Activating Living Labs for agricultural diversification in EASTern Europe

Proposed activities should:
Set up four to five living labs to work together on thematically related soil health challenges. Proposals should describe the rationale for cooperation across the various living labs and explain how the work undertaken will contribute to one or more of the Mission’s specific objectives. Proposals should present a realistic combination of a limited selection of variables. 2. Establish a detailed work plan with the activities to be undertaken in an interdisciplinary way, ensuring the co-design, co-development, and co-implementation of locally adapted solutions, taking into account the relevant drivers and pressures. 3. Establish baselines for the selected soil health challenge(s), and monitoring of progress. As appropriate, make use of the set of soil health indicators presented in the Soil Mission Implementation Plan. 4. Monitor and carry out an assessment of the effects of the developed innovative practices or introduced solutions on soil health and related ecosystem services. This should include a demonstration of the viability (e.g., technical, economic) of the proposed solutions and quantification of the impact of the tested practices and/or solutions on relevant soil health indicators. 5. Identify sites that demonstrate high performance in terms of their actions and results on soil health improvement and that may be converted into lighthouses. 6. Propose strategies (e.g. financial, organisational) to ensure long-term sustainability, including the identification of possible business models and actions involving local authorities, and other stakeholders. 7. Dedicated task for linking up with other projects in this call as well as SOILL, SoilWise, Natioons, BENCHMARKS, AI4SoilHealth.