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About Mosaic
The European Union has set out ambitious goals to combat the climate and biodiversity crisis. To reach these goals, they developed the EU Green Deal, the EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030, and the Farm to Fork Strategy, all seeking to address the overexploitation and unsustainable management of land across Europe.
However, the path forward is unclear and policymakers often do not know if their current or planned land-use policies will achieve their objectives.
The MOSAIC project aims to support land use decision makers in developing and implementing innovative and effective policies for a sustainable future.
Our Work
A total of twenty organisations from across Europe are collaborating on the MOSAIC project. We are working with local people and organisations across Europe and in six specific locations to understand and influence how land across Europe is managed.
Here's how we work:
Policy Labs
Central to the MOSAIC projects are six Policy Labs located in Belgium, Denmark, Hungary, Portugal, Switzerland and Europe-wide. MOSAIC’s Policy Labs are bringing together local expertise and the MOSAIC team’s modelling and land-use expertise to develop new and effective policies for sustainable land use.
Drivers and Decisions
As part of MOSAIC, we are examining land use drivers, incentives and instruments across Europe and at individual Policy Lab level. We’re conducting a thorough study analysing the motivations behind land use changes. We’re using a variety of methods such as interviews and focus groups, as well as historical data to look at land use changes in the past.
Modelling
State-of-the-art land use modelling will help MOSAIC to understand how land use across Europe might change in the future and ensure our project policy recommendations have the desired outcomes.
Advanced land use models will be developed and tested in each of our six Policy Labs. To ensure that models and scenarios reflect real-world situations accurately, these models will combine existing and emerging research with inputs from our stakeholder engagement work.
Digital Learning Environment
MOSAIC is creating a digital learning environment to support decision-making for sustainable land use. The digital learning environment and services will be co-designed with stakeholders and developers and operate at three levels: one for the whole of Europe, one for individual countries and one for local users. We will create resources or services for users at each of these levels in an agile way, creating room for testing, feedback and improvement as we go along, with the goal of creating a user-friendly digital learning environment that meets the needs of different users.
Introducing MOSAIC
Read more about the project by downloading our policy labs in our briefing pack.
Also available in German, Danish, Hungarian, Dutch and Portuguese.
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