Small-Scale Food Interventions in Budapest
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We have prepared a brief overview of Budapest’s small-scale, real-life interventions under the FoodCLIC Project. This publication serves as an executive action guide and policy showcase designed primarily for municipal leaders, district decision-makers, urban planners, and civil partners.
More...We have prepared a workbook for local governments
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We developed the textbook What Ends Up on Our Tables? – A workbook for local governments to transform local food systems to help reflect on what a local government can do these days when it comes to food and nutrition, even with small investments. The workbook is in Hungarian and provides questions and frameworks with which decision-makers and municipal staff can assemble their own city’s strategy and set their food system on a more sustainable path both environmentally and socially.
More...Healing Garden video
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As part of the COEVOLVERS Project we joined forces with the Magház Association, and the Boldog Gellért Hospital to draw up a plan, through a participatory process, to transform the hospital garden into a healing garden, and to take the first steps towards implementing this plan.
More...Rewarding farmers for environmental public goods
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How can innovative agri-environmental contracts support farmers and nature at the same time?
More...We developed nature-based solutions comic strips
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In the COEVOLVERS Project, we developed a series of comic strips in collaboration with a professional illustrator to translate the project’s core, complex theoretical concepts — such as coevolution, affordances, multispecies democracy, and caring with nature— into easy-to-absorb messages.
More...Bridging Communities and Code: What We Learned at the PLAN’EAT–WiseFood Webinar
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On 10 September 2026, ESSRG brought together two EU-funded research projects – PLAN’EAT and WiseFood – for a lunchtime webinar on Digital Tools and Community Action for Healthy, Sustainable Food Systems. The session focused on a simple but important question: how do community-based approaches and digital solutions work together, not just alongside each other, in the transition to healthier, more sustainable diets?
More...Strengthening regional networks while reducing our travel footprint: a great week in Kraków at the Degrowth Conference
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A large team of ESSRG researchers attended the ‘Degrowth: bridging green and just in Central and Eastern Europe’ conference, held from 16 to 19 June in Kraków, Poland.
More...A4Cap Annual Assembly Recap – A Network for life
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Two ESSRG colleagues, Gergő Berta and Kármen Czett attended the annual meeting of A4Cap, the alumni network of the Alternet summer school. The week-long assembly’s original purpose was to keep the summer school spirit alive, with a strong focus on immersive peer learning, skill sharing – while forming a community.
More...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.
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