Partner for BIODIV-06: leverage points, living labs and community-led research for transformative change (non-coordinator)

The University of Leeds (UK) is looking to join a consortium for Living labs driving transformative change via knowledge integration and inclusive governance (HORIZON-CL6-2027-01-BIODIV-06). We would be keen to lead or co-lead a work package.

What we offer

• Proven leverage points methodology from the European project FOODLEVERS (Leverage points for organic and sustainable food systems), where we led a work package applying a deep leverage points framework across seven countries

• Systems thinking approaches (leverage points, Viable System Model, etc) to design and assess interventions for transformative change

• Living lab design and facilitation with farmers, producers, consumers, local authorities and civil society

• Community-led research, co-creating research priorities and supporting community researchers to produce their own evidence

• Short food supply chains as living lab settings for biodiversity-positive food systems

• Amplification of interventions through scaling out, up and deep (Lam et al.)

• Proposal writing and project leadership experience, ready to contribute to writing and delivering a work package from day one