DAISY - DigitAl, technologIcal and Social innovation mixes enabling transformation for biodiversity and equitY

Project Team

• Alex Franklin
• Katharina Dehnen-Schmutz
• Lindy Binder
• Sian Green
• Julia Stew

Duration

January 2025 - December 2027

Value of Project

€ 2 044 085,00

Collaborators

1. Coventry University (United Kingdom, Coordinator)
2. GreenFormation Kft. (Hungary, Partner, Co-Coordinator)
3. ESSRG Nonprofit Kft. (Hungary, Partner)
4. Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung GmbH (Germany, Partner)
5. Kauno Technologijos Universitetas (Lithuania, Partner)
6. Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg (Germany, Partner)
7. TIESS - Diepistimoniko Institouto Perivallontikon Kai Koi (Greece, Partner)

8. Stichting Wageningen Research (the Netherlands, Partner)

Project Overview

Interventions, such as innovations, regulations, financial incentives, and tools that influence social norms and emotions, can drive systemic change and promote biodiversity and equity. However, the success of these interventions is not well understood. With this in mind, the EU-funded DAISY project aims to examine various intervention processes that address biodiversity loss and equity, ultimately providing specific policy recommendations. It will investigate current innovations and identify emerging ones in the agri-food, energy, education, and urban and regional development sectors. The project will develop, test, and propose intervention strategies for transformative change, actively engaging civil society, policymakers, and businesses. It will analyse social, economic, and political processes, map existing innovations, and assess their potential for driving transformation.

Project Objectives

DAISY (DigitAl, technologIcal and Social innovation mixes enabling transformation for biodiversity and equitY) aims to understand how interventions (innovations, regulations, financial incentives and tools affecting social norms and emotions) and their mixes can drive systemic change and transformation for biodiversity and equity, offering concrete policy recommendations.

For this, DAISY will:

• Investigate processes supporting current innovations and identify emerging ones in key domains of agri-food, energy, education and urban and regional development;
• Develop, test and provide intervention mixes for transformative change across practical, political and personal spheres, and
• Engage and enhance the response-ability of civil society, policymakers, and businesses to implement and amplify transformative action.

To achieve these goals, DAISY will analyse social, economic, and political processes, map existing innovations, assess their transformative potential, and develop, test and assess interventions to be taken up by policies to address biodiversity loss and equity. DAISY will conduct case studies (spanning from using digital apps through commons governance to degrowth models), workshops, and (social science) experiments, working collaboratively with a range of participants. The project will provide recommendations to decision-makers and build capacity among stakeholders. Additionally, it will foster collaboration with key networks and across a range of domains to amplify its impact.

Impact Statement

DAISY will synthesise existing knowledge, understand enablers of transformation, produce an overview of key innovations aiding biodiversity, develop transformative intervention mixes, bridge networks and produce easy-to-use appealing products to operationalise knowledge and build capacities to increase response-ability and have the highest potential impacts to trigger transformation for biodiversity and equity.