Governance and Business Models for Living Labs: Tackling Soil Health Challenges
GOV4ALL envisions a Mediterranean region where people, nature, and soil thrive. Degraded lands shall be transformed through co-creating sustainable change in 5 Living Labs. BFH is contributing to two work packages by co-producing videos.
Factsheet
- Schools involved School of Agricultural, Forest and Food Sciences
- Institute(s) Knowledge Systems and Knowledge Sharing
- Research unit(s) Knowledge Systems and Knowledge Sharing
- Funding organisation Europäische Union
- Duration (planned) 01.06.2024 - 30.11.2028
- Head of project Prof. Dr. Patricia Elizabeth Fry
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Project staff
Dr. Léa Klaue
Prof. Dr. Patricia Elizabeth Fry - Keywords Soil health, Living Labs, governance, business models, Mediterranean, videos
Situation
In this EU-Horizon project 36 partners from 7 countries are working together during 54 months with a 12 Million Euro Budget. The countries are: ES, GR, NL, FR, CH, RS. GOV4ALL builds on 5 multi actor Living Labs: Solvi'Terra in France, Aegean and Thyrea in Greece as well as Altiplano Estepario and Menorca in Spain.
Course of action
The consortium works in 5 work packages and is coordinated by the Spanish company SAE Innova: WP1 Living Lab governance for participatory processes WP2 Rural Regeneration Hubs: from problems to solutions WP 3 Co-designing, monitoring and validating soil health practices WP4 Sharing knowledge ready for practice WP5 Sharing knowledge ready for practice – coordination and communication BFH is active in the WP 3, 4 and 5 and has an overarching role between the Living Labs. BFH will lead the execution of the Social Learning Video methodology and will bring in specific expertise as intermediaries between natural and social science, as moderators of Multi Stakeholder groups and specialists concerning transformation knowledge of farmers.
Looking ahead
Envisioned outcomes: Increased soil literacy and multi-actor awareness. Strengthened capacity of cooperation to tackle soil health challenges. Support for identifying and scaling up sustainable soil management. Reliable soil data is available to facilitate timely interventions. More broadly understood soil health indicators. Increased regional appetite for farming innovation. Solutions for soil health challenges are more easily identified and tested. Facilitated policy interventions to favour regional soil regeneration. Validated information on best management of soils in the Mediterranean.
