COEVOLVERS: Coevolutionaryapproach to unlockthetransformativepotential of nature-basedsolutionsfor more inclusive and resilientcommunities)
Duration of the project: 11/2022 - 10/2026
Project number: GA 101084220
Coordinator: Juha Hiedanpaa, Natural Resources Institute (Finland)
Number of involved organizations based on countries: 9 (11 partners)
Principal researcher at SlovakGlobe: prof. Tatiana Kluvanková
Research team at SlovakGlobe: Dr. Stanislava Brnkaľáková, Dr. Tomáš Szabo, Dr. Iveta Štecová,
Dominik Horváth, Natália Matviaková
Objective:
COEVOLVERS aims to develop novel approaches to enhance socio-political dimension of Nature Based Solutions (NBS). Special attention is paid to the integration of natural science and social science approaches using coevolutionary principles and via co-creation to integrate diversity of actors including vulnerable groups and nonhumans in designing and implementing NBS to diverse cultural context of 7 Living Labs across the Europe. In the project we understand as "co-creation" the involvement of all stakeholders in the development and implementation of the project activities and the "co-evolutionary" approach considers co-evolution of institutions and technologies in interaction with the ecosystem and interactions of human and nonhuman actors.
Main mission of the SLOVAKGLOBE in close collaboration with CETIP inprojectis to lead activities towards co-development of novel governance models for NBS in WP4. In particular to map existing institutional aspects of NBS implementation and identify main typology of NBS practice (T.4.1.) and to reconfigure NBS practice to arrive to novel NBS governance (T.4.2 -T.4.3) applying Role board game developed under the Laboratory of experimental social sciences. We believe that through game-based learning we can help to understand and navigate purposeful behavioural change supporting knowledge co-creation and NBS governance reconfiguration for sustainable and resilient communities.
Main objective (principle) of Beskydy Living Lab is to co-develop a collaborative governance regime Virtual Commons which will be focused on sustainable collective management of forests and water in the region. Virtual Commons is a concept initiated by Arizona State University to analyse and better understand collective action. Sharing common resources has been a challenge for human societies for millennia thus the ability to create effective institutional arrangements has helped to avoid the tragedy of the commons. Virtual Commons aims to increase the understanding of how people organise themselves in cooperative situations and how to create / support robust communities in physical but also virtual space. SlovakGlobe and CETIP is currently developing tool for collective management.
Activities:
- CETIP and SLOVAKGLOBE teams at COEVOLVERS Kick off
- CETIP chairs one of the COEVOLVERS Living Labs: Cross Boarder region Beskydy, located on borders Czechia and Slovakia. (report)
- Testing RBG as educational tool at secondary school and students at university.
- Learning by doing: Demonstration of our role
board game at COEVOLVERS meeting in Tartu
This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon research and innovation programme under grant agreement 101084220.