D1.4 Awareness building, and Policy and Community Labs (M18)

LandShift project aims to develop sustainable, community-led land-use strategies in response to climate change, supporting the New European Bauhaus (NEB) principles of sustainability, inclusivity, and aesthetics across five pilot regions – in France (Occitanie), Greece (Eastern Macedonia and Thrace), Italy (Basilicata / Pollino), Poland (Mazovia), and Ukraine (Kyiv Region). This report covers Deliverables D1.4 and D1.2, produced by the European Rural Development Network (ERDN) at the 18-month milestone. It documents activities conducted between project launch and April 2026, focusing on two interconnected workstreams: (i) awareness building and policymaker engagement, and (ii) the establishment of Policy Labs and Community Labs as expanded multi-actor groupings within the five Living Spaces. The LandShift multi-actor approach (MAA) is built around Living Spaces - territorially embedded, multi- stakeholder platforms designed to co-produce adaptive responses to land-use challenges. Grounded in the Quintuple Helix Model, each Living Space brings together representatives of research and academia, policy, business, civil society, and the environment. Building on this foundation, the project has now created Policy Labs (focused on policymakers) and Community Labs (focused on civil society and local communities) as broader engagement bodies that complement the Living Spaces. Their joint purpose is to co-design regional roadmaps and strategies for climate-resilient land use, grounded in the NEB principles and informed by nature-based solutions.