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Task Force 6: Co-creation and Governance

Task Force 6 focuses on co-creation and co-governance for nature-based solutions, which involves engaging citizens and stakeholders in assessing problems and issues, designing nature-based solutions, implementing them in a just and inclusive manner, as well as ensuring long-term maintenance, utilization and monitoring of their services. This Taskforce invites all interested NetworkNature projects to join, drawing on their experiences while exploring linkages with relevant EU initiatives.

Objectives

TF6 aims to address gaps and barriers in nature-based solutions governance and promote co-creation for inclusive nature-based solutions. Its objectives are to:

  • Identify and promote ways to integrate principles of equality, inclusiveness and justice in NbS.
  • Explore and analyse the socio-political conditions to develop NbS and the existing planning and institutional barriers.
  • Explore, formalise and stage bottom-up initiatives for NbS (i.e. meta-governance).
  • Explore co-governance gaps in the full lifecycle of NbS, from strategic decisions to long-term management.
  • Explore co-creation approaches and innovations with systemic, sociotechnical perspectives, e.g. through NbS Living Labs, participatory evaluation and place keeping.

You must work in an EU funded research project related to nature-based solutions (NBS)