On 14 November 2025, the LandShift consortium gathered online for the project’s First-Year Meeting. Partners from all five Living Spaces and supporting organisations came together to reflect on a year of work, share progress, and look ahead to the next steps of our collective journey.
Over the past 12 months, LandShift has grown from an ambitious idea into a network of active regional communities. Each Living Space, Occitanie in France, Eastern Macedonia and Thrace in Greece, Basilicata in Italy, Mazovia in Poland, and Kyiv Region in Ukraine, shared updates on their local engagement, challenges, and early achievements. From expanding stakeholder groups to launching local meetings and identifying nature-based solutions to test, the Living Spaces are quickly becoming active hubs for collaboration and regional dialogue.
The meeting also highlighted LandShift’s scientific and technical progress. Partners presented advances in collecting climate and land-use data, mapping environmental trends, examining soil and ecosystem indicators, and developing tools that will guide future land-use scenarios. These efforts aim to give regions clearer insights into how climate change, land management, and local decisions interact.
Another important part of the discussion was community engagement. Partners reviewed the progress made in bringing policymakers, local organisations, farmers, foresters, and civil-society groups into the conversation. Strengthening these relationships will be key as LandShift begins designing shared strategies for sustainable and inclusive land use.
Finally, the meeting also served as a moment to look forward. Partners discussed next steps for regional workshops, co-creation activities, new data collection efforts, and the upcoming release of tools and visual resources that will support local decision-making.
As LandShift moves into its second year, the consortium is more connected, more informed, and more committed than ever. The project is building solid foundations for climate-resilient, community-centred land management across Europe and the momentum continues to grow.
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