Our LAAs & the BIOTRAILS Learning Platform
The BIOTRAILS Learning and Action Alliances (LAAs) constitute a total of 6 engaged and inclusive communities comprised of a wide range of key stakeholders in the 4 value chains of the project (cocoa produced in Peru, fisheries and aquaculture in Greece, gold mined in Ghana, indigenous arts and crafts in the Brazilian Amazon), as well as in biodiversity-relevant transformative change themes.
Our LAA Communities
Cocoa LAA
If you are involved directly (producer, retailer, consumer) or indirectly (policy maker, academia) in the Cocoa Case study join this LAA!
Handicrafts LAA
If you are involved directly (producer, retailer, consumer) or indirectly (policy maker, academia) in the Handicrafts Case study join this LAA!
Aquaculture LAA
If you are involved directly (producer, retailer, consumer) or indirectly (policy maker, academia) in the Aquaculture Case study join this LAA!
Gold LAA
If you are involved directly (producer, retailer, consumer) or indirectly (policy maker, academia) in the Gold Case study join this LAA!
Inter-project LAA
Do you want to know more on cross-sectorial and multi-stakeholder learning on commonly encountered issues across the project’s case study-based LAAs? Join the Inter-project LAA!
Trans-project LAA
Are you part of a project/initiative/study that deals with transformative change, the climate-biodiversity-society nexus or the project’s methodologies?
These LAAs aim at fostering a fertile ground for cooperation and learning among involved stakeholders where they can freely share their knowledge and experience without the limitations of existing formal institutional settings. They aim to prioritize the joint development of knowledge and operate without established experts but instead be characterized by a mutual ownership atmosphere promoting co-creation and cooperation to facilitate the identification of enablers for transformative change.
Interested stakeholders may choose to join one or more of the 6 LAAs as those are presented below, when entering the BIOTRAILS Learning Platform.
BIOTRAILS Learning Platform
The BIOTRAILS Learning Platform acts as an online community and social learning space aiming to help support the fruitful collaboration and learning on challenges and opportunities for transformative change and the climate-biodiversity-society nexus management. In particular, the platform helps LAAs members connect, discuss and share experiences with other actors, participate in various co-creation activities of the project and be the first to test the project’s tools, validate our methods and learn different transitional pathways and solutions for a more sustainable value chain.
The platform contains a big community interaction space, providing a live feed, news feed and events sections, while it is organised in the 6 ‘LAAs’, which provide virtual spaces where members of the same LAA can work together on specific themes or challenges. Through the BIOTRAILS Learning Platform, LAAs can transcend geographical obstacles, encourage continuous learning and collaboration in both a synchronous and asynchronous manner and enable collective action towards common goals.