The FOSTER Academy: A co-learning structure to enhance integration of citizen science within the ERA

FOSTER的愿景是为欧洲食品系统建立一个新的知识和创新系统（KIS）奠定基础。目前的结构不足以应对以健康和可持续的方式滋养人民的新挑战。关键目标是深入了解如何才能建立一个更具包容性和更好的治理。FOSTER将帮助改变欧洲的粮食系统成果，并将通过以下方式实现这一目标：-建立一个FOSTER平台，包括粮食系统的最先进的知识，通过半自动化地平线扫描，趋势和威胁分析，以及欧盟粮食系统到2040年的新的多维场景的前瞻性;实施FOSTER学院-包括4所暑期学校-以整合粮食系统相关学科和公民科学，提高整个ERA对粮食系统的理解;- 在六个国家范围内启动和评估共同创造和共同学习进程。区域公民驱动的倡议，其中获得新的知识，战略和行动研究成果; -扩大和深入的公民驱动的倡议解决方案和方法，以适应其他地区的情况; -研究不同的R&I机制，为粮食系统转型的任务导向的R&I政策提供政策支持，并在每个公民驱动的倡议中进行分析和论证;- 通过与外部专家共同学习加强科学与政策的互动，并为适合不同地区和部门的粮食系统研究和创新政策制定建议; -确定触发点，以帮助“解锁”系统锁定，并支持进一步推动系统转型;- 对FOSTER的所有共同学习活动进行反思性监测，以深入了解如何将KIS从农业KIS扩展到食品系统KIS。为了鼓励采用FOSTER学习成果，将举办20多个讲习班和最后一次会议;将广泛传播科学立场文件和政策简报。

The vision of FOSTER is to build a foundation from which a new Knowledge and Innovation System (KIS) for Europe’s food system can emerge. The current structure is insufficient to address the emerging challenges of nourishing people in a healthy and sustainable way. Key objective is to gain insights into how it can be built to be more inclusive and better governed. FOSTER shall help to transform Europe’sfood system outcomes and will achieve this by: - building a FOSTER Platform including food system-state of the art knowledge, foresight by semi-automated Horizon scanning, trend and threats-analysis and new multi-dimensional scenarios of EU food systems to 2040; - implementing the FOSTER Academy -including 4 Summer Schools- for integrating food system-related disciplines and citizen science to enhance food system understanding across the ERA; - initiating and assessing a co-creation and co-learning process within six national resp. regional Citizen Driven Initiatives (CDIs), in which new knowledge, strategies and Action Research Agendas are gained; - scaling out and deep CDIs solutions and approaches to other territorial contexts; - studying different R&I mechanisms of policy support for mission-oriented R&I policy for food systems transformation, and analysing and ground-proofing them in each CDI; - strengthening science-policy interfaces by co-learning processes with external experts and developing recommendations for food systems R&I policies tailored to different geographies and sectors; - identifying the trigger pointsto help ‘unlock’system lock-ins and support further dynamics towards system transformation; - and applying reflective monitoring on all FOSTER’s co-learning activities to develop insights into how the KIS can be broadened from an agricultural-KIS to a food system-KIS. To inspire adoption of FOSTER learnings, over 20 workshops and a final conference will be conducted; scientific position papers and policy briefs will be widely communicated.