Cooperative and participatory research from the passersby to solidarity action
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ESSRG facilitated a number of Science Shop processes in recent years. Here are six inspirative examples from the currently running projects.
More...ESSRG’s experts participated in the “Moving Dialogue Online” workshop series
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In the extraordinary year of 2020, we should have swiftly adapted to countless new things: wearing a mask, creative handshakes, quarantine rules, and quickly shifting work that went entirely onto virtual platforms. The tech industry had poured on us thousands of novel platforms and digital tools – such as Zoom, Miro, Mural, Padlet etc. – which were very useful in managing our projects online but some work-related challenges remained unanswered.
More...InVisible Green – Participatory project for equal access to nature experience
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Nature experiences contribute substantially to our mental and physical well-being. Exposure to any form of nature is proven to lower stress, has a restorative effect on our neurological and hormonal system.
More...CONECT-e: Petra Benyei’s workshop on the citizen science innovation in agroecology
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On the 24th of November, Petra Benyei (PhD. in Environmental Sciences at UAB, 2020) was invited by ESSRG’s researchers, Alexandra Czeglédi and Borbála Lipka, to introduce the Spanish citizen science platform called CONECT-e in an internal workshop. Participants from ESSRG and the Hungarian Seed House (Magház), Védegylet and the Hungarian Permaculture Association (MAPER) joined her on Zoom.
More...We made a podcast series about biodiversity!
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The episodes are about the decline of pollinator populations, transformative change for sustainability, nature-based solutions in cities, ecological restoration, the Common Agricultural Policy of the EU, and about Eklipse Mechanism itself.
More...How much is nature worth?
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The Greenfo podcast features our senior research fellow Eszter Kelemen. Eszter spoke about ecosystem services and the value of a healthy environment, the impacts of COVID on resetting political and economic processes, the postnormal science and citizen science.
More...Humans are made cooperative, not competitive – any chance for a paradigm shift?
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The Forbes June online edition features our Senior Research Fellow, György Pataki.
More...Eastern Europe as a source of food inspiration
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Must we choose between formal market and non-market economies? This is the longstanding Western narrative. But Eastern European food practices tell a different story. Bálint Balázs, co-author of a new paper that points to tried-and-tested alternatives to the West’s broken food systems.
More...Seed-swap in Hungary
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Seed exchange is an ancient practice to protect genetic diversity in agriculture. In the last years, the industrialization process led to a constant decrease of agrobiodiversity.
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