GOV4ALL: Governance and business models for living labs: rural regeneration hubs for tackling soil health challenges in the Mediterranean region (New Project)
New EU Project about Unlocking Regenerative Soil Practices Through Rural Innovation
The GOV4ALL Project was officially launched on Wednesday, 5 June 2024, marking another step towards improving soil health in the European Union. The four-and-a-half-year project, funded by the EU within the Soil Mission, will focus on inspiring rural communities to participate in the identification, testing and dissemination of regenerative soil management practices and on the creation long-lasting sustainable innovation centres. It will operate under the official title “Governance and business models for living labs: Rural regeneration hubs for tackling soil health challenges in the Mediterranean region.”
GOV4ALL has established five agro-innovation hubs – two in Greece, two in Spain and one in France. These living labs will demonstrate that co-created systemic changes in soil management at a regional level are possible. They will serve as nerve-centres for the project’s bottom-up, participatory approach that place farmers and rural communities at the centre of efforts to protect and restore Europe’s soils.
“Our ambition is to put farmers at the centre of the innovation process, tapping into their vast knowledge to generate sustainable solutions that are beneficial for people and the planet.”
Tristano Bacchetti De Gregoris, GOV4ALL Coordinator.
Objectives and Goals
A central mission of GOV4ALL is to drive change by fostering connections between rural communities and local, national and international innovation ecosystems, nurturing leadership and entrepreneurship with viable and long-lasting business models. The project, coordinated by the Spanish company SAE Innova, will demonstrate how rural development and regenerative soil management can go hand in hand.
“Our ambition is to put farmers at the centre of the innovation process, tapping into their vast knowledge to generate sustainable solutions that are beneficial for people and the planet.”
Tristano Bacchetti De Gregoris, GOV4ALL Coordinator.
Partnership and Funding
The GOV4ALL consortium comprises 35 partners from Austria, Greece, France, Spain and the Netherlands and an associated partner from Switzerland. The project is funded within the EU Mission ‘A Soil Deal for Europe’ (Mission Soil) of the Horizon Europe programme. The Mission Soil is focused on protecting and restoring soil and promoting sustainable management practices in urban and rural areas and leading the transition towards
healthy soil by 2030.
SPAIN
GREECE
FRANCE
NETHERLANDS
SWITZERLAND
Stay tuned to find out all the news about the project’s activities!
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