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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.
More...Innovative solutions for amplifying biodiversity and equity
How can social, economic, and political processes be transformed to simultaneously support biodiversity and equity?
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Nature and Mental Health: Gardens and Other Spaces for Healing
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The Healing Garden Living Lab of the COEVOLVERS project will join the week of New European Bauhaus Festival by organising its final events on 11 and 12 June, 2026. In the morning of 11 June, a guided tour in the healing garden of the Boldog Gellért Psychiatric Hospital will be organised. Participants will be invited to join the hospital’s garden coordinator and the landscape architects who produced the a healing garden master plan based on a 3-year long multispecies participatory process. After the garden walk, a nature- based creative session is offered to participants facilitated by the hospital’s art therapeutist and the visual researcher of the project.
More...What Will Be on the Plate of the Future? – PLAN’EAT Finale
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The Budapest LL’s PLAN’EAT project closing event was held on March 27–28, 2026. The two-day event—“The Plate of the Future – PLAN’EAT Festival”—brought together food system actors: researchers, producers, experts in public catering and policy, civil society organizations, and a broader professional audience and citizens.
More...Permaculture in Urban Food Systems
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Although more and more people are becoming aware of and learning about permaculture, it is still not widely known and is surrounded by many misconceptions. As researchers, we are encountering permaculture increasingly frequently, whether in food system research or nature-based solutions research. This is why we decided to interview István Lőrinczi, a permaculture designer and trainer about the basics of permaculture and its transformative potential in urban food systems.
More...The PLANET4B project has come to an end – and several new beginnings
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After three years of intense and rewarding work, the PLANET4B Project has come to an end. It was a European research collaboration of 16 partners that investigated how behaviours and decisions affecting biodiversity are shaped and how they can be changed to serve both the environment and people. Read our summary here.
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Let everyone enjoy birdsong! – Inclusive nature experiences for partially sighted people
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New publication by Barbara Mihók and Anna Mária Ballai in Hungarian.
In our research, ‘Invisible Green’, we explored what truly helps make nature accessible for people with visual impairments. Through interviews, group discussions, and field programs, one message became clear: nature is a multi-sensory, personal experience – but only if we create the right conditions for it. Safety, autonomy, empathy, accessible spaces, and clear support protocols all matter. If we want inclusive nature experiences, we must design them with the people who use them — not just for them.
More...RADIANT delivered policy insights for diversified agri-food systems
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The European Horizon 2020 project RADIANT has reached its formal conclusion, culminating in a highly productive review meeting held today. Coordinated by Universidade Católica Portuguesa, the project brought together 29 partners across 12 countries (including FAO) and mobilised a broad, multi-actor network of researchers, value-chain actors, farmers, and consumers.
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