TRANS-Lighthouses
More than green - Lighthouses of transformative nature-based solutions for inclusive communities
The TRANS-lighthouses project aims to understand the strengths and limitations in the design and implementation of nature-based solutions. Based on material and immaterial evidence, it proposes to contribute to rethinking and reframing the main elements that compose the complexity of creating socially and ecologically just solutions. As a project funded by the European Union, lasting from May 2023 to October 2026 and with a budget of almost 6 million euros, TRANS-lighthouses strengthens socio-politics as part of the public agenda for nature-based solutions towards systemic change.
TRANS-lighthouses also integrates a network of “lighthouses” in urban, rural, coastal and forest areas. The “lighthouses” are a metaphor for a set of local governance arrangements and instruments, within multi-stakeholder networks and concerted groups. They are aimed at improving the contributions of nature-based solutions and achieving, in an integrated way, ecological, social and economic objectives. To this end, new governance models will be tested, as well as approaches and tools for co-creation in small scale but big picture projects that can be upscaled over time.
Accordingly, each lighthouse is composed of living knowledge labs, assessment cases, pilot cases and international associated partners. In these spaces, the interaction of different knowledges, experiences and roles will support the assessment of ongoing solutions and the testing of new ones. In this way, it is intended to prioritise the perspectives of citizens, in dialogue with other interested actors for their co-creation.
The consortium of TRANS-lighthouses project comprises research and innovation performing organisations, policy-making institutions and civil society organisations, with 19 European partners from 10 countries. In terms of international cooperation, TRANS-lighthouses also integrates 9 associated partners from 7 countries in the Americas, Africa and Asia.
The project's ambition is to become a European reference in terms of socio-political challenges, in order to locally support nature-based projects and solutions. The assessment of the benefits and effects of solutions already developed aims to recognize practices and disseminate more economically and socially fair guidelines for their implementation.
Therefore, the acronym of the project TRANS-lighthouses stands for:
- Transformative, aiming to contribute to the full potential of nature-based solutions with communities;
- Reflexive, being grounded in assessment and critical analysis;
- Activist, towards socioeconomic and political changes;
- Networked, acting together across borders, disciplines and sectors;
- Solutions, for multidimensional and nature-based governance;
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-lighthouses, leading research in action.
ROSKILDE UNIVERSITET
TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET MUENCHEN
THE CYPRUS INSTITUTE
CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS
NANTES UNIVERSITE
UNIVERSITE GUSTAVE EIFFEL
UNIVERSITE CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN
UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI ROMA LA SAPIENZA
UNIVERSIDAD DE EXTREMADURA
UNIVERSIDADE DOS ACORES
ATHINA-EREVNITIKO KENTRO KAINOTOMIAS STIS TECHNOLOGIES TIS PLIROFORIAS, TON EPIKOINONION KAI TIS GNOSIS
ASOCIACION PARA EL IMPULSO DE LAS ECONOMIAS BIOREGIONALES
MUNICIPIO DE BARCELOS
VILLE DE BRUXELLES
INTERNATIONELLT CENTRUM FOR LOKAL DEMOKRATI ICLD
ASSOCIAZIONE VIRACAO & JANGADA APS
KAIROS - COOPERATIVA DE INCUBACAO DE INICIATIVAS DE ECONOMIA SOLIDARIA CRL
MUNICIPIO DE ESTARREJA
Associated:
UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE
Instituto de Investigaciones G. Germani Facultad de Ciencias Sociales Universidad de Buenos Aires
Periférico trabalhos emergentes
Supervisão para Assuntos de Governo Aberto (SAGA)
Tata Institute of Social Sciences
THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS
UNIVERSITY OF DAR ES SALAAM
POLYCOM DEVELOPMENT PROJECT
Universidade Estadual de Ponta Grossa
