Time: 2 November 2022, from 13.30 pm to 18 pm (including small lunch)
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Organizers: José Manuel Avila (LifeWatch ERIC) and Bastian Goldel (INRAE)
Venue: Seville City (Spain), exact place to be confirmed in subsequent communication
Description of the session:
The European Partnership under Horizon Europe for Accelerating Farming Systems Transition by Agroecology Living Labs and Research Infrastructures is currently being prepared by the SCAR Agroecology Strategic Working Group. The two European projects ALL-Ready and AE4EU support the European Commission in preparing this partnership and work closely together with the SCAR Strategic Working group.
The partnership aims to support a European network of living labs and research infrastructures that will accelerate the transition towards agroecology throughout Europe. It will provide spaces for long-term, site-specific, multi-stakeholder and real-life experimentation, and direction for research activities on agroecology at the European and national levels.
One of our main goals is to map the work of agroecology initiatives (including living labs and research infrastructures) that support the transition towards agroecology across Europe. In our workshop it is foreseen to:
- explain to the participants the aims and outcomes of the ALL-Ready project including the pilot network, as well as the future network and partnership in which LLs and RIs are planned to play a central role. This helps to make people aware or even get on board of what is happening in the upcoming years, but also to illustrate how ALL-Ready is involved in accelerating the transition.
- we will test our developed questionnaire with the participants and initiatives to reflect on the extent to which their organisations are involved in the agroecology transition (maturity), and discuss possible activities that could be accelerated in a network of living labs and research infrastructures.
This will give us interesting insights on common understandings, focuses, problems and difficulties that initiatives are facing in the transition process. Hence, we want to debate possible solutions to overcome these obstacles, and also how a future European network could contribute to that.
The session is addressed to:
- researchers & academics
- Living Lab representatives and practitioners
- Innovators
- Other, namely: Every participant of an initiative related to agroecology transition
Draft Agenda and Speakers
| Time | Activity |
|---|---|
| 13.30-14.30 | Lunch |
| 14.30.14.40 | Welcome and Introduction |
| 14.40-15.00 | Tour de table of the participants |
| 15.00-15.30 | Presentation of All-Ready project and the future network and partnership (Heather McKhann, INRAE) |
| 15.30-15.45 | Break |
| 15.45-16.05 | Explaining the ALL-Ready questionnaire and giving examples (Muriel Mambrini-Doudet, INRAE) |
| 16.05-16.20 | Best practices: fostering the participation in the EU Partnership by dynamizing Living Labs in Andalusia (AGAPA) |
| 16.20-17.10 | Break-out groups: participants discuss the questionnaire, the focus and maturity of their own initiatives, and their possible role in a future network |
| 17.10-17.25 | Break |
| 17.25-17.50 | Summary and discussion of the results of the single groups |
| 17.50-18.00 | Conclusions and ending the workshop |
Moderators: Muriel Mambrini-Doudet and Bastian Goldel (INRAE)
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