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Citizen science experiment
INCREASE enters the 2nd round of its Citizen Science Experiment - calling on all citizens to participate in cultivating different varieties of the common bean.
Interested citizens can register for the next round of the INCREASE Citizen Science Experiment through the dedicated “INCREASE CSA” App.
After the great interest in the first round of the experiment in 2021 with 3,450 citizens participating from across Europe, the bean growing season 2022 promises to be another success for agrobiodiversity. The Citizen Science Experiment (CSE) is open to anyone who wants to support science with the aim to create an impact on the environment and secure the world as we know it for our and the next generations. Anyone with a smartphone and a field, garden, terrace or balcony, and the required enthusiasm to grow different bean varieties is invited to join.
As part of the Citizen Science Experiment, each participant will receive seeds of diverse old common bean varieties to grow and take care of while documenting their development through uploading photos and scoring traits in the “INCREASE CSA” App. This enables the INCREASE team to evaluate the characteristics of these old varieties and eventually enhance agrobiodiversity in Europe.
The CSE is embedded into the European research project INCREASE which involves 28 international partners with the important goal to valorise agrobiodiversity and promote food legumes consumption and cultivation in Europe. The experiment is guided by the European Commission principles “open science, open innovation and open to the world” and INCREASE takes advantage of digital technologies to make science and innovation more collaborative and global.
The “INCREASE CSA” App is free to download from all digital platforms and available in different languages. Citizens can exclusively register their participation via the App and use it to document all observations during the growing period.
How to eat sustainably?
he ANCA Chair, a partnership chair of AgroParisTech, launches on January 6, 2023, season 2 of "I eat for the future", a program to raise awareness of sustainable food, aimed at 18-35 year olds.
Entirely broadcast on Instagram @jemangepour the futru will bring throughout 2023, new tips and recipes to adopt a more planet-friendly diet.
To learn more, visit the website or Instagram account. This program is supported by C-BASC.
Results of the 2016-2020 projects
The results of the 2016-2020 projects of LabEx BASC (the original structure of C-BASC) are available on its website, relayed on the homepage. The reports have been written in terms accessible to all. In addition, the researchers explain the results in videos from the annual scientific days.
Webinars of the Santa Clara Valley - Plateau de Saclay partnership
Université Paris-Saclay, UC Davis, Terre et Cité, the Santa Clara Valley Open Space Authority (OSA), The Nature Conservancy, and EIT Climate KIC have joined forces to set up a series of digital conferences on natural and working lands in periurban areas as keys to resilience in the face of climate change and biodiversity depletion.
Policy-makers, researchers, state representatives, farmers and other actors from the Plateau de Saclay and the Silicon Valley present their work and reflect together on the design and implementation of policies for the ecological transition, as well as on the role of research in accelerating change.
- Introductory webinar
- Land-Use and Sustainability
- Carbon storage at farm and landscape levels
- More to come