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The MONALISA project (MONitoring and Assessing prevention and restoration soLutIons to combat deSertificAtion – Project no. 101157867) is an Innovation Action funded under the Horizon Europe programme by REA, within the framework of the EU MISSION ‘A Soil Deal for Europe’.

The MONALISA project aims combat Land Degradation and Desertification (LDD) by promoting innovative, tailored solutions with proven socio-economic and environmental benefits. MONALISA adopts a transdisciplinary approach, integrating scientific and local knowledge through co-development process involving diverse stakeholders.
The projects’ six Case Studies are Los Pedroches in Spain; Médenine in Tunisia; Berchidda-Monti and Alta Murgia Park in Italy; Asterousia in Greece and Beit Dajan in Palestine, addressing varying aridity levels in Mediterranean area. The project is coordinated by NRD – UNISS.
Key solution groups include adaptive grazing systems, microbial-based biofertilizers, conservation agriculture, ecological restoration, water harvesting and wastewater reuse in agriculture. A core output is a multi-modular web-based Decision Support System.

Identify and promote the expansion of innovative and tailored solutions to prevent and reverse land degradation and desertification (LDD) while showcasing their socio-economic and environmental effectiveness in European and Mediterranean drylands.

Nostradamus is an innovative EU-funded project dedicated to advancing the sustainability and resilience of the agricultural sector in alignment with the Farm to Fork strategy, the Common Agricultural Policy, and the European strategy for data. By developing a robust, real-time digital platform, Nostradamus harnesses the power of Earth Observation, IoT, and advanced algorithms to optimize resource use, enhance yields, and promote sustainable farming practices.

A key feature of the project includes two Open Calls, providing €400,000 in funding to innovative third-party projects aimed at enhancing farm decision-making and digital tools for policy creation.

Through cutting-edge technology and a strong multi-actor approach, Nostradamus is paving the way for a data-driven, sustainable, and competitive agricultural future across Europe.

Europe is progressively becoming greener through advancements in renewable energy, reductions in air pollution, and efforts to combat environmental crime, among numerous other developments. While research underpins this transition, it must also embrace enhanced sustainability to remain aligned with these environmental objectives.

RE4GREEN is a three-year project funded under Horizon Europe, designed to develop a comprehensive framework for research and innovation that supports the transition to a sustainable economy and society. The project addresses ethical and integrity considerations in research and innovation with potential environmental and climate impacts, as well as the knowledge and technologies developed to tackle environmental and climate challenges.

To complement an extensive review of the academic literature on environmental and climate ethics, alongside existing guidelines, policies, and training, RE4GREEN incorporates practical insights from individuals across all sectors of society through a participatory research approach, utilising the Social Lab methodology. The RE4GREEN Social Labs serve as participatory spaces in which people from diverse backgrounds and expertise collaborate to explore climate and environmental ethics, as well as research integrity issues pertinent to EU research and innovation, including activities specifically directed at supporting the Green Transition.

RE4GREEN will engage a broad spectrum of stakeholders to accomplish its key objectives:

• Map environmental and climate ethics in research and innovation, identifying ethical and integrity challenges within research and innovation for the Green Transition, and pinpointing gaps in existing guidelines and training.
• Build a community through facilitating bottom-up engagement, thereby informing research integrity frameworks and shaping guidelines and recommendations.
• Produce and complement ethics and integrity guidelines with specific recommendations addressing environmental and climate ethics.
• Develop and implement training materials to ensure that research and innovation activities contribute holistically to the Green Transition.

To realise these ambitious goals, RE4GREEN unites an international and transdisciplinary consortium, coordinated by the University of Bonn. This consortium comprises fifteen research-performing organisations from countries across the globe.

LandShift is an EU-funded Horizon Europe project that develops innovative land-use strategies to balance climate change mitigation, sustainable food and biomass production, and biodiversity protection. Through five Living Spaces across France, Greece, Italy, Poland, and Ukraine, the project co-creates nature-based solutions with local communities and decision-makers to achieve climate-resilient land management, aligning with the values of the New European Bauhaus.