PREPSOIL
11/09/2024
Preparing for the ‘Soil Deal for Europe’ Mission
The main objective of NATI00NS is to facilitate the deployment of the EU Soil Mission across European regions during most of its first ‘induction and pilot’ phase (2021-2025). NATI00NS acts as a messenger of the Mission, raising awareness among national and regional stakeholders, providing access to quality-checked capacity-building materials and information, spurring the discussions on the best Living Labs setups to address regional soil needs, and fostering early matchmaking for cross-regional Living Lab clusters.
NATI00NS’ main outcomes consists of supporting the formulation and submission of high-quality applications through a combination of European-wide events addressing cutting-edge topics related to the Soil Mission between 2023 and 2024.
NATI00NS contribute to the Soil Missions goals and objectives by mobilising national groups of stakeholders as potential applicants for regional soil health Living Labs open calls funded by the Mission.
ENoLL, as Work Package 4 “Support to proposal applicants” leader, is the partner responsible for providing support to potential Living Lab proposal applicants, through:
• Coaching sessions at a pan-European level, including Associated Countries, where mentors are trained on the Soil Mission Living Lab criteria and operation of regional soil health Living Labs to maximize impact by ensuring high quality proposals.
• Factsheets on how to support the Living Labs before and within the application process to the open calls, as well as on expanding their knowledge on soil health and different land-use types.
• Capacity building webinars to increase interest and interaction amongst potential applicants. They provide a strong focus on Living Lab methodology, such us how to set up a Living Lab, how to develop a governance model, business model generation in an open innovation context.
• Matchmaking sessions that aim to support trans-national consortiums of applicants to the Living Labs Open Calls by facilitating the match of different stakeholders for the creation of new high-quality Living Labs proposals.
• Helpdesk assistance that focuses on administrative matters regarding the technicalities of the application and on scientific and technical questions regarding the applications.
The European Network of Living Labs (ENoLL) is the international, non-profit, independent association of benchmarked Living Labs.
