How we organize our work

WP1’s overall objective is to coordinate the co-creation processes across the project, its WPs, and within the Living Labs. Specific objectives are to:

• establish an inclusive, balanced, and safe working environment for the Living Labs
• ensure the exchange of knowledge and collaboration between the WPs and across the Living Labs
• support data collection for WPs and the co-creation of techniques and governance models
• assess and reflect on the potential for transformational change within and across Living Labs during and after the project.

WP2’s overall objective is to conceptualize NBS as a ‘coevolutionary technology’ and develop principles for co-creation in cooperation with other WPs, acting as a moderator and reflective medium. Specific objectives are to:

• create an overarching research approach for the project
• apply this approach in an iterative process for NBS design and implementation
• operationalize methodology and support NBS design in Living Labs
• synthesize the results and redefine and generalize the approach to NBS extension and transfer.

WP3’s overall objective is to investigate the environmental and psychological factors that can be either enablers or barriers to NBS design and implementation through a people-centred and place-based perspective. Specific objectives are to:

• engage and empower the Living Lab-actors (stakeholders and participants) in relation to the Living Lab, the problems that are defined, and with each other
• identify the role and significance of affordances in NBS design and implementation
• understand the essence and modes of construction of vulnerabilities; Understand individual and community values, motivations, and beliefs related to nature and NBS.

WP4’s overall objective is to design, test, and evaluate NBS governance for just digital, economic, and ecological transitions for the long-term sustainability of rural, coastal, and urban EU regions. Specific objectives are to:

• assess the socio-politics of NBS and produce a topology of NBS institutions in general and in Living Labs
• (re)configure existing NBS governance and test novel governance techniques
• co-develop sustainable and transformative models with identified benefits, costs, synergies, and trade-offs for different socio-geo-political contexts
• evaluate the NBS governance models and techniques.

WP5's overall objective is to synthesise the findings from across all WPs and to co-produce with Living Labs concrete, actionable guidelines and other resources for more inclusive NBS. The objectives are to:

• specify the knowledge gaps and needs across the sectors and promote cross-sectoral knowledge exchange
• create a comparative synthesis of the techniques and governance models across the Living Labs
• make knowledge actionable across sectors at national and transnational levels
• upscale and assess selected techniques and models through small-scale pilots
• make tools available in a variety of formats that take into account relevant and diverse stakeholder groups
• assess the contribution of NBS governance models and techniques to community resilience.

WP6’s overall objective is to

• define the overall targets and pathways for successful DEC activities
• provide the project with practical tools and platforms
• support and guide partners in the implementation of DEC activities
• monitor, assess, report on DEC activities, and readjust the DEC strategy when needed.

WP7’s overall objective is to ensure successful, timely, ethical, sustainable, and impactful management, implementation, and administration of COEVOLVERS, including governance bodies and scientific coordination.