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The European Union has set out ambitious goals to combat the climate and biodiversity crisis. To reach these goals, they developed the EU Green Deal, the EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030, and the Farm to Fork Strategy, all seeking to address the overexploitation and unsustainable management of land across Europe.
However, the path forward is unclear and policymakers often do not know if their current or planned land-use policies will achieve their objectives.
The MOSAIC project aims to support land use decision makers in developing and implementing innovative and effective policies for a sustainable future.
A total of twenty organisations from across Europe are collaborating on the MOSAIC project. We are working with local people and organisations across Europe and in six specific locations to understand and influence how land across Europe is managed.
Here's how we work:
Policy labs
Working with local people and organisations across six locations to understand and influence how land across Europe is managed.
Central to the MOSAIC projects are six Policy Labs located in Belgium, Denmark, Hungary, Portugal, Switzerland and Europe-wide. MOSAIC’s Policy Labs are bringing together local expertise and the MOSAIC team’s modelling and land-use expertise to develop new and effective policies for sustainable land use.
Local Policy Labs are undertaking stakeholder mapping, policy context analysis and coalition building activities and engaging with researchers, policymakers, farmers, landowners and other relevant land-use stakeholders. Working closely with these stakeholders, coupled with data, case studies and state-of-the-art socio-economic modelling, will provide a holistic view of drivers and motivations behind land-use change
Lessons from each Policy Lab will be shared to enable local, regional and national decision makers to develop their own land use strategies which support the EU’s climate and biodiversity goals.
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Drivers and decisions
Working with local people and organisations across six locations to understand and influence how land across Europe is managed.
Central to the MOSAIC projects are six Policy Labs located in Belgium, Denmark, Hungary, Portugal, Switzerland and Europe-wide. MOSAIC’s Policy Labs are bringing together local expertise and the MOSAIC team’s modelling and land-use expertise to develop new and effective policies for sustainable land use.
Local Policy Labs are undertaking stakeholder mapping, policy context analysis and coalition building activities and engaging with researchers, policymakers, farmers, landowners and other relevant land-use stakeholders. Working closely with these stakeholders, coupled with data, case studies and state-of-the-art socio-economic modelling, will provide a holistic view of drivers and motivations behind land-use change
Lessons from each Policy Lab will be shared to enable local, regional and national decision makers to develop their own land use strategies which support the EU’s climate and biodiversity goals.
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Modelling
Understanding and predicting how land might be used in the future.
State-of-the-art land use modelling will help MOSAIC to understand how land use across Europe might change in the future and ensure our project policy recommendations have the desired outcomes.
The MOSAIC modelling team will first develop different scenarios for the future. This will involve reviewing existing policies and the impacts they might have, as well as exploring different scenarios based on socioeconomic and climate change projections.
Advanced land use models will be developed and tested in each of our six Policy Labs. To ensure that models and scenarios reflect real-world situations accurately, these models will combine existing and emerging research with inputs from our stakeholder engagement work.
Results from MOSAIC’s modelling work are expected to generate predictions on how different policies impact ecosystems, climate regulation, food production, biodiversity and renewable energy, as well as any socioeconomic consequences. This work will ensure that policy and decision makers can be confident that MOSAIC policy recommendations have been robustly tested for their efficacy, sustainability and impact on local communities the environment.
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Digital Learning Environment
Developing a virtual platform to support learning.
MOSAIC is creating a digital learning environment to support decision-making for sustainable land use. To develop this platform, we will first look at existing digital land use decision making tools to understand their strengths and weaknesses, informing the creation of the most relevant and useful platform.
The digital learning environment and services will be co-designed with stakeholders and developers and operate at three levels: one for the whole of Europe, one for individual countries and one for local users. We will create resources or services for users at each of these levels in an agile way, creating room for testing, feedback and improvement as we go along, with the goal of creating a user-friendly digital learning environment that meets the needs of different users.
We will work with the policy labs to test the various digital tools and services featured in the Digital Learning Environment. This will help us understand how and to what extent different resources can support sustainable land use changes. The lessons, insights, tools and resources from this work will be summarised and shared to help decision makers outside of the MOSAIC project achieve sustainable land use transformations.
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Partners
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National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment
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Karlsruher Institut für Technologie
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The Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL |
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Flanders Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food |
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Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade NOVA |
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