Introducing Your Innovative Landscape Resilience Practice!

Welcome to the ResAlliance project – a dynamic initiative dedicated to identifying and promoting existing practices in agriculture and forestry within the Mediterranean basin. Our mission is clear: to create a thematic network on landscape resilience and share solutions to tackle climate change. If you’re a practitioner in this field, we want to hear from you and showcase your efforts on our web-based platform, LandNet

Calling All Innovators!

Do you have an existing practice to show that aligns with mitigating climate change risks in the Mediterranean? Share your story with us! Whether through a short video or a written narrative, we encourage submissions from individuals and/or organizations implementing innovative practices.

Recognition Awaits!

All qualifying submissions will be featured on the ResAlliance site for the entire project duration, giving your work exposure through our website. At the ResAlliance Closing Conference in November 2025, the attendees will choose the best contributions, which will receive a Recognition Certificate and Gift. Your work will not only be prominently featured on the project site but will also be extensively promoted through our project’s channels and networks.

How to Participate

Submit a Video:

Create a video (maximum three minutes).
Use a digital camera or a mobile phone (formats: .MP4, MKV, AVI, or MOV).
Language employed may be English, Portuguese, Spanish, Catalan, French, Italian, Greek and/or Arabic.
Put emphasis on the innovation; editing is secondary but could impact audience assessment.
Submit your video with the form below, specifying the thematic area to which it belongs: Governance, Management Practice, Technology, or Finance.
Optionally, upload additional materials like text or photos.

Submit a Written Narrative:

Draft a text file (docx or .doc, up to 4 pages) describing your practice.
Include high-quality color photos for visual appeal.
Language employed may be English, Portuguese, Spanish, Catalan, French, Italian, Greek and/or Arabic.
Submit your photos separately, in the highest resolution possible.
Upload all materials with the form below, specifying the thematic area to which it belongs: Governance, Management Practice, Technology, or Finance.

Selection Criteria:

Entries will be evaluated based on innovation, alignment with project themes, contribution to climate resilience, value to stakeholders, and technical quality. Winners get their videos featured for free on the website and may present their cases at local LandLab showrooms.
Seize this opportunity to spotlight your pioneering work and contribute to building landscapes resilient to climate change. Join us in the journey towards a sustainable and resilient future!

Meet the innovators!

Here you can see the best practices submitted until now by farmers and foresters from across Europe.
Meet the people who are making changes happen in the fight against climate change and making our landscapes more resilient.
Help us showcase your practice, the call is still open! submit your video or written piece to the call for innovators!

Video submissions

Innovative solutions in cork harvest operations: Mechanical cork debarking

Nicola Solinas
Freelance

Italy

G.A.T.E trees in a can

Eleftherios Asteris
Things Green AE Ltd

Cyprus

CATChCO2-LIVE, The recovery of the Tuscan olive growing heritage

Andrea Triossi
D.R.E.Am Italia

Italy

El trabajo de Land Life restaurando naturaleza a través de la tecnología

Javier González
Land Life Iberia

Spain

Green Water Drone (Precision agriculture)

Nikolaos Proutsos
Hellenic Agricultural Organization – DIMITRA, Institute of Mediterranean Forest Ecosystems

Greece

FireFlocks Project

Mariona Borràs
Pau Costa Foundation

Spain

Plantar Água (Planting Water)

Afonso do Ó
ANP|WWF Portugal

Portugal

Almonds are born! Grow an Almond Tree

Leonardo Del Priore
Pianta.land

Italy

KALYTERA program

Clement Bellier
Labeyrie Fine Foods

Greece

Q.SYSTEM-HIGHTEK SRL

Francesco De Vivo
Hightek srl

Italy

Text submissions

Forest fire protection plan of the NILEAS Olive Producers’ Group

Georgios Kokkinos
NILEAS Olive Producers’ Group

Greece

A short presentation of the forest fire protection plan that was developed by the NILEAS Olive Producers’ Group that is based in the town of Chora, in Messinia, Peloponnese Greece. The plan was developed in response to a July 2007 fire, and proved very effective, in spite of its simplicity, one month later when the Group helped effectively control a highly dangerous fire in August 2007

Impact of soil management on biodiversity, soil properties and climate change mitigation-related agroecological indicators

Georgios Koubouris
ELGO DIMITRA

Greece

Intensive agricultural management practices (i.e., the burning of pruning residues, the absence of organic amendments) lead to a reduction in organic matter and nutrients in the soil resulting in agroecosystem vulnerability. Implementing a cover crop would provide soil organic matter while increasing nutrition levels in the soil. Cover crops can help to achieve good soil, which is important for production and plant health. However, cover crops are not commonly used by farmers. Additionally, no state-of-the-art approach that clarifies the impact of service crops has been established so far. In this context, the objective of this field study was to compare the dry biomass production, C content, and nutrient content of seeded cover crops to those of natural plants grown in an olive orchard.

Integrated management of pruning residues and cover crops to increase soil health & reduce fire risk in Greek Olive groves.

Vassilis Gkisakis
ELGO DIMITRA

Greece

Soil management & cover crops are essential components of an agroecological approach in agriculture in order to increase soil health aspects, f.i. soil fertility but also minimize the risk of fire incidents by reducing the biomass leftover. Hereby, is presented an integrated, simple strategy that can be easily adapted by olive farmers in order to ensure best practices for applying cover crops and reduce pruning residues.

OLIVARES VIVOS+ Biodiversity as added value in agriculture: From ecosystem services to commercial differentiation in the case of Greece

Georgios Koubouris
LIFE Project Olivares Vivos+

Greece

LIFE Project Olivares Vivos+ (LIFE20 NAT/ES/001487) (hereafter OV+), is a demonstrative project that aims to replicate in main olive growing European Mediterranean countries, an innovative biodiversity friendly olive farming model, based in an agri-environmental scheme. It is designed by a previous LIFE project Olivares Vivos in Andalusia (southern Spain). A scientifically based certification for biodiversity recovery was developed to transfer the added value of this farming model to extra virgin olive oils, crossing thus the market.

Mixed grazing in upland woodlands: a management practice reducing habitat loss and forest fire risk

Lappa Vasiliki
The Agroforestry Network in Evrytania (AF4EU project)

Greece

Traditional extensive transhumance and beekeeping in the mountains of Evrytania in Central Greece are sustainable agroforestry practices that enhance the resilience of mountain communities and ecosystems. Their ecosystem services and the sustainable development of mountain communities are threatened by planned projects of linear installation of hundreds of wind turbines in the alpine meadows of the ridges. The Agroforestry Network in Evrytania (AF4EU project) supports multi-dimensional innovation in agroforestry and empowers small family farmers and small-scale farmers.

Community water management in the mountain communities of Evrytania: the example of Tornos

Lappa Vasiliki
The Agroforestry Network in Evrytania (AF4EU project)

Greece

The principles of communitarianism and sustainable management of natural resources for centuries in mountainous Evrytania have kept forests and mountain streams in good ecological condition and ensured food security and resilience for mountain communities. Today, the abandonment of productive activities and population decline, combined with changes in the microclimate of the region, are putting pressure on mountain ecosystems and local populations.

Increasing Resilience of Assets Facing the Risk of Wildfires

Pedro Pacheco
REN – Redes Energéticas Nacionais, SGPS, S.A.

Portugal

The Decision Support System (DSS) integrates a fire spread algorithm via an API from the IMFire system, developed by ADAI (University of Coimbra), into REN’s (Redes Energéticas Nacionais, SGPS, S.A. ) geographic portal. It uses fire ignition data detected by ANEPC and cameras equipped with visual and thermal sensors, installed on electrical pylons, to predict fire spread up to five hours after ignition. The DSS cross-references the simulated fire-affected areas with critical infrastructures, automatically alerting when a fire is expected to impact assets. The proposal is to integrate the Portuguese Living Labs into this system to enhance response measures.

Innovation Laboratory (InnoLab) approach to forest fire risk reduction: a successful story

Guilherme Saad
CiTUA, IST/ULisboa

Portugal

Social Innovation Research Group – SIRG (CiTUA/IST, Lisbon University) developed and applied in Monchique, a fire-prone area in southern Portugal (pilot case), an Innovation Laboratory approach (InnoLab Bridge), a participatory and collaborative approach that represents a collective (and innovative!) space to engage multiple actors (public, private and, mainly, local communities) in dialogue and sharing of different knowledges, visions and experiences related to forest territories. InnoLab Bridge contributed to broadening social learning, to co-creation of knowledge centred on key aspects of forest fire risk reduction and to promoting and strengthening local governance through a Local Action Group for sustainable forest management.

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