We are a research & development enterprise working on the boundaries of environmental and social sciences with a transdisciplinary approach.
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Rewarding farmers for environmental public goods
How can innovative agri-environmental contracts support farmers and nature at the same time?
More...Nature-based scaling approaches for just transformative change
How nature-based solutions (NbS) can be scaled up in a fair and just way?
More...Transforming Urban Food Systems in Europe and Central Asia
Identifying key challenges and the role of municipalities in transforming agri-food systems.
More...Sustainable Forests in the Face of a Changing Climate
Develop solutions to protect biodiversity and enhance the resilience of forest ecosystems.
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Small-Scale Food Interventions in Budapest
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We have prepared a brief overview of Budapest’s small-scale, real-life interventions under the FoodCLIC Project. This publication serves as an executive action guide and policy showcase designed primarily for municipal leaders, district decision-makers, urban planners, and civil partners.
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We have prepared a workbook for local governments
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We developed the textbook What Ends Up on Our Tables? – A workbook for local governments to transform local food systems to help reflect on what a local government can do these days when it comes to food and nutrition, even with small investments. The workbook is in Hungarian and provides questions and frameworks with which decision-makers and municipal staff can assemble their own city’s strategy and set their food system on a more sustainable path both environmentally and socially.
More...Healing Garden video
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As part of the COEVOLVERS Project we joined forces with the Magház Association, and the Boldog Gellért Hospital to draw up a plan, through a participatory process, to transform the hospital garden into a healing garden, and to take the first steps towards implementing this plan.
More...We developed nature-based solutions comic strips
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In the COEVOLVERS Project, we developed a series of comic strips in collaboration with a professional illustrator to translate the project’s core, complex theoretical concepts — such as coevolution, affordances, multispecies democracy, and caring with nature— into easy-to-absorb messages.
More...Bridging Communities and Code: What We Learned at the PLAN’EAT–WiseFood Webinar
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On 10 September 2026, ESSRG brought together two EU-funded research projects – PLAN’EAT and WiseFood – for a lunchtime webinar on Digital Tools and Community Action for Healthy, Sustainable Food Systems. The session focused on a simple but important question: how do community-based approaches and digital solutions work together, not just alongside each other, in the transition to healthier, more sustainable diets?
More...Strengthening regional networks while reducing our travel footprint: a great week in Kraków at the Degrowth Conference
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A large team of ESSRG researchers attended the ‘Degrowth: bridging green and just in Central and Eastern Europe’ conference, held from 16 to 19 June in Kraków, Poland.
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