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...Why legumes don’t scale: six dilemmas
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Cultural barriers are the main obstacle to scaling legume consumption, and the research is detailed on the benefits. So why don’t legumes scale? We mapped six real dilemmas that farmers, processors, and consumers face when the system’s incentives point the wrong way.
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.
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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