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Projects
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).
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Driving Innovation in Territorial Food Systems and Improving Outcomes for Producers and Consumers.
More...Co-Create Change in Research Funding and Performing
Co-Change will apply an innovative systemic approach to boost the transformative capacity and leadership for research.
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Agriculture can deliver a variety of environmental public goods and ecosystem services. Often, however, the use of agricultural landscapes prioritizes the provision of private goods which also contributes to environmental degradation. To address this imbalance, targeted policy instruments are required to ensure that public goods are provided at the level desired by society.
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View all »Easy Peasy Legume Recipes for kids
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Black-eyed bean salad with tuna, scottish lentil soup or apple chickpea cake – just a couple of very easy recipes from our legume cookbook.
Legumes, or „pulses“ are a cheap and environmentally friendly alternative to animal protein, providing several micro- and macronutrients. However, while beans, lentils and Co. have always been enjoying great popularity in oriental and North African countries, the consumption in Europe does not comply with the nutritional recom – mendations. With this book we aim to raise the popularity of legumes among children and their parents by showing how easily delicious legume dishes can be prepared.
More...EU-Citizen.Science platform provides a myriad of opportunities to circulate knowledge on citizen science
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ESSRG, as one of the Third Party members, contributes to the content development and dissemination of the EU-Citizen Science platform across Hungary. The platform offers opportunities to learn more about citizen science, build professional networks and contribute to the knowledge hub of the citizen science community across Europe.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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