Mid April, a DAISY workshop was held in Budapest to discuss how to move the Budapest Degrowth Doughnut (BDD) from an inspiring concept toward a more operational pathway for urban governance. The core group of the BDD DAISY seed innovation includes representatives of the Budapest Municipality, Corvinus University of Budapest, and the Budapest Public Transport…
DAISY’s second consortium meeting brought 18 partners from Hungary, Germany, Greece, the UK and the Netherlands to Budapest from 24–26 March 2026, combining intensive work sessions with an urban field trip through one of the inner district of Budapest. Based at Impact Hub Budapest, researchers from different fields took stock of DAISY’s progress so far,…
On Thursday 19 March, a group of Planning and Environmental Management students from Technological University Dublin (TU Dublin) joined GreenFormation for a short afternoon walk in Budapest to explore how degrowth donut related ideas are taking shape in the city’s neighbourhoods. The visit built on our collaboration within the Horizon Europe DAISY project, which focuses…
The OneSTOP consortium held its latest project meeting in Almería, Spain, from 19 to 22 January, hosted by EEZA-CSIC. Over three days, partners reviewed the progress of the different work packages, discussed links and dependencies between activities, and clarified open questions to ensure smooth continuation of the upcoming tasks. The meeting provided a structured space…
On 6 February 2026, GreenFormation presented the Co-Bio project at the “Adaptation? Naturally!” UPSURGE final conference. The event provided a valuable platform for knowledge sharing and networking among international and directly EU-funded projects, featuring Hungarian case studies on nature-based solutions. GreenFormation contributed with a short Co-Bio introduction as part of the morning mini-presentations, and then…
The EMCCINNO team, GreenFormation is part of, is pleased to share the release of a new short, 7-minute video produced within the project, built around the question “What was the turning point for you?”. The video features reflections from project partners, including two colleagues from GreenFormation, to explore personal experiences that inspire climate action and…
As the Co-Bio project draws to a close, we reflect on the diversity and creativity of the local case studies that took place across six European countries. From micro-forests in Portugal and biodiversity gardens in Italy, to urban campus greening in Austria, schoolyard and park transformations in Greece, biodiversity boxes in Denmark, and neighbourhood-scale co-creation…
At the start of December, Budapest became the vibrant meeting point for the second EMCCINNO project gathering, bringing together five pilot sites from across Europe: ZK/U (Germany), Be.Time (Spain), KÖME (Hungary), JACC (Portugal), and Friche la Belle de Mai (France). Hosted by GreenFormation and Internép, the event centered on exchanging updates, refining strategies, and deepening…
EMES is a research network of university research centers and individual researchers on social enterprise. One of our running Horizon project, EMCCINNO, was featured at the 10th EMES International Research Conference, where the impact of culture and social enterprise on Europe’s climate transition was brought into focus. For three years long, EMCCINNO works to empower…
On 21–22 October 2025, Co-Bio partners gathered for the project’s final in-person meeting, hosted by GreenFormation in Budapest. As the project approaches its end, this meeting offered a crucial moment to reflect, consolidate key learnings, and discuss the finalisation of Co-Bio’s two main outputs: the teaching methodology and the co-creation guide. Partners presented updates on…