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View all »Empowering Youth And Cocreating Social Innovations And Policymaking Through Youth-focused Citizen Social Science
YOUCOUNT aims to generate new knowledge and innovations to increase the social inclusion of youth at risk of exclusion across Europe through cocreative youth citizen social science (CSS).
More...Collaborative Agri-food Chains
Driving Innovation in Territorial Food Systems and Improving Outcomes for Producers and Consumers.
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View all »Sustainable food systems not addicted to growth – paper with Bálint Balázs in Nature Sustainability
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The global food system is Exhibit A in the crisis of growth-addicted development. Exploitative of humans and animals, ecologically rapacious, hooked on fossil fuels, and controlled by a small number of multi-national corporations from food to fork, this system produces massive quantities of the wrong foods at incredible social, ecological and economic cost. With food crises again looming on the near horizon, a strategy to tweak and maintain the current growth-driven food system is highly questionable. In a new perspective paper published in Nature Sustainability, a team of 32 food system scholars provide the blueprint for something very different: sustainable post-growth food systems. Our senior researcher, Bálint Balázs is one of the authors.
More...YouCount team hold the first physical meeting in Copenhagen
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ESSRG’s YouCount project has successfully arrived at the mid-period. Consortium members met in Copenhagen (Denmark) in June for the first time to move the project forward and share research results across the 10 case studies, including the two Hungarian cases.
More...New Living Library showcases collaborative short food chains across Europe
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A living library showcasing good-practice examples of collaborative short food chains has today been launched by a consortium of organisations, under the three-year, EU-funded COACH project. This living library includes more than 30 concrete examples of how collaboration between farmers, consumers, local governments and other actors can help to scale up short agri-food chains, in order to rebalance farmers’ position in the chain, create win-wins for producers and consumers, and drive locally led innovation in territorial food systems.
More...Empowering communities, inspiring citizen science
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InSPIRES brought together practitioners and experts from across and beyond Europe to co-design, jointly pilot, implement, and roll out innovative models for Science Shops. We launched several Science Shop projects to reflect on participatory research models and strengthen communication between scientists and citizens to provide input on the research agenda over the next years.
More...Interview with Eszter Kelemen and her peers in the EuroNatur Magazin
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Last October, the IPBES community of more than 1,000 researchers received the EuroNatur Award 2021. On their behalf, our senior resercher, Eszter Kelemen accepted the award with marine ecologist, Dr. Yunne-Jai Shin (France), and German environmental scientist and agricultural biologist Prof. Josef Settele. In an interview, the three scientists talk about why they are full of hope despite the alarming state of the Earth.
More...What’s next for Citizen Science?
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After 3 years of intense work and co-creation of the platform, the EU-Citizen.Science project has come to an end at the end of 2021. ESSRG, as a founding organisation of the European Citizen Science Association, has contributed to the content development and dissemination of the EU-Citizen Science platform.
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