H2020 FRAMEwork

Brief

H2020 FRAMEwork was a €7.9m EU Horizon 2020 project (2020–2025) that piloted the UK's successful Farmer Cluster concept in the EU for the first time. The core question it explored was whether groups of neighbouring farmers in diverse European regions could improve biodiversity and ecosystem services at a landscape scale.

The project took a bottom-up approach, connecting farmers and their communities through technical support, peer networks and community engagement. Work focused on improving on-farm functional biodiversity, ecosystem services, natural heritage and local environmental reputations.

It was funded to inform transitions in EU and UK policy as the costs of ecosystem degradation and biodiversity loss become increasingly clear, and nations implement or explore collective land management approaches that scale up positive impacts and leverage new technologies.

Activity

• Taskscape helped develop the original project proposal and convened early meetings in Brussels. Once funded, we served as communication, knowledge exchange and participation partner within the coordinating Work Package, and as a key partner in the project's digital Work Package.
• We provided consultancy, workflows and content to every consortium partner and project team, and provided the project's collaborative workspace, which hosted over 100,000 activities and 15,300 files.
• We worked closely with the International Institute of Advanced Systems Analysis to position, brand, design, populate, launch and promote the project's Info Hub Recodo
• We built and maintained the project website, developed legacy strategy, produced extensive media content and multi-channel outreach, and organised a dedicated events series across Europe.
• Throughout, we helped ensure that knowledge from across the project's 11 Clusters in 10 countries fed into project materials and tools, deploying specialist consultancy, innovative AI workflows, brand development, translation, media training and design services. MD Alastair Simmons served as Deputy Coordinator for the project's final two years.

Outcomes

• Successfully supported the project in piloting or establishing 11 Farmer Clusters in 10 European countries (implementing practical management changes across over 240 km² of farmland and biodiversity monitoring across 12,000+ hectares) and creating and disseminating associated research, courses and tools.
• Co-developed the Recodo knowledge hub, creating associated content marketing channels, gaining thousands of interactions, followers and views across platforms
• Helped engage over 20,000 people through events and online media, with stakeholder engagement rated exceptional in the project's formal review and joined-up delivery highlighted