COEVOLVERS project

Between 24–26 September, the Living Lab in the Beskydy cross-border region hosted an international workshop titled Nature Based Governance: Coevolutionary and transformative perspective on the #biodiversity and climate crises. Fifty-five researchers from three international scientific networks – Earth System Governance Project, the Horizon Europe project COEVOLVERS, and the COST Action “Transformers” – met to discuss current and future knowledge on the governance of nature-based solutions (NBS). Read what the workshop was all about on our website: https://lnkd.in/dSBbeBd9

On a warm evening of June 11, ethnologist Hildegard Reimann and Nelly Mäekivi guided a small group of local people of Tartu (Estonia) on an unusual journey — a nighttime walk through the quieter parts of the city to explore how non-human animals navigate these urban spaces. Their goal was to shift perspectives, step away from the human-centered view of the city, and open up to the experiences of the other creatures that call it home. Read the blog post: https://lnkd.in/dn4HM88R

It's great Michael Kull @ COEVOLVERS project met colleagues from our sister project TRANS-lighthouses at the NetworkNature EU event. More info: https://lnkd.in/dVYFC2Tz

This #worldenvironmentalhealthday the Scottish Living Lab of COEVOLVERS project @HuttonSEGS is sharing at #beskydy2024 how our work is promoting a more resilient rural community in the face of climate change, through #naturebased initiatives in a community-owned woodland. https://lnkd.in/dpucx_8Z

Coevolvers researchers gathered in Beskydy for the workshop Nature-Based Governance: Coevolutionary and transformative perspectives on the biodiversity and climate crises, between 24–26 September. These photos were taken on an excursion across the Beskydy Living Lab with beautiful views over the Czech part of LL from Slovak Kasarne resort. Find out more: https://lnkd.in/dyMrGcYG #beskydy2024

The Budapest Living Lab continues the botanical survey of the healing garden, which has been supplemented by the observation of the wildlife in the quadrats – undisturbed areas – established in June. In the video, we present some of the small creatures and plant life of the garden. 🐞 ☘ 🐛 🌼 🐝 https://lnkd.in/d_H2dfXF

The crisis of mental health, related to the global polycrisis, is more and more perceived worldwide. Nature-based solutions aim to mitigate these crises, which allow us to solve our problems in cooperation with nature. One type of nature-based solutions are healing gardens, which build on the positive impact of nature on human mental health. Healing gardens are habitats created through the interaction between humans and non-humans contributing positively to both biodiversity and human mental health. In the ‘Healing Garden Living Lab’, a research organization, a civil society organization, and a Hungarian mental health institution have joined together to transform a hospital garden into a healing garden via participatory action research. Multiple form of knowledge, the needs and experiences of the people who work and heal in the hospital, and the interests of plants and animals living in and visiting the garden all participate in the transformation of the garden. The paper written by Coevolvers' researchers based on the experiences of the Hungarian Living Lab has just been published in Hungarian, see https://lnkd.in/dabZCwGm György Pataki Orsolya Lazányi Gabriella Farkas Barbara Mihok Bea Pántya Réthy Katalin Szilágyi Krisztina Török Hunor Learn more of the project: https://lnkd.in/d_H2dfXF

𝐓𝐨𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐃𝐚𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐂𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐧 𝐀𝐢𝐫 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐁𝐥𝐮𝐞 𝐒𝐤𝐢𝐞𝐬. European forests provide us with many important benefits, such as oxygen production or air quality regulation or water retention. However, these ecosystems are currently facing challenges related to the effects of the ongoing climate change. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘊𝘰𝘦𝘷𝘰𝘭𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘵𝘦𝘢𝘮 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘓𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘓𝘢𝘣 𝘉𝘦𝘴𝘬𝘺𝘥𝘺 (Czechia) is helping local communities to co-create ways to adapt to these challenges by implementing nature-based solutions for the sustainable provision of forest ecosystem services. Learn more about our Living Lab in Beskydy: https://lnkd.in/dvg6s2KT hashtag #cleanairday #InternationalDayofCleanAir

"It was great to work with soil!" was the comment of one participant on the construction of a raised bed organized by the Healing Garden team in collaboration with the addiction ward of the Boldog Gellért Hospital. Over the past weeks, we met the clients of the addiction unit on three occasions to build, paint, and plant the new raised beds. The new beds were mainly planted with herbs that can be used to make tea (various types of mint, lemongrass) or sandwiches (e.g. basil) for the patients in the hospital. During the group discussion looking back at the process, the clients emphasized that they enjoyed physical work in the garden and that they were happy to have the opportunity to take care of the plants in the long run. They also had several ideas about how the garden could be transformed and developed - these ideas will be channeled into the participatory planning process led by a landscape architect. The programme was part of the Coevolvers project. The #HealingGarden Living Lab in Hungary aims to propose and implement concrete solutions to transform the garden of the Boldog Gellért Hospital in Pomáz into a healing garden, thus contributing to the healing and recovery of the hospital's patients and the well-being of the professionals working there. Read more on what we do: https://lnkd.in/d_H2dfXF

This summer, researchers from COEVOLVERS visited the island of Cres, where we are doing a small-scale pilot program. Ageing population, tourism intensification, overpopulation of non-native animals are key challenges to the sustainability of the traditional pastoral farming system. The aim and hope of the Cres pilot study is to co-design governance practices for the island’s multispecies management that could lead to a just and sustainable co-existence of diversified human and more-than-human actors. Read more: https://lnkd.in/dgyFyB4U