CLEVERFOOD: leading an urgent change in food systems for a better future
Together with University of Copenhagen an EU project is helping Europeans to embrace a sustainable and circular food system.
Together with University of Copenhagen an EU project is helping Europeans to embrace a sustainable and circular food system.
The Consumer and Citizen Engagement Working Group aims at creating a structured cross-cutting understanding of the role and methodologies of engagement in European R&I projects
The ForestWard Observatory to Secure Resilience of European Forests is one step closer to becoming reality. On the 30th and 31st of January, the FORWARDS consortium and the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) – project coordinator – kicks off the project in Umeå.
After the success of the last year's campaign #WomenScientistsPortraits, ICONS Innovation Strategies returns to celebrate the day for International Day of Women and Girls in Science with a message for future scientists.
Transitions towards low-carbon energy systems and net-zero economies have started to be comprehensive and demanding, requiring substantial public support, new business models and new governance practices. In this context, Coal regions are the ones, where the Energy Transition is strongly linked to risks and potentially negative economic impacts for municipalities, regions, companies and individual workers.
ICONS supported the implementation of the chapter dedicated to the European project. The new book, written by Jacopo Gaspari and Ernesto Antonini (from University of Bologna), explores future design actions to address the challenges, factors, and trends influencing the liveability of tomorrow’s cities.
Can built spaces be sustainable, inclusive, and beautiful all at the same time? The answer is yes. The EU-funded project Eyes Hearts Hands Urban Revolution (EHHUR) will make this possible by developing and testing a robust co-design methodology for 7 Lighthouses in Europe and Associated Countries (DK, EL, BE, PT, TK, HR, IT) that integrate the New European Bauhaus and EU Missions.
The MOZART EU project will break ground in the handling of soft objects and bring automation into the food processing industry – without forgetting societal impacts and sustainability.
A paper published on Zenodo presents the Community Engagement Index and the communication effectiveness quadrants plot. Two new tools to quantitatively assess the effectiveness of the communication and engagement strategies of European research projects.
Our changing climate is throwing up ever more threatening extremes. Whether it is storms producing extremes of rainfall, triggering floods and landslides, or the baking heat of summer producing forest fires and drought.
After four years of inactivity, the European Union Baroque Orchestra (EUBO) returns to play thanks to the collaboration between ICONS and the Associazione Musicale Angelo Mariani. ICONS adds EUBO to its philanthropic activities, becoming a leading European player in the creation and management of youth orchestras.
The EU-funded project explores the transformative potential of spatial planning to invert the trend of biodiversity loss