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IBERSOILL - Iberian Living Soils

The IBERSOILL Living Lab aims to facilitate the adoption of carbon farming practices in farms located within the cross-border regions of Portugal and Spain, in particular in Beira Baixa and Castilla y...

AgricultureForestry
Universities and/or university departments (e.g. agriculture)Research institutions+ 8
Living Lab

AEGEAN Living Lab

The AEGEAN Living Lab is situated on Lesvos Island in Greece. The rural landscape is mainly covered with olive orchards and faces significant soil degradation challenges due to its hilly terrain, sha...

Agriculture
Research institutionsLocal authorities+ 5
Living Lab

AlVelAl Living Lab

Alvelal LL is a network of farmers, livestock, companies, universities, research centers, public administrations, and social organizations that was established in 2015 through the creation of the Alve...

AgricultureForestry+ 3
Primary, secondary and other schools (e.g. agricultural, spatial planning...)Universities and/or university departments (e.g. agriculture)+ 37
Living Lab

Bulgarian Living Laboratory for soil health in vineyards

At the heart of the BUV SHELL is the grape vineyard of the Agricultural university of Plovdiv, which is an attractive centre for education, training, research and demonstration to stakeholders (farmer...

Agriculture
Universities and/or university departments (e.g. agriculture)Students+ 14
Living Lab

SOILCRATES French Landes Living Lab (F3L)

This LL is located in Gascony, within the Landes and Gers Counties. It is made of three main soil types: the sands of Landes Forest, the clayey sands, and the clayey silts on molasse where the source ...

AgricultureForestry
Primary, secondary and other schools (e.g. agricultural, spatial planning...)Universities and/or university departments (e.g. agriculture)+ 17
Living Lab

Greek Mine Soil Health Living Lab

The Greek living lab in Western Macedonia will feature the reclamation of surface lignite mine land for agriculture via phytoremediation. This is an essential practice in the framework of the region...

Industrial
Universities and/or university departments (e.g. agriculture)Research institutions+ 12
Living Lab

SOILCRATES-Ireland

LL is situated on mineral soils in 3 counties: Clare, Limerick, and Tipperary in the South-West of of Ireland. Across all three counties are significant areas of Fine loamy soils, podzols and clays. L...

Agriculture
Research institutionsUniversities and/or university departments (e.g. agriculture)+ 10
Living Lab

ITA LL (The name ITA SHELL was the self-assigned identity used by the Italian Living Lab when it registered with the SOILL self-assessment tool. At that stage, the LL was still defining its governance, had no operational structure, and naturally adopted a

The ITA LL focuses on soil health across rural, urban, and peri-urban areas in Northern Italy, operating across 14 confirmed experimental sites in five regions. It targets Soil Mission goals, addressi...

AgricultureUrban+ 1
Universities and/or university departments (e.g. agriculture)Research institutions+ 15
Living Lab

Loire Valley and Beaujolais (LVB) Living Lab

The LVB LL is included in the LivingSoiLL project. It is dedicated to soil health in vineyards. It includes two regions that are quite afar from one another, so it will function more as two closely re...

Agriculture
Primary, secondary and other schools (e.g. agricultural, spatial planning...)Research institutions+ 8
Living Lab

Luso-Galician Living Lab

The Luso-Galician LL is located in the Northwest of the Iberian Peninsula and comprises Galicia (Spain) and the North of Portugal. This LL that include two crops (olives and vines) aims to be a refere...

Agriculture
Universities and/or university departments (e.g. agriculture)Research institutions+ 17
Living Lab

Menorca Living Soil – Alliance for Agroecology in Menorca (Aliança per una Menorca Agroecològica)

Our Living Lab has taken the form of an alliance (called «Alliance for Agroecology in Menorca») that brings together people and organisations to jointly transform Menorca's food system. This collabo...

AgricultureForestry+ 1
KindergartensPrimary, secondary and other schools (e.g. agricultural, spatial planning...)+ 35
Living Lab

Living Lab North-Netherlands

The LL North Netherlands is situated on mineral soils in 3 provinces: Fryslân, Groningen and Drenthe. The main soil type in this region is sand (podzol) and clay. In the region most soil health issu...

Agriculture
Universities and/or university departments (e.g. agriculture)Research institutions+ 14
Living Lab

NW Italy - Piemonte Living Lab

Piemonte is characterized by hills and colluvial foot-slopes with tree orchards. Vineyards and hazelnut orchards dominate the central hills, while chestnut groves cover the lowest elevation areas of t...

Agriculture
Primary, secondary and other schools (e.g. agricultural, spatial planning...)Universities and/or university departments (e.g. agriculture)+ 28
Living Lab

Soil Health & Regenerative Agriculture (SHARE) Innovation Lab

The SHARE Innovation Lab is a trans-regional initiative in the Po Valley, managed by Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (UNICATT), the Regional body for Agricultural and Forestry services of Lombar...

Agriculture
Universities and/or university departments (e.g. agriculture)Research institutions+ 17
Living Lab

SWEdish Soil Health Living Lab (SWE LL)

In recent decades, Sweden’s agricultural land has seen increased crop production intensity through the use of mineral fertilizers, pesticides and heavier equipment. SWE LL addresses agricultural soi...

Agriculture
Universities and/or university departments (e.g. agriculture)Research institutions+ 14
Living Lab

Thyrea Living Lab

Τhyrea Living Lab is located in East Peloponnese Island Arcadia Greece otherwise known as Thyrea between the northwestern shores of the Argolic Gulf and Northern Laconia. Its land area is 577 km², ...

AgricultureForestry+ 2
KindergartensUniversities and/or university departments (e.g. agriculture)+ 17
Living Lab

Solvi'Terra

The Solvi’Terra Living Lab (Des sols vivants en Val de Drôme) brings together actors in the Drôme River valley southeastern France. It spans an area of 600 km2 , with 22,000 ha of agricultural lan...

Agriculture
Research institutionsLocal authorities+ 11
Living Lab

GREENNOMED living lab (GREEN INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS IN MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENTS)

The SouthEastern Spain Soil Health Living Lab – GREENNOMED (GREEN INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS IN MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENTS), is located primarily in the Campo de Cartagena (Region of Murcia) and Almería ...

Agriculture
Universities and/or university departments (e.g. agriculture)Research institutions+ 17
Living Lab

Andalusian Living Lab

This Living Lab is located in Andalusia, and the target crop is olive groves. The main objective is to co-create solutions to reduce erosion and contamination, increase water-holding capacity, and imp...

Agriculture
Universities and/or university departments (e.g. agriculture)Research institutions+ 26
Living Lab

SOFRALL

The South Of France Agro LL is a community coordinated by Agri Sud-Ouest Innovation, in partnership with the Group Biosphères and Danone, and bringing together different types of stakeholder around t...

Agriculture
Research institutionsAcademic incubators+ 10
Living Lab

RAGILL - RegenAg Israeli Living Lab

The RegenAg Israeli Living Lab is a collaborative initiative led by MIGAL Galilee Research Institute, in partnership with GRANOT/NIBBANA ISRAEL and the Upper Galilee Regional Council and key agricultu...

AgricultureForestry
Research institutionsTechnology Transfer Centres+ 20
Living Lab

Greek Carbon Farming Living Lab [GRECFL2]

Greek Carbon Farming Living Lab - GRECFL2 is funded under the LILAS4SOILS project, which aims at creating 5 Living Labs in 6 different countries (Portugal, Spain, France, Italy, Greece, and Israel), d...

Agriculture
Universities and/or university departments (e.g. agriculture)Research institutions+ 9
Living Lab

Granada Tierra Viva

Granada Tierra Viva: Soil Living Lab The Soil Living Lab in the province of Granada—also known as Granada Tierra Viva—is an open, collaborative space for innovation, dedicated to the health and s...

AgricultureForestry
Universities and/or university departments (e.g. agriculture)Research institutions+ 30
Living Lab

RA4ALL (Regenerative Agriculture for All Living Lab)

RA4ALL Living Lab is located in the northern part of Serbia, in the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina. It is hosted by BioSense Institute in Novi Sad with the support of the Agriculture Cooperative Go...

Agriculture
Universities and/or university departments (e.g. agriculture)Research institutions+ 7
Living Lab

Basque LL

This Basque Living Lab seeks to develop an ecosystem, a network, a methodology and a space for experimentation to use the local and native knowledge of all actors to co-define and co-create a low-carb...

Natural or semi-natural
Primary, secondary and other schools (e.g. agricultural, spatial planning...)Universities and/or university departments (e.g. agriculture)+ 14
Living Lab

Grojec Living Lab

The Grójec region where Grójec Living Lab is established is located in the southern part of the Mazowieckie Voivodeship and covers an area of 1268 square kilometers with a population of around 100 0...

Agriculture
Universities and/or university departments (e.g. agriculture)Primary, secondary and other schools (e.g. agricultural, spatial planning...)+ 10
Living Lab

ALL Organic Living Lab

The ALL-Organic project brings together representatives of 5 countries: Estonia, Poland, Romania, Italy and Algeria. It was created to promote organic farming as a system that can support increased pl...

Agriculture
Living Lab

Waste4Soil Polish Replicative Living Lab

Waste4Soil envisions the development of 10 technological and methodological solutions for recycling food processing residues into local, biobased circular soil improvers for improved soil health. A us...

Agriculture
Living Lab

Regrow Nature Lab

We have several fields across the eastern, northern and western parts of Nigeria in our various sub-hubs. And also have access to fields owned by farmers in the three regions.

AgricultureIndustrial+ 2
Living Lab

Xeromero

Agroforestry and specifically silvopastoralism is a traditional land use system in Xeromero, Aetoloakarnania, Western Greece where livestock breeders used the valonia oak (Quercus ithaburensis) forest...

AgricultureForestry
Living Lab

Living Lab DeliSoil Germany

The heart of this DeliSoil Living Lab region is located in the Hohenlohe region in southern Germany, with its centre at the DeliSoil Lighthouse of Agro Energie Hohenlohe. Here, we test different soil ...

Agriculture
Living Lab

The Norwegian Centre of CircularEconomy Living Lab

An improved soil health with the building of humus, increased microbiological activity and reduced run-off should contribute to a reduced need for fertilizer, a reduced need for chemical plant protect...

AgricultureUrban+ 1
Living Lab

Forest Ecosystem Research Platform, Dooary Forest, Co. Laois

UCD`s Forest Ecosystem Research Platform at Dooary Forest, Co. Laois has developed extensive capabilities to monitor detailed tree and stand growth dynamics in relation to climate factors (eddy covari...

Forestry
Living Lab

Ciclos Quotidiano com Sentido

The Living Lab Ciclos Quotidianos com Sentido, coordinated by the Agrarian Development Service of Flores Island (SDAFL – Azores, Portugal), promotes agroecological transitions in a remote, food...

Agriculture
Living Lab

Smart and sustainable city LL: Rosa Lab

Dedale, in connexion with CEREMA, Ville de Paris, Ladyss,...aim to set up a Living Lab on un-sealing issue and renaturation where inhabitant will play a important role.

Urban
Living Lab

Urbanising in Place - London Case (Farming the Urban Fringe)

Urbanising in Place seeks to define components of an “agroecological urbanism”: a model of urbanisation which places food, metabolic cycles and an ethics of land stewardship, equality and ...

AgricultureUrban
Living Lab

DaLeA - Permanent living mulch in arable farming

The European Commission has formulated ambitious goals with the European Green Deal. European agriculture plays a central role in the implementation of the Green Deal. The aim is to reduce the use of ...

Agriculture
Living Lab

Soil Living Lab Romania

Soil Living Lab in Bucharest is necessary because Bucharest is a polluted urban city and we need more urban gardens to reduce pollution and it is also useful to increase soil reuse. This reuse is done...

AgricultureUrban
Living Lab

Discovery Center On-Farm and Research Living Lab

Discovery Living Lab has been an innovation ecosystem with active stakeholder participation since 2019. Our activities in Hungary, based on a decades-long network of contacts, allow us to conduct real...

AgricultureForestry
Living Lab

NOcsPS – Landwirtschaft 4.0 (Agriculture 4.0)

In NOcsPS - Agriculture 4.0 scientists want to analyse agricultural systems that do not use any chemical synthetic plant protection but mineral fertilisers. The project combines the strengths of conve...

Agriculture
Living Lab

Vertical Green Systems

This project fosters the transformation of cities into sustainable, resilient spaces by re-thinking, re-designing, and re-managing vertical greening as progressive food-water-energy nexuses. Vertical ...

Urban
Living Lab

Living Soils - Institute of Organic Agriculture Luxembourg (IBLA)

The Institute for Organic Agriculture Luxembourg (IBLA) is the competence center for organic farming and viticulture in Luxembourg. It includes both research and advice for organic farming. The focus ...

Agriculture
Living Lab

Living Lab Agro-ecology and Organic Agriculture (LLAEBIO)

The Living Lab Agroecology and Organic Agriculture, also known as LLAEBIO, is a network for everyone who wants to get involved in the further development of agroecology and organic agriculture in Flan...

Agriculture
Living Lab

Agrilink - Crop rotation between farms

AgriLink established six Living Laboratories in which scientists, advisors and farmers work together to develop new advisory techniques in response to particular industry issues. The approach is focus...

Agriculture
Living Lab

RegenRegion: Rejuvinating Soils and Societies

RegenRegion: Rejuvenating Soils and Societies is a project that aims to scale up regenerative practices amongst farmers in South-East Norway and other European regions. Our partners include farmers, a...

AgricultureUrban
Living Lab

GREENNOMED living lab

The SouthEastern Spain Soil Health Living Lab – GREENNOMED (GREEN INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS IN MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENTS), is located primarily in the Campo de Cartagena (Region of Murcia) and Alme...

Agriculture
Living Lab

Farm Carbon EIP in Gortavally bog

The Farm Carbon EIP was established to find means of incentivising farmers to raise the water table to reduce carbon emissions from peat grassland, enhance biodiversity and increase water quality, whi...

AgricultureForestry+ 1
Universities and/or university departments (e.g. agriculture)Research institutions+ 12
Living Lab

Farm Carbon EIP in Tumbeagh Bog

The Farm Carbon EIP was established to find means of incentivising farmers to raise the water table to reduce carbon emissions from peat grassland, enhance biodiversity and increase water quality whic...

AgricultureForestry+ 1
Living Lab

AGRI-SOL-GIRONA

AGRI-SOL-GIRONA is incentivating circularity among agriculture, livestock and forestry land focussed on soil improvement in a Meditarrenaena climate, where the need to protect soil and increase soil o...

AgricultureForestry
Primary, secondary and other schools (e.g. agricultural, spatial planning...)Universities and/or university departments (e.g. agriculture)+ 10
Living Lab

North Karelia Living Lab on Forest Resilience and Forest Soils

The Living Lab focuses on sustainable forest management practices and biodiversity enhancement, integrating silvicultural activities and ecosystem resilience strategies. Challenges include adapting to...

Forestry
Living Lab

Stichting Save Soil Foundation

At Save Soil Foundation, we are embarking on the most ambitious engineering project humanity has ever seen for creating a positive impact on the planet by establishing a Global Soil Health Monitoring ...

AgricultureNatural or semi-natural+ 1
Living Lab

Dzukija

The Living lab comprises Scots pine forests, transition mires and quaking bogs, mineral-rich springs and springfens, deciduous swamp woods, western taiga, herb-rich forests with Picea abies, inland du...

ForestryNatural or semi-natural
Living Lab

Agrilink - Rebuilding a local food community starting from sustainable farming and collective actions

AgriLink established six Living Laboratories in which scientists, advisors and farmers work together to develop new advisory techniques in response to particular industry issues. The approach is focus...

Agriculture
Living Lab

MALL Marineterrein Living Lab

The Marineterrein Living Lab is a real-life small-scale urban setting in the core of Amsterdam where urban innovations can be co-created and tested at a small scale with real users (citizens) before b...

Urban
Living Lab

Agro-ecosystems in Andalusia region

He currently focuses on two Living Labs:1. Trigo Lab Innova-Organic production of cereals for the agri-food industry. Strengthening rainfed organic farming through the efficient use of water by wheat ...

Agriculture
Living Lab

SPORE organic waste contamination prevention

Vegetable, fruit and garden (GFT) waste is an unsolved challenge in Amsterdam. Food waste is rarely separated, making general waste smell bad, and causing emissions in their transport and processing. ...

Agriculture
Living Lab

Sociedad Española de Agricultura Ecológica y Agroecologia (SEAE)

SEAE (Sociedad Española de Agricultura Ecológica y Agroecología) aims to gather the knowledge, expertise and concerns of stakeholders involved in the different areas of the organic and agroec...

AgricultureForestry+ 2
Living Lab

Rogaland Soil Health Living Lab

Living lab for Soil Health Rogaland (Norway)Seeking cooperation with farmers and industrial actors to:develop solutions to avoid soil compaction, thus increasing draining capacitymitigate flooding thr...

Agriculture
Living Lab

Forêt de Boçages

Restoration of an intensively managed Pinus pinaster plantation landscape that is affected by multiple disturbances, is occurring through planting of broadleaved hedgerows. Planting a network of mixed...

Forestry
Living Lab

Grønt kompetansesenter Mære-Skjetlein

A mixture of Agricultural school farms, conventional and ecological farmers, regenerative farming. We are located in the middle of Norway at 63-64°N, and we have: diverse farming systems and divers...

AgricultureUrban
Living Lab

Earthworm Foundation

Sols Vivants is an initiative bringing together more than 600 farms located mostly in the north of France to works towards soil regeneration being supported by their downstreams clients in their trans...

Agriculture
Living Lab

Kennis Transfer Centrum Zegveld

KTC Zegveld is the knowledge transfer centre of peatsoils in the Netherslands. It focusses on peat soil related research and knowlegde transfer connected to topics like water infiltration systems, gre...

Agriculture
Living Lab

CROPS4LIFE

CROPS4LIFE aims to reduce the environmental/climate footprint of the agrifood system in Vitoria-Gasteiz by steering the local food choice through a data-intensive, digital and adaptive governance stru...

Agriculture
Living Lab

Jonathan Krink

The HumusKlimaNetz is Germanys largest model and demonstration project focused on sustainable humus management. On 150 arable farms across the country, practical measures to enhance soil organic carbo...

Agriculture
Living Lab

Agroliving lab-Aranjuez

The Aranjuez Agroliving lab aims to dynamise the food system in Aranjuez, creating spaces for reconnecting food production and consumption with the rural and urban environment, this project replicates...

AgricultureUrban
Living Lab

Agroliving lab (AGROLAB) Aranjuez

Agrolab Project aims to recover the relations between rural, periurban and urban areas, with economic, environmental and sociocultural solutions based on agrarian activity.The initiative was born in 2...

Agriculture
Living Lab

Red de Semillas de Euskadi

We are a non-profit Association for the research, conservation, dissemination and valorisation of the biodiverse cultivated species of the Basque Country region. We are plant producers and belong to t...

AgricultureForestry+ 1
Living Lab

Larragorri

Larragorri Park is the park that will close the Green Belt in the southern part of the city. The area of action is the area known as the Graveras de Lasarte, whose environmental problems are highly co...

Industrial
Living Lab

Mendebaldea

Mendebaldea project aims to create a large green infrastructure in the form of a corridor around the Jundiz industrial area in consecutive phases of about 10 hectares of degraded land restoration. Pha...

Industrial
Living Lab

Green Circle Cheese and Soil Subsidence (Groene Cirkel Kaas en Bodemdaling)

Based on an open and equal partnership, Dairy Factory De Graafstroom, the Province of South Holland, dairy cooperative DeltaMilk, Rabobank, Water Board Rivierenland, Wageningen University & Research a...

Agriculture
Living Lab

Living Lab Schouwen-Duiveland

The aim of the Living Lab is to work on innovative solutions in practice and test them in the field (fieldlabs). In projects, the Living Lab, together with knowledge institutions, puts the knowledge a...

AgricultureNatural or semi-natural
Living Lab

OMKi On-farm Living Lab

ÖMKis On-farm Living Lab is an agroecology-focused nationwide participatory experimentation network established and run by the Hungarian Research Institute of Organic Agriculture (ÖMKi) which ...

Agriculture
Living Lab

The Chamber of Agriculture of Pays de la Loire region

PILOT SITE: Angers Loire Metropole (municipality)ISSUES & CHALLENGES: 1) Defining criterias and indicators to be taken into account to facilitate the preservation of soil functions in territorial stra...

AgricultureUrban
Living Lab

Lorraine Smart Cities Living Lab (LSCLL)

With the Healthy soils for Healthy planet project BRGM (French Geological Survey), UBFC (Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté), and Université de Lorraine work together to develop a soil-relate...

ForestryUrban+ 1
Living Lab

Odling i Balans (Farming in Balance)

Odling i Balans (english: Farming in Balance), founded in 1991, is an organization of farmers and stakeholders who work together for a long-term sustainable and prosperous Swedish agriculture through ...

Agriculture
Living Lab

Soil Rescue Innlandet

The Living Lab “Soil Rescue Innlandet” is a part of the SoilHACK-project, together with 3 other Living labs in Spain, France and Czech Republic. Soil Rescue Innlandet is a collaboration be...

AgricultureUrban
Living Lab

Rovalterra : observatoire de la santé des sols

OBSERVATOIRE ROVALTERRA DE LARTIFICIALISATION ET DE LA RENATURATION DES SOLS- Animer et fédérer les actions menées sur le territoire du Grand Rovaltain et la Région AuRA en matière dÃ...

AgricultureForestry+ 3
Living Lab

Nutricycle Vlaanderen

Nutricycle Vlaanderen is Flanders nutrient-recovery living lab, driving the shift from linear “nutrient removal” to a circular model that recovers N, P, K and organic matter from manure an...

Agriculture
Living Lab

Fliwer Living Lab - Mas de les Garceres (Regencos, Girona)

The Fliwer Living Lab, located in Mas de les Garceres (Regencos, Girona), is a research and innovation platform focused on sustainable irrigation and soil management for agriculture and landscape gard...

AgricultureForestry+ 3
KindergartensPrimary, secondary and other schools (e.g. agricultural, spatial planning...)+ 38
Living Lab

Cartagena – La Unión Mining District (Use case SOILPROM)

The Horizon Europe project SOILPROM case study in the Cartagena-La Unión mining district (SE Spain) addresses severe soil contamination from historical mining of Pb, Zn, Cd, and As. This Mediterran...

AgricultureForestry+ 1
Living Lab

SUS-SOIL GALICIAN (USC) LL

Located in Lugo (Galicia, Spain), USC SUS-SOIL LL is set to organize a set of workshops where different co-creation and validation activities will take place. Different experimental activities will ta...

AgricultureForestry+ 1
Living Lab

Agriventures living Lab

Agriventures is a dynamic Living Lab driving innovation in sustainable agriculture and soil health. By fostering collaboration between startups, researchers, farmers, and policymakers, Agriventures pr...

Agriculture
Living Lab

Living lab Biochar for Soil Health Improvement

Biochar made from residuals as park and garden waste, sewage sludge, agricultural residuals etc is a way to recirculate carbon to soils. Biochar is only slowly broken down in the soil and and remains ...

AgricultureUrban
Living Lab

AgriFood Network (AKIS): Living Lab sobre gestión sostenible del Suelo de la provincia de Teruel

The Innovation Centre in Rural Bioeconomy of Teruel belongs to The Agrifood Research and Technology Centre of Aragón (CITA), which is a Public Research Organization belonging to the Government of A...

AgricultureForestry
Living Lab

Citizen Science Environmental Lab

Data-based and location-adapted utilisation of private and public green spaces to mitigate the consequences of climate change is the basis of the LL activities. The primary target group of regional en...

Urban
Living Lab

Global Change Experimental Facility

The GCEF (Global Change Experimental Facility) is a large field experiment for the investigation of the consequences of climate change for ecosystem processes under different land use options. The GCE...

Agriculture
Living Lab

Hammersly Økojord

Hammersly Økojord is a regenerative organic farm and Agroecological Living Lab on Bornholm, Denmark, dedicated to fostering healthy soils as the foundation for resilient ecosystems and sustainable ...

Agriculture
Living Lab

Rafingser Streuobst und Naturschutzprojekt

An experiment in rural Austria to find a new balance between agriculture and rewilding on a local level with the help of universities, innovation and community engagement. A strong focus on youth and ...

Agriculture
Living Lab

Urbanising in Place - Brussels Case (Gardening Contested Land)

Urbanising in Place seeks to define components of an “agroecological urbanism”: a model of urbanisation which places food, metabolic cycles and an ethics of land stewardship, equality and ...

AgricultureUrban
Living Lab

Agrofîle

Agrof`ÃŽle is a farmers` association, a member of the CIVAM Network and recognized as a GIEE, which mobilizes around a hundred producers in the Paris region around agroecology and agroforestry, and ...

AgricultureNatural or semi-natural+ 1
Living Lab

Agrilink – improving the advisory service by bringing the innovation closer to farmers

AgriLink established six Living Laboratories in which scientists, advisors and farmers work together to develop new advisory techniques in response to particular industry issues. The approach is focus...

Agriculture
Living Lab

EcoRegió

We have a Question, a successful model, a project and a proposalThe QUESTION is… what happens if I invest microcapital in organic companies of my region?If I invest in production, distribution, ...

AgricultureUrban
Living Lab

CO2-Solutions Living Lab

The CO2-Solutions Living Lab under Interbalkan Environment Center, brings together academia, industry, government, and civil society to address real-world environmental challenges and co-create innova...

AgricultureNatural or semi-natural
Living Lab

Catalan Living Lab (DeliSoil Project)

The Catalan Living Lab is part of the DELISOIL project (Vic University - Uvic UCC, Beta Tech Center). It is dedicated to the implementation of technologies to add value to food processing side chains ...

Agriculture
Living Lab

AgroScapeLab Quillow (ASLQ)

To achieve the sustainable development goals regarding sustainable crop production, mitigation of and adaption to climate change, and maintaining soil fertility and biodiversity in agricultural landsc...

Agriculture
Living Lab

Aqua Da Vida Living Lab

LivingLab addressing practices improving soil water retention as main adaptaiton to climate change.

Agriculture
Living Lab

Agrilink – Small farmers receive better fiscal information in a confusing informational landscape

AgriLink established six Living Laboratories in which scientists, advisors and farmers work together to develop new advisory techniques in response to particular industry issues. The approach is focus...

Agriculture
Living Lab

Agri-environmental Living Lab

The Ecopionet Operational Group project, which sought to improve the exchange of information in the field of organic farming, served as the seed for closer links between entities with different profil...

AgricultureForestry
Living Lab

Fundatia ADEPT Transilvania

We have developed the RBAPS system for the Romanian region`s mountain and continental areas. This system focuses on the ecological quality of hay meadows and uses 30 specific indicators to evaluate th...

Agriculture
Living Lab

Living Lab Satakunta region

Satakunta Region in the Southwest Finland is the area of the specialised plant production due to favourable agro-climatic conditions. There locate many large national and international-scale food indu...

Agriculture
Living Lab

Agrotopia

The living lab Agrotopia is supported by the 9000 m² Agrotopia rooftop research greenhouse on top of the agricultural market in Roeselare. 6000 m² cultivation area, a compartment for multilayer ...

AgricultureUrban
Living Lab

Living Lab of Circularity

A research oriented Living Lab which focusses on circular economy with a role for farmers. Infrastructure such as a digestor, racewaypond, greenhouses, field trials and climate rooms facility the rese...

Agriculture
Living Lab

Agri-Forester

AGRI-FORESTER is a project carried out by an operational group lead by I.TER. I.TER is a society born in 1987 with the goal of creating an interdisciplinary structure working on agri-environmental stu...

AgricultureForestry
Living Lab

Living Lab “modelli innovativi e sostenibili di gestione del suolo”

The LL Innovative and sustainable models for soil health” has been founded in May 2022 with the overall objective to (i) calibrate and introduce sustainable practices of agro-ecosystem manageme...

Agriculture
Living Lab

Santa Chiara Agrifood FabLab

The Agrifood FabLab is a multidisciplinary Living Lab, accredited by the European Network of Living Labs, focused on sustainability of the agrifood systems and aimed to innovate organizations, process...

AgricultureIndustrial
Living Lab

Leftover green spaces

The goal of this experiment is to let people expand their meaning of the leftover space (to see if this place is perceived differently after intervention). This can be seen as a proxy for considering ...

Agriculture
Living Lab

Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety - Department for Soil Health and Plant Nutrition

AGES long-term field experimentsAustriaGeneral description:The Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety (AGES) and its precursor organisations carry out long-term field experiments (LTE)since more t...

Agriculture
Living Lab

VivAgriLab - Relier ville et vivant dans le sud-ouest francilien

Through its multi-stakeholders approach, the VivAgriLab translates the experiences and skills of local players, mainly farmers, into applied projects adapted to the agri-urban nature of the region. It...

Agriculture
Living Lab

Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development

The Agroforestry Research and Model Project of the University for Sustainable Development in Eberswalde is located in the Löwenberger Land. The topics addressed include biodiversity, soil, climate,...

AgricultureForestry
Living Lab

FiBL on-farm research network Living Lab

From its earliest days, FiBL`s participatory research approach has been characteristic of its work. Today our on-farm network comprises over 150 farms throughout Switzerland, where research and field ...

Agriculture
Living Lab

Forestry Department of Agricultural University of Athens

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Forestry
Living Lab

Alluvial forests of central Serbia

The border between Balkan Peninsula and Panonnian region is a borderline between different terrain elevations, geological formations of different age and origin as well as climatic zones and floristic...

ForestryNatural or semi-natural
Living Lab

Latvian State Forest Research Institute Silava

Kalsnava Living Lab (KLL) comprises 7258,1 ha of forests on mineral and organic soils, managed by Forest Research station with the main goal of providing space and support for scientific research, dem...

ForestryNatural or semi-natural
Living Lab

TRIGO-LAB Innova

TRIGO-LAB Innova is a social laboratory focused on the insertion of traditional wheat varieties in Agroecologically Based Local Food Systems (SALBA), in which Alimentta participates together with seed...

Agriculture
Living Lab

Nemesis Living Lab in Cyprus

Nemesis Living Labs (LLs) are place-based, problem-solving, co-creation, co-development real-life environments that will function as community-based platforms by providing co-created solutions for com...

AgricultureForestry
Universities and/or university departments (e.g. agriculture)Research institutions+ 21
Living Lab

NEMESIS - IT LL

The Nemesis IT LL runs across the Pò Valley from the Alpine zone to the Adriatic Sea. It develops co-created solutions to combat soil degradation, with a focus on soil health. The aim is to preserve ...

AgricultureForestry+ 1
Universities and/or university departments (e.g. agriculture)Research institutions+ 7
Living Lab

Soil Management Living Lab

The Soil Management Living Lab (LL), part of the NEMESIS project, is a transboundary initiative in northwestern Tunisia and northeastern Algeria addressing major soil health challenges such as erosion...

Agriculture
Primary, secondary and other schools (e.g. agricultural, spatial planning...)Universities and/or university departments (e.g. agriculture)+ 18
Living Lab

Nemesis Spanish Living Lab

The Spanish Living Lab (ES-LL) is part of the NEMESIS network of Mediterranean Living Labs working to develop and test solutions to improve soil health and combat desertification. Located in the semi-...

Agriculture
Universities and/or university departments (e.g. agriculture)Research institutions+ 14
Living Lab

URSOILL Swedish LL

The SE LLs are in cities of Stockholm and Uppsala. Urban soil contamination in this area primarily stems from historical activities such as fire extinguishing foam, ash deposition from district heatin...

AgricultureIndustrial+ 2
Primary, secondary and other schools (e.g. agricultural, spatial planning...)Universities and/or university departments (e.g. agriculture)+ 13
Living Lab

Regenerative agriculture approaches towards organic farming systems

Our Living Lab focuses on regenerative agriculture approaches towards organic farming systems. We address Mission Soil objectives 2 (increase soil organic carbon), 4 (reduce soil pollution), 5 (preven...

Agriculture
Universities and/or university departments (e.g. agriculture)Research institutions+ 8
Living Lab

AgroForSoLL

AgroForSoLL, is located in the Mediterranean part of France, focusing on agroforestry systems as a means to improve soil health in agricultural land. The two soil health challenges addressed in AgroFo...

Agriculture
Primary, secondary and other schools (e.g. agricultural, spatial planning...)Universities and/or university departments (e.g. agriculture)+ 7
Living Lab

Beira Interior-PT-Groundwork

The Beira Interior region faces significant grazing-related challenges, including overgrazing, soil erosion on shallow and stony soils, water scarcity, and biodiversity loss, pressures that are increa...

Agriculture
Universities and/or university departments (e.g. agriculture)Research institutions+ 9
Living Lab

LL3: Improving soil health for climate change

Living Lab 3 (LL3) in the TRAILS4SOIL project is based in Germany (national, all regions). It focuses on agricultural land use and addresses key soil health challenges, particularly: Loss of soil orga...

Agriculture
Universities and/or university departments (e.g. agriculture)Research institutions+ 10
Living Lab

AGRI FUTURE LAB Bayern

Our Living Lab is located in the northern foothills of the Alps, a region defined by grassland farming and dairy production. We address the significant challenges of this area: the decline in grazing ...

Agriculture
Universities and/or university departments (e.g. agriculture)Research institutions+ 10
Living Lab

Greek Urban Living Lab in the region of WM

The Greek Urban Living Lab is based in Western Macedonia, in the net-zero cities of Kozani and Ptolemaida—an area in deep transition due to the lignite phase-out. The LL addresses soil degradation, ...

AgricultureUrban
Universities and/or university departments (e.g. agriculture)Research institutions+ 14
Living Lab

CA Crop-Livestock Integration

The CA Crop–Livestock Integration Living Lab provides agronomically sound, environmentally sustainable, and socio-economically viable solutions to improve soil health by integrating livestock into c...

Agriculture
Universities and/or university departments (e.g. agriculture)Research institutions+ 19
Living Lab

Urban LL Luxembourg

The LU LL operates in the Minett Region, in the NetZeroCity of Differdange and surrounding cities a densely urbanised area with a rich industrial heritage rooted in iron mining and the steel industry....

IndustrialUrban
Research institutionsVocational training centers+ 11
Living Lab

Belgian GroundWork LL

The Belgian Living Lab (Wallonia), coordinated by Greenotec with UGent and Terres Vivantes, focuses on testing and co-developing Regenerative Livestock Grazing Practices (RLGPs) adapted to local pedoc...

Agriculture
Universities and/or university departments (e.g. agriculture)International networks (e.g. AKIS, EIP-AGRI)+ 4
Living Lab

Black Soils LL

Living Lab – Black Soils brings together farmers, researchers, and local stakeholders from Romania, Moldova and Ukraine to safeguard one of Europe’s most fertile yet vulnerable resources: the blac...

Agriculture
Universities and/or university departments (e.g. agriculture)Research institutions+ 21
Living Lab

URSOILL Spanish Urban Soil LL

The Spanish Urban Soil Living Lab addresses urban soil degradation, contamination, and sealing challenges through innovative nature-based solutions and community engagement. Located in Forua (Urdaibai...

Urban
KindergartensPrimary, secondary and other schools (e.g. agricultural, spatial planning...)+ 11
Living Lab

URSOILL Italian LL

The Italian Living Lab focuses on Milan and Turin, two former industrial cities in Lombardy and Piedmont. Lombardy is among Europe’s most urbanised regions, with 140,000 m²/day of soil sealed; in M...

Urban
Universities and/or university departments (e.g. agriculture)Research institutions+ 12
Living Lab

SUS-SOIL LL

A LL working on the analysis of the role of subsoil in different land uses


Primary, secondary and other schools (e.g. agricultural, spatial planning...)Universities and/or university departments (e.g. agriculture)+ 20
Living Lab

GroundWork Grazing Gothia

In our Living Lab, we are exploring the impact of holistic planned grazing on arable land in the region of Gothia in Sweden. Soil health on arable land on the plains of Gothia is generally decreasing ...

Agriculture
Universities and/or university departments (e.g. agriculture)Science communication centers+ 5
Living Lab

Sustainable permanent cropping systems under Mediterranean climate conditions

The Living Lab focuses on the co-creation, co-design and co-development of Regenerative and Conservation Agriculture Practices (ReCAP) in permanent cropping systems (olive groves, vineyards, almonds a...

Agriculture
Universities and/or university departments (e.g. agriculture)Research institutions+ 13
Living Lab

Living Lab Inagro

At the Living Lab Inagro, we work to strengthen soil health and circular resource management by coordinating farmer‑centred co‑creation and applied agricultural research. Our living lab Inagro int...

AgricultureNatural or semi-natural
Primary, secondary and other schools (e.g. agricultural, spatial planning...)Universities and/or university departments (e.g. agriculture)+ 23