AgroPolis - Promoting AGROecology through co-creating value chain innovations and improved multi-levelPOLIcieS in a beyond-growth Europe
Ongoing
ABOUT THE PROJECT
Commissioned
Funded by the Agroecology Partnership under Horizon Europe, with national funding from national partners.
Led by
Bjørn Vidar Vangelsten
Project period
01.04.2026 - 31.03.2029
Researchers
Selorm Kugbega (Principal Investigator)
Senior Researcher
Alexandra Appel (Principal Investigator)
Senior Researcher
Christian Fischer (Principal Investigator)
Professor
Emilio Peña Morales (Principal Investigator)
Sustainability Consultant
Irena Bertoncelj (Principal Investigator)
Senior Researcher
Daniel Weiss
Senior Researcher
Camilla Risvoll
Senior Researcher
Merete Kvamme Fabritius
Researcher
Unn Haukenes Holgersen
Researcher
Francis Johnsson
Senior Researcher
Mairon Bastos Lima
Senior Researcher
Jonna Wiklund
Project Coordinator
Aziliz Le Rouzo
Research Associate
Mariana Moreno Kuhnke
Legal Researcher
Johann Helmann
Mobility Researcher
Annika Weber
Sociologist
Markus Lehnshack
Legal Researcher
Gonzalo Palomo
Agroecology Expert
Alba Martín
Participation and Stakeholder Engagement Coordinator
Francisco Gómez
Computational Biologist
Montserrat Gil
Computational Biologist
Press Contact
Tarjei Abelsen
Partners
Stockholm Environment Institute
Institute for Climate Protection, Energy and Mobility
Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
Nordland Research Institute leads AgroPolis, a European project that aims to develop new agroecological value chains, future visions and policies for a beyond-growth Europe.
Although agroecology has existed as an idea for more than a century, fewer than three percent of European farms are currently fully agroecological. Food systems are still largely built around long, global value chains, which often conflict with agroecological principles such as local resources, diversity and fairness.
AgroPolis will bring together researchers, policymakers, farmers, businesses and civil society actors to co-create new solutions for more sustainable food systems. The project uses a living-lab approach, with six national living labs across Europe and a cross-country policy hub that will develop ideas for new policies at both national and European level.
The project will also develop a new evaluation framework for agroecological value chains and carry out comparative policy analyses across countries. Findings from the living labs will be translated into practical recommendations, pilot activities, policy handbooks and new tools for practitioners and decision-makers.
AgroPolis includes partners from Norway, Sweden, Germany, Italy, Spain and Slovenia. Together, they will test innovations related to food production, processing, packaging, distribution, markets and public procurement.