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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.
Portugal
The Portugal Policy Lab focuses on addressing the future of the Alentejo from a perspective of co-creating territorial policies that integrate socioeconomic needs with the landscape's ecological sensitivity, while preserving its regional identity.
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Denmark
The Danish Policy Lab is a collaboration between the Klimaskovfonden and the University of Copenhagen. It aims to better understand how climate projects all over Denmark could be supported through a voluntary carbon market.
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Switzerland
The Swiss policy lab is a collaboration between ETH Zürich, SLF/WSL (CERC) and SCNAT/ProClim. It is researching land use changes at high altitudes across the Swiss Alps, in particular the impacts of renewable energy expansion and forest/shrub encroachment due to land abandonment.
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Hungary
The Hungary Policy Lab brings together stakeholders including local decision makers, farmers, national parks and policy makers. It has been established with the cooperation of ESSRG and WWF Hungary.
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Belgium
The Belgian Policy Lab is working in the Flemish Ardennes, one of five Flemish landscape parks approved in October 2023. The policy lab is a collaboration between the Flemish Ardennes landscape park coalition, the Flemish Land Agency and the Research Institute for Nature and Forestry.
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Europe
The EU policy lab is working to identify how private land conservation can contribute to biodiversity targets and how we can incentivise and compensate private landowners.
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