DAISY – DigitAl, technologIcal and Social innovation mixes enabling transformation for
biodiversity and equitY – will advance understanding of how specific mixes of interventions
including social-technological innovations can be used to induce transformation for biodiversity
and equity.
Socio-economic, political and behavioural processes
To understand which socio-economic, political and behavioural processes, and their interrelationships shape and enable our personal, political and practical ability to respond to the biodiversity crisis and how they impact on transformative change.
Tools, processes, interventions, innovations
To collect existing tools, processes, interventions and innovations that are conducive to triggering transformative change with the understanding of what enables them to address biodiversity loss and social inequity.
Support biodiversity and equity prioritisation
To create intervention mixes based on existing tools and innovations and apply them in practice to induce transformation in all three spheres (personal, political, practical) to support biodiversity and equity prioritisation in decision- and policymaking.
The five DAISY case studies will explore the transformative potential in their local contexts, focusing on motivations, approaches, and the role of socio-technological innovations. They will demonstrate biodiversity-related change through practical measures, while drawing bottom-up lessons and reflecting on enablers and challenges at local, national, and EU levels.
DAISY domain: Education
Digital App for education, citizen-science and societal
engagement with nature in urban setting in the UK.
DAISY domain: Urban & Regional Development
Mixing social-technological and governance innovations
for green blue veining ambitions in the Netherlands.
DAISY domain: Agri-food /
Urban & Regional Development
Urban Rural Transformations trough commons
governance in Germany.
DAISY domain: Energy /
Urban and Regional Development
Degrowth doughnut for Budapest, Hungary.
DAISY domain: Agri-food
A Hungarian result-based agri-environmental pilot
scheme backed by a mobile app for farmers.
Do you ever wonder why we fail to take sufficient action against biodiversity loss and inequity, even when they threaten the very foundations of our society? Perhaps we lack the right tools.
Interested in how how digital technology shapes human-nature relationships, nature-relatedness and pro-environmental behaviour?
Within DAISY, Coventry University is offering a fully-funded PhD studentship under the theme Technologies of Care, exploring how digital technologies shape the way we relate to biodiversity and ecosystems.
If you’ve never posted on iNaturalist before or you are a regular user, the City Nature Challenge four-day bioblitz is a brilliant opportunity to find, photograph (or audio-record) and post your nature observations from your region…
Check out our joint newsletter packed with fresh perspectives on how digital innovation and transformative change can power a more biodiversity-positive and equitable future.
DAISY’s systematic review of 344 EU-funded projects referencing ‘transformation’ has revealed key gaps in how equity, biodiversity, and systemic change are understood and put into practice. Only 10% adopted a fundamental systems-change approach, and while biodiversity appeared in 37% of projects, it was rarely integrated with justice or transformation. To jointly assess equity and biodiversity, DAISY is building a Transformative Diagnostic Tool that will be available online in early 2026.
- Date: 11 June 2025
- Time: 14:00–15:30 CEST
- Format: Online
Online workshop
Join us on 11 June 2025 for an online workshop and open discussion on how transformative change projects are helping put practice into policy and policy into practice in real-world biodiversity and equity efforts.
- Date: 25 June 2025
- Time: 10:00–14:00 CEST
- Format: Online
Online workshop
Dr. Elsa Maria Cardona Santos (UFZ), who leads DAISY’s work on understanding transformation in policy and the enablers of transformative change, will present DAISY’s concept of transformative change, its theoretical framework, and its relevance for the field.
- Date: 25-27 June 2025
- Time: all days
- Format: Conference
Conference
The ISEE-Degrowth 2025 Conference (24–27 June, Oslo) unites the 18th ISEE Conference and the 11th International Degrowth Conference under the theme “Building Socially Just Postgrowth Futures – Linking Theory and Action.”
- Date: 29 July 2025
- Time: 14:00–15:30 CEST
- Format: Online
Online workshop
Join us on 29 July 2025 for an online discussion on how transformative change projects can contribute meaningful messages to policy.
- Date: 11 Sept 2025
- Time: all days
- Format: Conference
Workshop
Jeanne Nel (WR) talked about her experience in DAISY, BioTraceS, BioAgora and other transformative change projects during PLANET4B closing event’s panel discussion on 11 September 2025 where Alex Franklin, Ilkhom Soliev and Agnes Zolyomi (PLANET4B Co-cordinators) also reflected on how PLANET4B results will be channelled into DAISY to ensure maximum impact.
- Date: 23 Sept 2025
- Time: 9:00 - 18:00 CEST
- Format: Conference
Workshop
Elsa Maria Cardona Santos (UFZ) presented DAISY’s theoretical framework and insights reflecting on previous work about ecosystem restoration at the Baltic Sea on 23 September 2025 during the Sea of Opportunities: Collaborating Towards Effective Protection and Restoration of the Baltic Sea event in Stralsund, Germany.
- Date: 25 Sept 2025
- Time: 9:00 - 18:00 CEST
- Format: Conference
Conference
On 25 September 2025, DAISY was presented at the Budapest Public Transport Company’s event on innovative sustainability strategies for urban mobility, co-organised with GreenFormation and Corvinus University. The session introduced the “Budapest Degrowth Donut” framework and highlighted how DAISY will help evaluate biodiversity-relevant indicators and integrate them into local and higher-level development strategies, fostering transformative change for biodiversity and equity.
