News & Events

This video, created by the UNISECO partner in Spain is summarizing GAN-NIK's case study work in Navarra, their results and impressions of the UNISECO project. VIEW THE VIDEO

Among the multi-actor case studies in 15 countries across Europe the case study in Northern Spain focuses on how to reduce the socio-economic fragility of agro-ecological farms while maintaining environmental sustainability. Visit the page of the case study in Northern Spain for more details.

Read the open access research paper by BOKU colleagues based on the work in UNISECO "Applying the Human Appropriation of Net Primary Production framework to map provisioning ecosystem services and their relation to ecosystem functioning across the European Union" published in the Vol. 51 2021 issue of Ecosystem Services.

The Green Deal, the Farm to Fork and the Biodiversity stategies have identified agroecology as a farming practice and promising approach that can support us collectively to achieve this ambitious EU level target of climate neutrality by 2050.

In the H2020 programme the 3-year UNISECO and 4-year LIFT projects have been financed under the topic call SFS-29-2017 - Socio-eco-economics – socio-economics in ecological approaches from 2018. Now that UNISECO is over an online policy seminar was organized to present findings of both projects.

We developed a set of methodological guidance briefs for selected key methods and approaches for assessing and co-constructing strategies of agro-ecological transitions in a transdisciplinary setting.

Access and read all of our methodological briefs on the links below.

We developed a set of methodological guidance briefs for selected key methods and approaches for assessing and co-constructing strategies of agro-ecological transitions in a transdisciplinary setting.

Access and read the first batch of our methodological briefs on the links below.

Dear Reader,

The UNISECO project has come to an end on 30 April 2021.

We are very pleased to inform you that we have just released the last issue of the UNISECO Project Newsletter.

You may access and browse or download the PDF version here.

Here are some highlights what you can find in this issue:

Read and exploit all our results including public deliverables, case study materials, issue briefs, policy briefs, EIP-AGRI practice abstracts,  the Socio-Ecological System Interaction Tool, scientific articles, final conference presentations and videos, newsletters, other publications and project videos at the RESOURCES SECTION of our project website.

Access and read our project level policy briefs on the links below. We provide recommendations for future research needs and actions, on operation of multi-actor platforms to support agro-ecological transitions, and on the importance of supporting advice, education and life-long learning to promote transitions.

Did you know that you can find all public UNISECO results that have been accepted by the European Commission in the public repository of Zenodo at the UNISECO Community page?

Browse and exploit our open access results, visit our page https://bit.ly/3zOsEdq

As a side event to the 1st Farming Biodiversity Summit on 27 May 2021, UNISECO was featured at the ELO Solutions Workshop: Insights from EU Projects on Codesigning Research with Rural Actors - transdisciplinary approach at solving the biodiversity crisis on 27 May 2021 14:30 - 15:30 CET hosted on the FFA2021 virtual platform during the FFA2021 Regional Event period.

Gerald Schwarz presented the UNISECO project results with a title "Governance and Sustainability implications of Agro-ecological Transitions: Lessons and policy recommendations from case studies across Europe" at the 2nd International Scientific Conference “Sustainable Bioeconomy Development 2021: Adaptation to Climate Change”. 

Among the multi-actor case studies in 15 countries across Europe the HU case study focuses on exploring the drivers and barriers to soil conservation farming practices. View the playlist of the HU case study videos (with English subtitles) here.