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Introducing… CCAE
The team of experts from Cooperativas Agro-alimentarias de España (CCAE) created for its participation in VISIONARY is multidisciplinary in scope. Led by the Sustainability, Quality and Innovation Department, it has the support of the Livestock Department with a...
British farmers take a field trip to Hungary
The bilateral cooperation between AKI and the University of Exeter has enabled a group of sheep and beef farmers from the South West of England to take part in a short field trip to Hungary. During the two-and-a-half-day trip, the participants were given an insight...
2nd VISIONARY consortium meeting in Warsaw
From September 11th to 13th, 2023, our second annual VISIONARY consortium meeting took place at the historic Old Library building of the University of Warsaw, Poland – our host this year. This meeting marked a significant milestone as we reviewed the progress our...
SPI of the month: Organic farming & collective water management in the Region of Valencia
The SPI process organised by the UPV team pursues an outstanding and timely aim: to promote the expansion of organic farming in irrigated districts within the Region of Valencia, where intensive fruit and vegetable production predominates. The adoption of organic...
Introducing… UNIABDN
The University of Aberdeen researchers in this project are part of the Department of Geography and Environment, which is part of the School of Geosciences. Katrin Prager has participated in several EU-funded research projects in recent years (CONTRACTS2.0, AGRILINK,...
Successful kick-off of VISIONARY’s SPI workshops
VISIONARY’s science policy interfaces (SPI) have been kicked off successfully. To date, ten out of 16 SPIs across eight countries held their first workshop, bringing together around 170 stakeholders from the food system, among them farmers, policymakers from local and...
SPI of the month: Tamar Grow Local (UK)
Our VISIONARY team at University of Exeter (UK) is collaborating with Tamar Grow Local (TGL), a ‘not-for-profit’ Community Interest Company (CIC), to conduct research on the role of local food in promoting sustainability. TGL operates in the Tamar Valley, an area of...
Introducing… UPV
Once a month, we are introducing one of our consortium partners and their role in our project - starting with Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV), VISIONARY's project coordinator: The UPV researchers in this project are part of the Department of Economics and...
Our Initial Conceptual Framework is out
For the past months, the VISIONARY consortium partners have been hard at work to create our Initial Conceptual Framework. Learn more about our theoretical and conceptual foundations, the systemic character of the food system and its transitions towards sustainability,...
Mental model training sessions
March 13 – March 29, 2023 A series of training sessions for “mental model interviewing” has been run by the University of Aberdeen (Katrin Prager). The purpose of these training sessions is to upskill those researchers across the different countries who will interview...
VISIONARY kick-off meeting
Alle VISIONARY-Partner kamen zusammen, um den Startschuss für vier Jahre erfolgreiche Zusammenarbeit mit Workshops, Präsentationen und Begegnungen zu geben.