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  • Follow us on YouTube!

    2024.07.11.

    Welcome to the PLANET4B YouTube Channel! Get to know the project with our newly launched YouTube channel, where we bring you insightful interviews with our project partners. Discover their innovative work, learn about the crucial role of biodiversity, and explore creative methods used in the PLANET4B case studies. Whether you're a science enthusiast or just curious, there's something here for everyone.   Subscribe now and join us on this exciting journey of knowledge and discovery!    

  • Engaged science: changing mindsets with research intervention method sets

    2024.06.18.

    PLANET4B seeks to understand how a range of social and cultural factors come to shape people’s attitudes towards biodiversity and nature, inspire new ways of working and living and contribute to enhanced policy agendas through the very process of undertaking research, as well as through the resulting research outputs. The project is centred around the development and application of three complimentary sets of research intervention methods explored within 11 case studies. The recently published research document Report on pre-test and [...]

  • Common language and working method – the key to successful research

    2024.06.11.

    The success of any research is based on well-defined theories and on the accurate methodology used by the researchers. But working on transdisciplanry researches can be a special challange. The aim of the joint working methodology is to understand each other’s knowledge base, mindset and expectations, so that project partners (academics, practice partners and societal stakeholders) can work effectively on common research topics. To address this challenge, social science theories and methodologies applied in the project were debated in a workshop to explore their [...]

  • “Variety is the Spice of Life!” – Photo Contest For Kids and Adults

    2024.05.28.

    When we talk about biodiversity, we often mean wild habitats, plants and animals and forget about the diversity of agriculture - even though it is a part of our everyday lives. Agrobiodiversity is a key to a livable future but it's not only essential to our survival or an integral part of our cultural heritage - it is also a source of endless beauty and wonder. In the agrobiodiversity case of PLANET4B we decided to celebrate the diversity of cultivated [...]

  • PLANET4B on the Graz Seed Festival

    2024.05.9.

    The urban gardeners and seed enthusiasts of Graz celebrated the 11th year of their small festival honoring seed diversity. The PLANET4B project partners attended the event and reported on the topics covered, news and conclusions. […]

  • Film, cook, think biodiversity! PLANET4B interventions training in Berlin

    2024.04.9.

    Biodiversity loss – along with climate change – is exacerbating, already having a severe impact on humanity. Continual deforestation has led to worsening air quality and reduced carbon storage, our depleted lands and oceans yield less and less food, public health is increasingly threatened by epidemics linked to contact with species that have lost their habitats, and our mental health deteriorates through being out of touch with nature. These impacts are worse on those that are already more vulnerable or [...]