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As the FOODCITYBOOST project consortium covened face to face for the third time, it reflected upon the 2.5 years of work and findings to date and what the remaning 19 months of delivery might bring. Central to these considerations were the inputs from PURPLE, bot on the work of the project's six Living Labs over months 1-30 of the porject and of what might be done in terms of impacting on policy development between now and December 2027, when the project concludes.

The third full consortium meeting of the FOODCITYBOOST project takes place in Wroclaw, Poland over the first three days of June.

Plans are well advanced and two hour-long online preparation sessions have already taken place at PURPLE's suggestion so that all partners - including the six Living Labs whose project inputs PURPLE coordinates - are fully up to speed with the latest work before findings are explored in detail face to face.

The agenda includes an intervention from PURPLE on the third day offering an update on policy trends and patterns and the sorts of relevant EU policy initiatives into which the work and findings of the project might be fed over its remaining 19 months.

 

 

PURPLE Secretary General Vincent O'Connell has just co-authored an artcle based on work carried out within the PLUS Change project - the piece entitled "INTEGRATING BIODIVERSITY, CLIMATE AND SOCIAL OBJECTIVES IN LAND USE PLANNING: THE PLUS CHANGE PROJECT" is the result of ideas originally captured by PLUS Change project cordinator Julia Leventon of Czech Globe.

The article argues that land use planning is very much about navigation - finding ways through complex and shifting circumstances whilst at the same time balancing the needs, aspirations, wishes and priorities of different - and on occasion competing - interests and groups - all, ideally done with a clear sight of justice and ethics.

Published article here once available.

 

 

The next meeting of the EU CAP Network Subgroup on Innovation and Knowledge Exchange (SoIKE) takes place on Thursday, 4 June 2026 from 09:00 to 16:00.
The meeting will be held at the following address:
Hendrik ConsciencegebouwKoning Albert II-laan 15, 1210 Brussel, Belgium

Any PURPLE member representatve interested in attending is invited to contact Vincent O'Connell at info@purple-eu.org by Friday May 29th.

 

 

 

 

The final day of the 4th full consortium meeting saw a mini-conference in the morning during the course of which 12 papers at various stage of development were presented to an internal audience. PURPLE intends to produce versiosn of a small number of these papers aimed at a professional/practioner audinece as opposed for academic publications with whom in mind most of the paper shared have been drafted.

The afternoon served as an opportunity to do some planning and preparatory work as the porject enters its final twelve months, including early thoughts and suggestions for a final conference scheduled to happen in April 2027.

 

 

The second day of the three-day consortium meeting saw opportunity for informal bilateral exchanges between PURPLE and the research and practice partners within the project during an extended visit to a regional-level green infrastructure project.

The day also included a session where attendees were able to consider what a final series of policy briefs and practice briefs might look like - work closely linked to PURPLE's inputs intended to ensure take up of the project's work and recommendations at different governance levels.

There was also chance to reflect in small and larger groups on some emerging findings looking at potential development trajectories in the 12 project Practice Case locations should current key trends persist.