All ECI Projects

The Oxford-based Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery undertakes research to help halt and reverse the ongoing loss and degradation of nature and its biodiversity.

This four-year, impact-oriented project will investigate how leaders across politics, business, and sport can play a vital role in driving climate action.

The Foresight4Food Initiative explores how foresight – a key tool for governments, business and civil society to better understand future risks and opportunities – and scenario analysis for the global food system could be improved.

Sustain-a-bite aims to overcome these issues through innovative, sustainable, and minimal processing methods to create nutritious, tasty, and affordable plant-based foods, aligning with the EU Green Deal’s Farm2Fork Strategy.

The Pathways to Flexibility project explores how households can play a more active role in the UK’s transition to a low-carbon energy system. By examining how everyday routines, technologies and behaviours shape energy use, it identifies practical ways to support more flexible demand.

The Regional Energy Planning and Heat project explores how Regional Energy Strategic Plans (RESPs) are shaping the transition to low-carbon heat across Great Britain. Focusing on how planning is organised, governed and delivered in practice, it examines how different actors, capabilities and forms of knowledge influence outcomes.

FoSSNet is a four-year Horizon Europe funded project dedicated to establish a long-lasting pan-European network for Food Systems Science, advancing open and inclusive science and education for food systems transformation. 

EDOL collects and shares high resolution energy-related data from 2000 representative households. A smaller number of households will take part in experiments with new technologies, business models and policy interventions.

The BrightSpace consortium aims to design effective and sustainable strategies to allow EU agriculture to flourish in a safe and just operating space.

CATALYSE is an interdisciplinary consortium whose mission is to further develop and communicate the health impacts of climate change, and respond to the urgent need for solutions.

Based at the Oxford Martin School, the Agile Initiative aims to revolutionise how world-class interdisciplinary, high-impact research supports environmental policymaking.

The PRISMA project aims to advance integrated assessment models by focusing on distributional justice and efficiency, innovation and finance, climate impacts and land-use, and lifestyle change and circularity.

Our research advances understanding of complex risks and brings together scientists, modellers, economists and practitioners to advance practical solutions to build resilience.

The CircEUlar project explores the dynamics and levers for societal transformation towards a net-zero emission circular economy.

FOSTR (Fostering food system transformation by integrating heterogeneous perspectives in knowledge and innovation within the European Research Area) aims to build a foundation for a new Knowledge and Innovation (K&I) governance structure for Europe’s food system.

The FoodCoST project brings together economic and environmental researchers at the frontier of food system modelling, and in collaboration with leading international organisations on the economics of food system transformation. 

The Co-Centre for Sustainable Food Systems encompasses a research programme of oriented basic and applied research in the areas of science, technology, engineering and social sciences across the Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland  and Great Britain.  It aims to assist the development and competitiveness of industry, enterprise

CAROWIA explores how biotechnology can enable the sustainable production of functional food ingredients and support healthier, more resilient food systems - using precision fermentation to produce nutrients such as β-carotene, a building block for multiple high-value functional ingredients.

The goal of this action research is to support regional African multi-actor food system transformation efforts through the development of, and dialogue around, a practical guide on ‘Quality Criteria and Evaluation Approaches for Guiding the Impact of Foresight in Food Systems Transformation’.