Projects

2011 - 2014 Ecological Function and Biodiversity in European Soils ((EU FP7 EcoFInders)
2012 - 2016 Forest Land Ownership Changes in Europe: Significance for Management and Policy (Cost Action FP1201 FACESMAP)
2013 - 2016 Tourism, Wellbeing and Ecosystem Services (Cost Action IS1204 TObeWELL)
2013 - 2016 Enhancing the resilience capacity of SENSitive mountain in FORest ecosystems under environmental change (Cost Action ES1203 SENSFOR)
2014 - 2018 Innovations in Climate Governance: Sources, Patterns and Effects (INNOGOV Cost Action IS 1309)
2014 - 2018 Network for Sustainable Ultrascale Computing (Cost Action ICT 1309 NESUS)
2015 - 2018 Integrated Spatial Planning, Land Use and Soil Management Research Action (H2020 INSPIRATION)
2016 - 2020 Social Innovation in Marginalized Rural Areas (H2020 SIMRA)
2016 - 2020 Climate Smart Forestry in Mountain Regions (Cost Action CA15226 CLIMO)
2016 - 2020 Payments for Ecosystem Services - Forests for Water (Cost Action CA15206 PESFOR - W)
2020 - 2023 SMART WATER management for sustainable society CONCERT JAPAN.
2022 - 2026 Coevolutionary approach to unlock the transformative potential of nature-based solutions for more inclusive and resilient communities (Horizon Europe
                       101084220 COEVOLVERS)
2023 - 2026 Climate-smart rewilding: ecological restoration for climate change mitigation, adaptation and biodiversity support in Europe (Horizon Europe 101081251 
                        wildE)
2022 - 2026 A European forum for revitalisation of marginalised mountain areas (COST Action CA21125 MARGISTAR)
2023 - 2027 Transformations international Experience and Research network for Sustainable futures (COST Action CA22156 - TransformERS) 

2011 - 2014 Socio-ecological factors of strategic planning and landscape management in the conditions of democracy and market economy (VEGA no.2/0016/11)
2014 - 2017 Adaptation strategies to natural and social disturbances in the forest landscape (VEGA no. 2/0038/14)
2017 - 2020 Ecosystem services to support landscape protection in conditions of climate change (VEGA no. 2/0013/17)
2021 - 2024 Management of global change in vulnerable areas. (VEGA no. 2/0170/21) 

COEVOLVERS

COEVOLVERS: Coevolutionary approach to unlock the transformative potential of nature-based solutions for more inclusive and resilient communities)

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)

Web: https://co-evolvers.eu/

Principal researcher at SlovakGlobe: prof. Tatiana Kluvanková

Research team at SlovakGlobe: Dr. Stanislava Brnkaľáková, Dr. Tomáš Szabo, Dr. Iveta Štecová,
                                                         Dominik Horváth

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.