MONALISA Synergies
Fostering Synergies and Building Bridges
At MONALISA, we strongly emphasise cultivating synergies and fostering cooperation with sister projects, as well as EU and non-EU initiatives that share our goals, objectives, and values. By aligning our efforts with like-minded projects, we amplify our collective impact, extending our reach and enhancing the effectiveness of our stakeholder engagement strategies.
This approach underscores our commitment to inclusivity, innovation, and collaboration. Through joint actions, knowledge sharing, and coordinated outreach, we empower stakeholders to actively participate in shaping sustainable solutions. By bridging diverse expertise and perspectives, MONALISA creates a vibrant ecosystem of partnerships that drives progress in tackling land degradation, desertification, and beyond.
Together, we are not just working on solutions—we are creating a legacy of cooperation and shared achievements that resonate globally.
TERRASAFE - MONALISA's Sister Project
TERRASAFE, a five-year project funded by the EU and UKRI, will empower local communities in southern Europe and North Africa to tackle desertification.
The primary goal of the project is to co-create, test and enable the adoption of innovations that both prevent desertification and/or restore degraded land. The project includes 5 pilot areas, each of which are highly vulnerable to desertification.
These pilot areas were each chosen to represent the full range of the main types of desertification alongside a variety of approaches to land use. The pilot areas include:
- Italy: Land abandonment and depopulation
- Spain: Water scarcity
- Romania: Vegetation decline
- Tunisia: Soil salinization
- Cyprus: Soil organic carbon decline
The key objectives of TERRASAFE are:
- Develop and implement a multi-actor approach to seek sustainable ways of preventing and combatting desertification.
- Produce and adopt an integrated desertification assessment framework
- Create and implement a harmonised framework to evaluate and demonstrate potential innovations that seek to prevent and combat desertification.
- Carry out policy analysis and produce policy recommendations that could help prevent and combat desertification at local, regional, national, European, and international levels.
- Co-develop and co-implement an integrated communication-dissemination-collaboration strategy to raise awareness about preventing and combatting desertification.
Related projects and initiatives
The LivingSoiLL “Healthy Soil to Permanent Crops Living Labs”, is a Horizon Europe project that is funded by the European Commission within the framework of the EU Mission ‘A Soil Deal for Europe’. The project aims to establish 5 Living Labs (LLs) in: Portugal, France, Spain, Italy, and Poland. These LLs will improve soil health and ecosystem services through co-creating, co-implementing, and co-testing (digital) solutions. These LLs will improve soil health and ecosystem services through co-creating, co-implementing and co-testing (digital) solutions.
The Key Objectives of LivingSoiLL include reducing erosion, improving soil structure, minimizing the impacts of the intensive use of fertilizers and pesticides, increasing water storage, enhancing soil biodiversity and boosting the overall soil resilience.
The Project will promote active precipitation in more than 2000 local actors in combating soil degradation through the co-creation and co-development of solutions for permanent crops.
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