Brightspace

Background and Objective

Policy makers and opinion leaders often lack sufficient information to gauge the likely effects of a SJOS crises in their country. The BrightSpace collaboration responds to this challenge by designing effective and sustainable strategies to navigate within a SJOS. BrightSpace provides an analytical toolbox to experiment, analyse, and coordinate the effects of innovative technologies, governance structures, as well as short- and long-term policies related to agriculture, thereby allowing for the execution of consistent, coherent, and lasting strategies with the desired consequences. The project emphasises the diversity of challenges regarding the SJOS across countries and regions and delivers new empirical evidence on cause-effect relations between drivers and outcomes relevant for the SJOS. A harmonised data framework and modelling toolbox are developed for medium-term and forward-looking projections of possible SJOS futures by 2050 and beyond. The support for effective and sustainable actions will include the identification of critical pathways for technological, institutional and consumer-oriented options for EU policies in the areas of agriculture, climate change, trade, and energy.

Approach

The BrightSpace Agricultural SJOS Platform to interact with key stakeholders will be built on three methodological pillars, the DETERMINATION, the FUTURE and GUIDANCE pillar.  The work in the BrightSpace project will be structured following the four specific objectives which match the three pillars and the platform. The pillars address the first three specific objectives: 1) to identify the SJOS indicators and their determinants, to quantify the SJOS state of European Agriculture now and in the future, 2) to propose a roadmap consisting of innovative technologies and 3) polices to provide guidance to place European Agriculture within the SJOS.