Die essbare Stadt

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The Innovation Booster Future Urban Society seeks and promotes radical ideas from research and real-world practice in order to further disseminate or strengthen the impact of the most promising social innovations for climate-friendly housing, mobility and nutrition.Please note the guidelines, attached as a document called ‘EN - Idea Submission Guidelines’.How might we...... create places for growing local food where all city residents can (re)discover the joy of experimenting, their self-efficacy and vitality?... foster a delightful relationship with living things through urban gardening?... ensure that you can enjoy a successful harvest from your balcony in the very first year?... make natural cycles tangible in a simple way: from seed, to field, to plate and into compost, in order to maintain fertile ground? ... facilitate the first small steps towards sustainability, biodiversity and healthy nutrition that are fun and make you hungry for more? ... support established and new forms of agricultural or gardening use to attract new people beyond the usual target groups?... develop and establish new professional fields, such as community gardeners? Delicious and healthy vegetables, berries and herbs are easy to grow yourself with a bit of know-how and appropriate materials. This is the most beautiful and rewarding side of gardening. There are numerous ways to grow a variety of healthy foods on your roof terrace, balcony, front garden, community garden, leisure garden or elsewhere. Getting started with “micro-agriculture” is uncomplicated, can promote biodiversity and creativity, reduce food waste and has a positive impact on the climate. Urban gardening initiatives and land cultivation businesses on various urban areas - from (micro) gardens to residential areas, wasteland and agricultural land - develop concrete solutions to achieve sustainability goals and thereby make a significant contribution to sustainable cities and communities. Urban gardening contributes to an overall individual and social change towards a sustainable lifestyle.The various forms of urban agriculture and urban gardening (farms, community gardens, community supported agriculture, self-harvesting fields, neighborhood and balcony gardens, etc.) have so far established themselves as a small, lively niche in our cities.The FUS Challenge The Edible City is looking for radical ideas to enable low-threshold and health-oriented access to the topic and to bring the existing approaches from the niche into the mainstream. The aim is to reach different and more people than before and get them excited about the diverse urban practices of gardening. How can we give the urban population a taste for gardening again in a good way?In an open innovation process, we promote the exchange between transformative initiatives and companies in the food system, the interested public and those responsible from research (agroecology, urban studies, social psychology...), planning authorities and politics. The Canton of Basel-Stadt is available as a contact point and provides its own expertise and data. In the case of suitable projects, the canton provides support in the search for specific testing opportunities.Join in and help to spread the social innovation of the Edible City and secure financial and methodological support as well as valuable contacts for further steps in an interdisciplinary team!What are we looking for?We are looking for radical ideas to make the most promising social innovations viable for the majority - with the involvement of civil society, business, administration and/or politics. Are you working on relevant offers, services, organizational forms, business and impact models, communication and intervention strategies or strategic experiments? We facilitate the implementation of feasibility, user or market studies or the development of models and prototypes that help to demonstrate and test potential solutions.We look forward to finding solutions that will increase and multiply the contribution of social innovations to a climate-friendly and liveable urban society of the future. Who can apply?In accordance with Innosuisse's guidelines, only mixed teams with members from at least one research and one implementing partner can apply. The events in the Challenge Stage allow individual players to find each other. If a project team lacks a research partner, we can try to help out. Contact matchmaking@futureurbansociety.ch for this or for other networking. We can only award funding to legal entities - cooperatives, associations, foundations, companies, universities, cities, etc. - from Switzerland. The use and distribution of financial resources in the sponsored teams is carried out independently, but is accountable.The research partners include university research institutes, non-commercial research centers outside the university sector, research institutes of the departments with their own research projects and federal research institutes. Implementation partners are all private and public actors who can put ideas into practice or at least have a share in doing so.How can the funds be used?The funding can be used for feasibility, utilization or market studies. Where possible and appropriate, the development of models and prototypes to illustrate and test solutions is financed. The funds can be used flexibly for specific purposes, e.g. to pay salaries, purchase equipment and materials, observation and interview research, travel expenses, organization of roundtables, workshops, etc.A part of the funds is reserved for the content-related and methodological support of experts in the respective fields.What needs to be submitted?We are currently working on a submission kit. This will include a template, all the questions to be answered and everything else about the procedure. Follow this Open Call and you will be automatically informed when we publish the kit.Anyone who has taken part in one of our Open Innovation events or calls is eligible for funding. We are still fine-tuning the dates. The following are already public:Challenge Accepted - Problem exploration workshop in Basel, 05.02.2025 We are planning further events and calls. They will be announced promptly on our website and by newsletter.You can find more details on how to participate on the website https://www.futureurbansociety.ch.If you have any questions, please check the FAQ first. If you still have questions after that, please contact us at info@futureurbansociety.ch

Challenge Metadata

Challenge Name: Die essbare Stadt
Date: 12/13/2024 1:23:03 PM
Administrators:
- Anaïs Sägesser |
- Mirko Fischli |
- Björn Müller

Challenge Description

Please note the guidelines, attached as a document called ‘EN - Idea Submission Guidelines’.

How might we...

... create places for growing local food where all city residents can (re)discover the joy of experimenting, their self-efficacy and vitality?
... foster a delightful relationship with living things through urban gardening?
... ensure that you can enjoy a successful harvest from your balcony in the very first year?
... make natural cycles tangible in a simple way: from seed, to field, to plate and into compost, in order to maintain fertile ground?
... facilitate the first small steps towards sustainability, biodiversity and healthy nutrition that are fun and make you hungry for more?
... support established and new forms of agricultural or gardening use to attract new people beyond the usual target groups?
... develop and establish new professional fields, such as community gardeners?

Delicious and healthy vegetables, berries and herbs are easy to grow yourself with a bit of know-how and appropriate materials. This is the most beautiful and rewarding side of gardening. There are numerous ways to grow a variety of healthy foods on your roof terrace, balcony, front garden, community garden, leisure garden or elsewhere. Getting started with “micro-agriculture” is uncomplicated, can promote biodiversity and creativity, reduce food waste and has a positive impact on the climate.

Urban gardening initiatives and land cultivation businesses on various urban areas - from (micro) gardens to residential areas, wasteland and agricultural land - develop concrete solutions to achieve sustainability goals and thereby make a significant contribution to sustainable cities and communities. Urban gardening contributes to an overall individual and social change towards a sustainable lifestyle.

The various forms of urban agriculture and urban gardening (farms, community gardens, community supported agriculture, self-harvesting fields, neighborhood and balcony gardens, etc.) have so far established themselves as a small, lively niche in our cities.

The FUS Challenge The Edible City is looking for radical ideas to enable low-threshold and health-oriented access to the topic and to bring the existing approaches from the niche into the mainstream. The aim is to reach different and more people than before and get them excited about the diverse urban practices of gardening. How can we give the urban population a taste for gardening again in a good way?

In an open innovation process, we promote the exchange between transformative initiatives and companies in the food system, the interested public and those responsible from research (agroecology, urban studies, social psychology...), planning authorities and politics. The Canton of Basel-Stadt is available as a contact point and provides its own expertise and data. In the case of suitable projects, the canton provides support in the search for specific testing opportunities.

Join in and help to spread the social innovation of the Edible City and secure financial and methodological support as well as valuable contacts for further steps in an interdisciplinary team!

What are we looking for?

We are looking for radical ideas to make the most promising social innovations viable for the majority - with the involvement of civil society, business, administration and/or politics. Are you working on relevant offers, services, organizational forms, business and impact models, communication and intervention strategies or strategic experiments?

We facilitate the implementation of feasibility, user or market studies or the development of models and prototypes that help to demonstrate and test potential solutions.

We look forward to finding solutions that will increase and multiply the contribution of social innovations to a climate-friendly and liveable urban society of the future.

Who can apply?

In accordance with Innosuisse's guidelines, only mixed teams with members from at least one research and one implementing partner can apply. The events in the Challenge Stage allow individual players to find each other. If a project team lacks a research partner, we can try to help out. Contact matchmaking@futureurbansociety.ch for this or for other networking.

We can only award funding to legal entities - cooperatives, associations, foundations, companies, universities, cities, etc. - from Switzerland.

The use and distribution of financial resources in the sponsored teams is carried out independently, but is accountable.

The research partners include university research institutes, non-commercial research centers outside the university sector, research institutes of the departments with their own research projects and federal research institutes.

Implementation partners are all private and public actors who can put ideas into practice or at least have a share in doing so.

How can the funds be used?

The funding can be used for feasibility, utilization or market studies. Where possible and appropriate, the development of models and prototypes to illustrate and test solutions is financed. The funds can be used flexibly for specific purposes, e.g. to pay salaries, purchase equipment and materials, observation and interview research, travel expenses, organization of roundtables, workshops, etc.

A part of the funds is reserved for the content-related and methodological support of experts in the respective fields.

What needs to be submitted?

We are currently working on a submission kit. This will include a template, all the questions to be answered and everything else about the procedure. Follow this Open Call and you will be automatically informed when we publish the kit.

Anyone who has taken part in one of our Open Innovation events or calls is eligible for funding.

We are still fine-tuning the dates. The following are already public:

Challenge Accepted - Problem exploration workshop in Basel, 05.02.2025

We are planning further events and calls. They will be announced promptly on our website and by newsletter.

You can find more details on how to participate on the website https://www.futureurbansociety.ch.

If you have any questions, please check the FAQ first. If you still have questions after that, please contact us at info@futureurbansociety.ch