Ongoing Projects
Crop Wild Relatives utilisation for sustainable agriculture
Crop Wild Relatives can contribute to providing more diverse, sustainable, and nutritious food.
More...Validating the ecosystem benefits of legumes
Will legume cropping across Europe reach the minimum thresholds necessary to optimise sustainable production?
More...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.
More...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.
More...Better decisions for biodiversity and people
Understand and influence decision-making affecting biodiversity.
More...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.
More...Ecologically sustainable nutrient management
Several innovative technologies will be deployed to reduce fertiliser use by at least 20% by 2030.
More...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.
More...Mitigating climate-induced health threats
We explore the linkage between climate, health and ecosystems and use this knowledge to advance societal uptake.
More...Food systems changes for healthy dietary behaviour
We explore factors influencing dietary behaviour and dietary patterns' health, environmental and socio-economic impacts.
More...Integrated urban food policies
We seek for urban food environments that make ecological food available, affordable and attractive to all citizens.
More...Realising dynamic value chains for underutilised crops
We will explore opportunities and overcome barriers for underutilised crops (UCs) via European dynamic value chains.
More...Collaborative agri-food chains
Driving innovation in territorial food systems and improving outcomes for producers and consumers.
More...Past Projects
Empowering youth and cocreating social innovations
Empowering youth and cocreating social innovations and policymaking through youth-focused citizen social science
More...Co-create change in research funding and performing
We support the implementation of RRI-related institutional changes.
More...Better contracts for farmers and nature
Better targeted policy instruments can increase the capacity of agriculture to provide environmental public goods.
More...EU-Citizen.Science
Citizen Science is a rapidly diversifying field of innovation with implications and potential benefits for society, policy and various research areas.
More...FIT4FOOD2030
Future-proofing the European food systems through Research & Innovation toward #Food2030EU.
More...DYNAVERSITY
Conservation of Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture is an arena populated by different and composite players.
More...InSPIRES
InSPIRES will strengthen communication between scientists and citizens to provide input on the research agenda over the next years.
More...SciCafe 2.0
SciCafe 2.0 aimed to support participative exchange and knowledge co-generation between researchers and the public.
More...OpenNESS
OpenNESS aimed to translate the concepts of Natural Capital and Ecosystem Services into operational frameworks.
More...TRANSIT
We are developing a theory on Transformative Social Innovation, involving new ways of doing, organizing, framing, and/or knowing.
More...PERARES
PERARES aimed to strengthen interaction in formulating research agendas between researchers and Civil Society Organizations (CSOs).
More...TRUE
TRUE will identify and enable transition paths to sustainable legume-based systems and agri-feed and -food chains in Europe.
More...QuESSA
QuESSA aimed to quantify the key semi-natural habitats providing essential ecosystem services.
More...FotRRIS
FotRRIS is a transition experiment project to explore pathways toward Responsible Research and Innovation.
More...Sparks
Sparks is an awareness-raising project to show Europeans that they can get involved in science and innovation.
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