TRANSlighthouses

The TRANSlighthouses project aims to understand the strengths and limitations in the design and implementation of nature-based solutions (NBS).

It proposes to contribute to rethinking and reframing the main elements that compose the complexity of creating socially and ecologically just solutions.

TRANSlighthouses integrates a network of “lighthouses” in urban, rural, coastal and forest areas.

The “lighthouses” are a metaphor for a set of local governance arrangements and instruments, within multi-stakeholder networks and concerted groups.

Each lighthouse is composed of living knowledge labs, assessment cases, pilot cases and international associated partners which aim  at improving the contributions of NBS and achieving ecological, social and economic objectives. To this end, new governance models, approaches and tools for co-creation will be tested in small scale but big picture projects which can be upscaled over time.

As a project funded by the European Union under the Horizon Europe programme, lasting from May 2023 to October 2026, TRANS-lighthouses strengthens socio-politics as part of the public agenda for NBS towards systemic change.