Co-creating sustainable land solutions across Europe, with Horizon Europe Support
LandShift unites innovation, local voices, and Nature-Based Solutions to create balanced land use and vibrant communities.
What is LandShift?
Rethinking how land is managed in Europe
LandShift is an EU-funded research project dedicated to transforming land-use planning and management for a climate-resilient future. By integrating innovative, evidence-based research with regional collaboration, LandShift aims to develop sustainable, inclusive, and efficient land-use solutions that align with the European Green Deal and the New European Bauhaus (NEB), ensuring that nature, people, and regional development thrive in balance together.
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LandShift Vision
At LandShift, we believe land is more than a resource, it is the foundation for thriving communities and resilient ecosystems. Guided by the New European Bauhaus principles of sustainability, aesthetics, and inclusiveness, we are reimagining how land is managed to create landscapes that are productive, beautiful, and deeply connected to local life.
Through co-creation, innovation, and collaboration, LandShift aims to deliver replicable models and a decision-support framework that empower regions and policymakers to design sustainable, climate-resilient landscapes for the future.
What?
Europe’s land is under increasing pressure. Climate change, biodiversity loss, soil degradation, and growing demands for agriculture, housing, and energy are creating complex land-use conflicts.
Traditional land management approaches are no longer sufficient to meet the urgent need for sustainability, resilience, and equal access to land resources.
Why?
Land is more than a resource. It is the foundation of Europe’s food systems, biodiversity, climate resilience, and community wellbeing.
Healthy, well-managed land promotes economic prosperity, safeguards vital ecosystems, and sustains livelihoods for millions of people.
Yet across Europe, land degradation, soil erosion, biodiversity loss, and the impacts of climate change are accelerating, putting at risk not only rural communities but the broader ambitions of a sustainable, climate-neutral Europe.
Why?
Land is more than a resource. It is the foundation of Europe’s food systems, biodiversity, climate resilience, and community wellbeing.
Healthy, well-managed land promotes economic prosperity, safeguards vital ecosystems, and sustains livelihoods for millions of people.
Yet across Europe, land degradation, soil erosion, biodiversity loss, and the impacts of climate change are accelerating, putting at risk not only rural communities but the broader ambitions of a sustainable, climate-neutral Europe.
How?
LandShift’s approach is built on innovation and science:
Earth Observation and Artificial Intelligence tools to monitor land, predict changes, and guide sustainable land-use decisions.
Nature-Based Solutions to develop regional strategies that protect biodiversity, support food security, and promote sustainable biomass production.
Living Spaces
LandShift’s Living Spaces are real-world regions across Europe where communities, researchers, and policymakers work together to design and test sustainable land-use solutions.
Each Living Space reflects different landscapes, challenges, and needs — from rural farming areas to forests and natural ecosystems — across France, Greece, Italy, Poland, and Ukraine.
By working directly with local actors, LandShift ensures that every solution is practical, inclusive, and ready to be adapted in other regions.
Latest News
Discover the latest updates, events, and project highlights
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LandShift Mid-Term Meeting in Warsaw: Strengthening Collaboration Across Living Spaces Last week, LandShift partners gathered in Warsaw for the project’s Mid-Term Consortium Meeting, marking an important milestone as the project moves into its second phase. Bringing...
Partners
LandShift brings together a diverse group of leading institutions and organisations, each contributing unique expertise and resources towards the shared goal of tackling climate challenges in land use. Specifically, the Consortium comprises twenty-six (26) partners from across Europe, led by the Eratosthenes Centre of Excellence from Cyprus.
