Current Projects of the Research Group Applied Landscape Ecology and Ecological Planning

Making the future appealing! Utopias for inclusive implementation of the sustainability strategy in the Tecklenburg real-world laboratory

The project establishes a real-world laboratory in Tecklenburg and explores ways to implement the municipal sustainability strategy in an inclusive manner, in which citizens dream up desirable futures and actively help to shape them. Various building blocks for the future contribute to strengthening the region's transformative resilience and transforming fear of the future into optimism about the future. As part of the project, building blocks for the future are being designed and tested that tie in with the fields of action of the Tecklenburg sustainability strategy and focus on individual transformation challenges. At the table of utopias, citizens are invited to dream and encouraged to take action.

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Project duration: 2025 - 2025

Permaculture garden as a meetingpoint

Establishment of a nationwide model and demonstration network for agroforestry in Germany; sub-project 12: Continuation of knowledge production through a citizen science network – acronym: MODEMA

The project is part of the joint project ‘Model and Demonstration Project for Agroforestry in Germany’, in which it contributes to work package 8 ‘Knowledge Transfer’ through participatory contributions using the citizen science approach. The content of the project will be developed in moderated exchange processes between specialist scientists and local citizen science groups at the cooperating agroforestry farms. The two-year project aims to lay the foundations for the continuation of research activities and the expansion of a citizen science network for agroforestry. This should enable farm managers and local stakeholders to evaluate the functionality of their agroforestry systems and the success of management options on site.

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Term: 2024 - 2027