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Task Force 6: Co-creation and Governance

Task Force 6 focuses on co-creation for nature-based solutions, which involves engaging citizens and stakeholders in assessing problems and issues, designing nature-based solutions, implementing them and monitoring their impact.

Objectives

  • 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

Key Activities

Generating an overview of examples, tips and guidance on
involving commonly excluded stakeholders in co-creation through
different potential activities which can be continued (not finalised)
in this timeframe:


(i) a dedicated workshop supported by a survey
(ii) a short publication/ guidance building on (i)


Targeting practitioners, public administrations + private
sector (e.g. urban planners, landscape architects): to let
practice know how to make their co-creation better,
involve more people, more meaningfully etc.


Targeting researchers: to standardize discourse, to have
shared performance metrics when testing new co-creation
tools, methods.


Initiating and developing discussions on spatial planning from a
co-creation angle building on previous work carried out by the
TFs, by:
(i) Creating a dedicated workstream
(ii) Identifying a clear objectives and potential products/activities
- targeting urban and landscape planners

Consolidating the Online Co-creation DSS (Decision Support
System) in preparation for testing and the launch of the first
version:
(i) Produce a version 75% of content complete by the NN Cluster
event.
(ii) Begin tests with new Horizon projects, co-creation facilitators
within the third sector and certain municipalities.
 

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