RECOMS | Resourceful and resilient communities

New RECOMS fellow wanted...

We are looking for a new research fellow for the position on Transforming the Bavarian...
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What is RECOMS?

RECOMS is a Marie Sklodowska Curie (MSCA) Innovative Training Network funded by the...
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RECOMS Trainings

Through a bespoke programme of advanced training events, courses, secondments and...
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Explore the research themes...

Unlocking and Empowering, Adapting and Transforming, Connecting and Collaborating
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Unlocking and Empowering

Urban Agroecology for Health and Wellbeing, Co-creating Urban...

Adapting and Transforming

Transforming Urban Environments: a Collaborative Approach,...

Connecting and Collaborating

Building Coalitions: Socio-Spatial Planning, Climate...

A relational understanding of farms as and adaptive social-ecological systems

Farms as Coupled Social-Ecological Systems

Citizenship and Responsive Governance

Community transformation and Ecological Restoration in Portland, Oregon, and Munich, Bavaria

Transformation and Restoration: Portland and Munich

Building Coalitions: Socio-Spatial Planning

Green Economies and Ecosystem Services

Transforming the Bavarian Forest: Historical Perspective

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Sep 16

Vaasa, Finland - RECOMS First Training

Detailed description of training In 16-23 September 2018 in Vaasa, Finland RECOMS will hold its first training. The...

Feb 01

Action Learning training event in Coventry

Detailed description of training Our first 12 days Action Learning training event in Coventry, UK in...

Aug 01

Action Learning training event in Groningen, the Netherlands

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF EVENT RECOMS third big event, the second Action Learning Project event ...

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Kick off meeting

Saturday, March 29, 2014 - 08:18

The RECOMS kick off meeting took place on 26-28th March, 2018 in Coventry where all partners gathered to launch the project and lay the basis of cooperation for the upcoming 4 years of the project. During the kick-off meeting, besides planning...

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latest news & announcements

The winding paths to Food Democracy

Monday, December 3, 2018 - 13:34

Stephen Leitheiser, RECOMS fellow recently attended the second annual Vernetzungskongress der Ernährungsräte (Congress for German-speaking Food Policy Councils) which took place in Frankfurt from 23-25 November 2018. Here representatives...

Exploring The Political Dimensions Of Food - Berlin is hungry for Food Sovereignty

Thursday, November 8, 2018 - 13:52

Citizen-led Food Policy Councils (FPCs, called an Ernährungsratin Germany) have been long-standing in the United States and Canada. But, in recent years Europe has seen an increasing emergence of food initiatives seeking transformative...

New Fellow Wanted

Monday, October 29, 2018 - 14:35

The Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society (LMU Munich) is seeking a highly motivated Early Stage Researcher (ESR) to undertake doctoral studies and participate in a broad range of scientific and professional training as part of an...

RECOMS team gathers for first training in Finland

Wednesday, September 26, 2018 - 11:11

The whole RECOMS group gathered for the first time between 16th and 21st September in Vaasa, Finland to have its first training event about photography as well as resilience, resourcefulness and vulnerability. The fifteen fellows and their...

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