We are happy to announce that our project officer Dr. Ina Säumel is part of the Postdoc Academy for Transformational Leadership as leader of the research group “Multifunctional Landscapes” for the year’s focus topic “Land use practices in a globalised world”.

The Postdoc Academy is designed to train the next generation of leaders in sustainability and transformation research and it is an initiative of the Robert Bosch Stiftung and a joint project of the Robert Bosch Stiftung and the four academic centres:

• Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (IRI THESys),
• Leuphana University of Lüneburg
• Stockholm Resilience Centre (SRC) and
• the Dutch Research Institute for Transitions (DRIFT), Rotterdam.

It provides an intensive high-end training with four seminars in two years that broaden the research competencies of postdocs and promote their qualifications towards transdisciplinary leadership. The program also offers seed funding (e.g. for stakeholder meetings or proposal writing activities) to small groups of participants who plan to initiate research collaborations.

Furthermore, an active network of current and former participants of the program will be established.

Find further information here: https://www.iri-thesys.org/education/postdoctoral_research/postdoc-academy and here: https://www.bosch-stiftung.de/de/projekt/postdoc-academy-transformational-leadership

We are happy to invite you to hand in a paper to the IALE-Russia online Conference, held from 14th to 18th of September 2020, for the category “Land assessment and planning” – “Envisioning multifunctional sustainably productive and biodiversity friendly landscapes: Mainstreaming Nature Based Solutions beyond demonstration projects in urban and rural areas”. (Find further details here: https://iale-russia.ru/index.php/en/conference-topics)

As a special offer, selected proposals for the session will be invited to submit a paper in the upcoming special issue on “Urban agriculture and resilient cities” of the MDPI publication ‘Smart Cities’. The chairs will search for a similar possibility for publications in rural landscapes.

It is possible to do either a long oral presentation (15 min) or a flash-presentation (5 min). The abstracts for flash presentations will be accepted until 31 August 2020. Flash-presentation is a 5-minute talk which we offer as a substitute for a poster. We reckon it will get better feedback in an online format than a poster could do.

The deadline for abstracts submission for a long presentation is 15 July 2020.

The online Format provides better opportunities for perception of presentations and their further discussion. As an option, the presentation can be recorded and sent to the organizers in advance to ensure the stable display during the session.

How do we showcase the Garden City of the Future? This is one of the central questions that a local team of city representatives, food activists and design researchers explored during last week’s two-day working meeting in Letchworth, UK. Joined by Vic Borrill, Brighton&Hove Food Partnership, and André Viljoen and Katrin Bohn, University of Brighton, as its consultants, the local team discussed visions for (food-)productive urban landscapes in the world’s first Garden City.

An extensive visit of different Garden City estates, food growing and food provision sites, allotments and green infrastructure elements – prepared and led by Julia Sonander, trustee of Transition Town Letchworth – made visible the beauty and open space characteristics of the city as well as its unique potential (and need) for local food production and other food system activities. Afterwards, the group met for strategic discussions in the city planning offices. The meetings were led by David Ames and Kevin Jones, Executive Director for Stewardship and Development and trustee at the Letchworth Garden City Heritage Foundation respectively, and dealt with the group’s visions for the Garden City of the Future and how specifically its food provision aspects could become more sustainable and resilient.

https://www.letchworth.com/

Article submitted by

Katrin Bohn
Senior Lecturer
University of Brighton

  I 2020 skal tilskuddsordningen for urbant landbruk ved Oslo kommune dele ut to millioner kroner til grønne fingre i Oslo. Frist for å søke tilskudd til urbant landbruk var 20. januar 2020 og vi har fått 122 søknader!

URBANT LANDBRUK ER SÅ MANGT:

– dyrking i alt fra en pallekarm til en stor åker, på en flåte eller i en kjeller

– matproduksjon i form av hønsehold og birøkt

– tilrettelegging for ville pollinerende insekter
– eller en super og innovativ idé!

URBANT LANDBRUK KAN BIDRA TIL:
– at naboer blir kjent med hverandre

– at barn lærer hvor maten kommer fra
– sommerjobb for ungdom
– grønne lunger
– kortreist mat på bordet
– ro i sjelen
– innovasjon for framtidens matproduksjon

ALLE KAN SØKE
Vil du gjøre borettslaget ditt hyggeligere? Drømmer du om en frodig takterrasse på jobben? Ønsker du å starte med høns eller birøkt? Har du en innovativ og grønn idé? Vil du introdusere urbant landbruk i barnehagen eller på eldrehjemmet? Alle kan søke så lenge prosjektet gjennomføres i Oslo.

Les mer om hvordan du søker og hvordan vi deler ut midlene:
www.oslo.kommune.no/tilskudd-til-urbant-landbruk

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In 2020 Oslo municipality is giving out two million nok in funding for urban agriculture projects. The deadline for application was January 20th 2020 and we have received 122 applications!

URBANT AGRICULTURE IS DIVERSE:
– growing food in a planting box up to a large field, on a rooftop or in a basement
– food production in the form of chicken husbandry and beekeeping
– taking care of wild pollinating insects
– or a great and innovative idea!

URBANT AGRICULTURE MAY CONTRIBUTE TO:
– that neighbors get to know each other

– that children learn where food comes from
– summer jobs for youth
– green lungs in urban areas
– loccaly produced food on the table
– peace of mind
– Innovation for the future of food production

EVERYONE CAN APPLY
Want to make your neighbourhood more enjoyable? Do you dream of a lush roof terrace at work? Do you want to start with chickens or beekeeping? Do you have an innovative and green idea? Do you want to introduce urban agriculture in your local kindergarten, school or in a nursing home? Anyone can apply as long as the project is completed in Oslo.

Read more about how to apply and how we distribute the subsidies here: www.oslo.kommune.no/tilskudd-til-urbant-landbruk

Article submitted by

Stephanie Degenhardt
Rådgiver urbant landbruk
Oslo kommune Bymiljøetaten
Norway

https://www.klimaoslo.no/2020/01/02/tilskuddsordning-for-urbant-landbruk/?fbclid=IwAR2EfloCa7vO3-KDkLV7x7TZkscCEdFqqOkP3S1deIL6f26YWgKXZqBc14Y

The City Team was focused on the planting concept for the living lab and the integration of young children (age 4-10 years). Participants include representatives of kindergartens and primary schools, the Perspektive gGmbH (farmer and organizer), representative of a NGO and the city team chair.

The city team designed a planting concept regarding the annual Topic “biodiversity” (the annual topic was selected by the City Team during the meeting in december 2019). The concept is based on the following aims:

– Demonstration of biodiversity in plant varieties: We plant different varieties of potatoes and pumpkin with different colours, shapes and taste.
– Demonstration the positive effect of supporting plant partners: We plant all plants in mixed cultures, such as potatoes together with tagetes, wheat with lentils and corn with beans.
– Demonstration of biotope diversity: We show that different plants create different biotopes during the growing season, providing shadow and shelter, food and nesting material for various animals.
– Demonstrating the impact of plants on microclimate: We show that plants influence the microclimate thereby cooling the surrounding area and reducing evaporation.
– Demonstrating different food processing steps: We plant fruits (e.g. berries) and vegetables (e.g. tomatoes) the children can eat directly. We plant crops that need to be cooked (e.g. potatoes) and crops that need to be threshed (lentils), milled (wheat) or pressed (lein).

The city team decided how to integrate kindergartens and primary schools into the planting season. Dates for different planting activities in spring and early summer were identified and special events were designed (such as rabbit hunt with a falconer in february or construction of worm boxes in may). The city team decided that special events should be also available for the public. Hence such events were split into two parts, one part designed for pedagogic institutions in the mornings and the other part designed for the public in the afternoon.

All dates will be uploaded on CMT Andernach page in February 2020.

The next city team meeting regarding planting activities will be on 24.06.2020 in order to plan the planting/harvest activities in late summer and autumn.

Article submitted by

Iris Kroeger
EdiCitNet coordinator Andernach
Municipal administration Andernach
Germany

https://cmt.eurtd.com/groups/profile/225390/city-team-andernach