HORIZON-CL6-2026-01-BIODIV-01 – Living labs for co-creating solutions for the restoration of ecosystems

Who we are?: Gazda Kontroll Ltd (Hungary) is a private agricultural advisory and innovation management company supporting 300+ farms across Hungary. We specialise in practice-based innovation, stakeholder co-creation and on-farm implementation, with strong experience in multi-actor projects and real-life testing environments. We act as a trusted intermediary between farmers, advisors, researchers, authorities and value-chain actors, ensuring that ecosystem restoration measures are viable, adoptable and scalable

Strategic fit: Gazda Kontroll directly contributes to the core ambition of this topic: empowering stakeholders to implement viable ecosystem restoration measures through living labs, while demonstrating social, economic and environmental co-benefits. Our experience strongly supports co-creation in real-life settings, activation of land managers and end-users, demonstration of feasibility, trade-offs and benefits and scaling and transferability of restoration solutions

Our ore expertise aligned with the call scope

• Living labs & co-creation processes: Design and coordination of multi-actor living lab activities; Experience with co-design, co-development and co-implementation; Facilitation of collaboration between farmers, advisors, NGOs, SMEs and authorities

• Agricultural & mosaic landscape ecosystems: Strong expertise in agricultural landscapes with high biodiversity value; Practical work on semi-natural grasslands, buffer strips, hedgerows and rotations elements; Integration of ecosystem restoration into productive farming systems

• On-farm testing, monitoring & demonstration: Access to parcel-, farm- and region-level data; Hosting of experimental sites, pilots and demonstrations; Capacity to support monitoring of effectiveness and non-deterioration

• Economic viability & business models: Assessment of costs, benefits and incentives for land managers; Experience linking restoration to income stability and farm viability; Support to business models and public/private support schemes

• Dissemination, scaling & transferability: Strong experience in practice-oriented dissemination; Farmer-to-farmer learning and advisory-mediated uptake; Ability to support scaling strategies across regions and Member States

Envisioned roles in BIODIV-01 consortia: Gazda Kontroll is particularly well suited to act as:

• Living lab co-lead or implementation partner

• Stakeholder engagement and co-creation lead

• Agricultural landscape case study leader

• Socio-economic and feasibility analysis contributor

• Dissemination and uptake partner

Relevant project experience

• Horizon Europe / H2020: RAMONES, AGRITECH, Climate Smart Advisors, I2Connect

·       EIP-AGRI Operational Groups: Protein crops and legumes? Climate adaptation; Ecosystem services and diversified systems

• Erasmus+: advisory and rural competence development

Key contributions:

• Living lab–like demonstration activities

• Farmer mobilisation and co-creation

• Practice-oriented dissemination and reporting

Why Gazda Kontroll strengthens BIODIV-01 proposals:

✔ Direct access to land managers and farms
✔ Proven capacity to run real-life living lab sites
✔ Strong credibility with farmers and advisors
✔ Ability to demonstrate economic and social viability
✔ Experience in scaling and transferability

Contact

Gazda Kontroll Ltd – Hungary
horizon@gazdakontroll.hu

+36202622474