@daisyproject.bsky.social transformative seed innovation: Budapest’s Degrowth Doughnut is moving from vision to action 🌍🍩
City actors are now co-designing real pathways for a fairer, greener Budapest 🌱🏙️
👉 Read more: greenformation.net/2026/04/17/b...
DAISY Advisory Board member, Karen O’Brien & cCHANGE launch an online course on scaling transformative change from 22 April. 🌍✨
Explore cutting-edge approaches to tackling the global polycrisis—ethically & equitably.
Join here: www.cchange.no/pages/scalin...
Registration for the 2026 Alternet Summer School is open from 10 March – 20 April. This year’s programme is entitled: "Biodiversity and society: transforming science and policy."
Learn more and register today: alterneteurope.eu/summerschool
Call for Contributors: Doing Sustainability Work Amid Disruption
We're seeking 4–5 short (10 min) reflections for a symposium at the National Sustainability Society conference – Aug 17-19, Denver, CO.
Deadline: April 12
transformationscommunity.org/join-us/call...
🌱 This week, @daisyproject.bsky.social partners gathered in Budapest to “walk” the Degrowth Doughnut, exploring how local seed projects can strengthen 🌳 biodiversity, ⚖️ equity and 🏙️ liveable neighbourhoods while amplifying their systemic impacts.
🇮🇪➡️🇭🇺 Yesterday we welcomed @tudublinsustain.bsky.social students to explore Budapest’s Degrowth Doughnut in the city’s streets and communities.
🍩🚶♀️🌱 The walkshop brought the @daisyproject.bsky.social seed innovation of the Hungarian capital to life, reimagining prosperity beyond GDP.
How can Europe deliver transformative change for biodiversity?
🗓️ Join our Science-Policy Forum on 21 April (afternoon, online) for discussions on the IPBES TC assessment, KMGBF implemention, EU policy, justice, finance, systemic change and more!
www.biodiversa.eu/2026/02/25/s...
🌱 Exciting news! With @earthwatcheurope.bsky.social, DAISY will lead Seeds of Change: Participatory Science for Biodiversity & Equity at Conference for Advancing the Participatory Sciences (CAPS 2026). Join us!
📅 28 May 2026 | ⏰ Submissions due end of Jan! participatorysciences.org/conferences/...
📉 The EEA’s 2025 assessment shows no improvement across the EU’s 28 environment indicators. Three have worsened, including climate-related economic losses now “off track”. More here: www.eea.europa.eu/en/newsroom/...
🎙️Call for sessions! Towards a just and habitable world: exploring the role of technology
Submit session proposal to shape discussions around transforming technological systems towards sufficiency, equity & resilience.
📅 Lausanne, 2-5 June '26
🔗 Learn more & submit your session → bit.ly/3JgQZT6
Happy #WorldSoilDay (especially important for daisies)!
🌍 How can knowledge systems evolve to meet today’s global challenges?
A new paper explores how universities & research bodies can shift from producing knowledge to generating wisdom for action.
🔗 Read the full paper here: sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#SystemsChange #FuturesThinking
Have a look at the concept note on Nature-Positive Economy from GoNaturePositive!, a project of the Transformative Change Cluster working on Nature-Positive Economy. DAISY experts also contributed feedback to the consultation.
zenodo.org/records/1749...
🌱 As part of @emccinno.bsky.social we invite you to join our community of practice: a platform for rethinking climate transition within the cultural and creative sector.
🗓️ Launch webinar: Thursday, Nov. 20, 13:00–14:30 CET
🔗 Register: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
#ClimateAction #CreativeSector
🌍 Open Call: 2026 Bath Conference
@esgproject.bsky.social is accepting submissions for its global gathering in Bath, UK – 8–10 Sept 2026.
Theme: Building Just & Sustainable Futures for Planetary Integrity
📅 Submission deadline: 15 Jan 2026
🔗 Learn more: earthsystemgovernance.org/2026-bath/ca...
Knowledge alone rarely leads to action. The real question: how do we create conditions for change? Projects like CLIMAS, @pro-climate.bsky.social, Pathways2Resilience showed toolboxes and behavioural insights for collective climate and biodiversity action. 🌱 #BehaviourChange #ClimateAdaptation
From classrooms to nature! PLANET4B and our DAISY partner, ESSRG share a Transformative Change Story on how nature-based solutions in schools can spark care, creativity, and action for people and the planet. 💚
planet4b.eu/news/learnin...
#NatureBasedSolutions #TransformativeChange #GreeningSchools
Art-driven approaches can shift how people feel and relate to nature, opening new pathways for biodiversity action. This recent article highlights how collaborations between artists, communities and conservation can reshape shared meanings - which connects closely with ongoing DAISY work.
New Special Feature on art–science transdisciplinary collaboration 🌿✨ Co-created processes between artists, scientists & local knowledge holders can shift power, deepen connection to place & inspire transformative action. Highly recommended 👇
ecologyandsociety.org/feature/154/
🌍✨ Transformative change is urgent — and possible.
A new paper, based on @ipbes.net work, co-authored by Karen O’Brien (DAISY Advisory Board Member) shows why incremental fixes aren’t enough. At DAISY, we’re collecting transformative seeds & intervention mixes to help shifts take root. 🌱
🚋 We explored urban #transformation with Budapest Public Transport Company and Corvinus University.
🍩 The visionary #DegrowthDonut and 🌼 @daisyproject.bsky.social inspired 60+ colleagues with fresh ideas for resilient and solidary cities.
🤝 Transforming mobility, together! #biodiversity #equity
Join DAISY and PLANET4B experts, @ilkhom-soliev.bsky.social and Alex Franklin online tomorrow for Transformative Change Seminar #4: Tools for Transformative Change for Biodiversity.
👉 Explore cutting-edge tools that empower action for people and nature.
biotrailsproject.eu/join-the-tra...
Promotional banner for BIONEXT webinar “How to make biodiversity governance more just, inclusive, and effective” on 24 September, 14:30–15:45 CET. Image shows an adult and child exploring the forest floor, symbolizing education, sustainability, dialogue for transformative change and future generations. Co-funded by the European Union.
How can biodiversity governance be more just, inclusive & effective?
Join us on 24 Sept. for discussions on bottom-up practices, justice and transformative change
Register: https://f.mtr.cool/dhzrghlkby
🌍 Join ONLINE for the final PLANET4B event – 11 September!
📅 Learn about engaging innovative tools, stories of transformative change & how to make better decisions for #biodiversity with Jeanne Nel @biotraces.eu and @ipbes.net lead author, Julia Leventon.
🔗Register here: tinyurl.com/yba894ut
🌍 Join ONLINE for the final PLANET4B event – 11 September!
📅 Learn about engaging innovative tools, stories of transformative change & how to make better decisions for #biodiversity with Jeanne Nel @biotraces.eu and @ipbes.net lead author, Julia Leventon.
🔗Register here: tinyurl.com/yba894ut
in Navarro-Gambín et al. 2025
🌿 New from our sister project PLANET4B! Pedro Navarro Gambín & team (Univ. of Pisa) explore how fashion should be transformed for biodiversity-positive and equity change. 👗🦋 A must-read for those rethinking industry & nature. 👉 thecommonsjournal.org/articles/10....
#PLANET4B #SustainableFashion
DAISY and PLANET4B coordinators @ilkhom-soliev.bsky.social Alex Franklin and @agneszolyomi.bsky.social shared insights at @maiaresilience.bsky.social platform - Alter! 🌿 We explored how behaviour & social sciences can tackle biodiversity loss & boost equity. 🌍 ##Biodiversity #TransformativeChange
🌀 Join us on 29 July 2025, 14:00–15:30 CEST, for DAISY’s next transformative change workshop — this time focusing on policy! Explore how projects like DAISY, PLANET4B and @biotraces.eu shape meaningful messages for change.
💻 Online
🔗 Register: tinyurl.com/ycx3d3z4
Powerful conversations in Brussels on 4 June:
From ethics in participation to avoiding global inequities in regulation, BIOTraCes and four Horizon EU projects including @daisyproject.bsky.social came together to face the dilemmas of just, inclusive research.
@rosalievandam.bsky.social
At #ISDRS2025 in Budapest this week, Alex Franklin (Coventry University), DAISY Coordinator, chairs sessions on theory & stakeholder roles in transformation—presenting DAISY & PLANET4B on response-able change for people & nature.
👉 Programme: isdrs.org/2025budapest/ #Transformation #Biodiversity