly diversifying field of innovation with implications and potential benefits for society, policy and various research areas.

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FIT4FOOD2030

Future-proofing the European food systems through Research & Innovation toward #Food2030EU.

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DYNAVERSITY

Conservation of Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture is an arena populated by different and composite players.

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InSPIRES

InSPIRES will strengthen communication between scientists and citizens to provide input on the research agenda over the next years.

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SciCafe 2.0

SciCafe 2.0 aimed to support participative exchange and knowledge co-generation between researchers and the public.

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OpenNESS

OpenNESS aimed to translate the concepts of Natural Capital and Ecosystem Services into operational frameworks.

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TRANSIT

We are developing a theory on Transformative Social Innovation, involving new ways of doing, organizing, framing, and/or knowing.

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CLIMSAVE

CLIMSAVE aimed to assess the climate policy of European countries.

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PERARES

PERARES aimed to strengthen interaction in formulating research agendas between researchers and Civil Society Organizations (CSOs).

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TRUE

TRUE will identify and enable transition paths to sustainable legume-based systems and agri-feed and -food chains in Europe.

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EKLIPSE

EKLIPSE aims to bring stakeholders together to ensure that decisions that affect the environment are made with the best available knowledge.

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QuESSA

QuESSA aimed to quantify the key semi-natural habitats providing essential ecosystem services.

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FotRRIS

FotRRIS is a transition experiment project to explore pathways toward Responsible Research and Innovation.

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Sparks

Sparks is an awareness-raising project to show Europeans that they can get involved in science and innovation.

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