The Granollers City Council, the Spanish Network of Municipalities for Agroecology (Red de Municipios por la Agroecología), and the Horizon EU project LiveSeeding are organizing the 1st European Symposium “Fostering Cultivated Biodiversity through Local Food Policies” on April 29-30, 2025, in Granollers (Barcelona Metropolitan Area).
This event aims to create a political and communicative momentum at the European level:
– to strengthen the integration of cultivated biodiversity in municipal actions as a tool for building sustainable, healthy, and biodiverse local food systems, and
– to establish the necessary alliances to support this effort.
The Symposium will, upon invitation, bring together around one hundred technical and political representatives from European municipalities active in the field, as well as other key stakeholders in the areas of organic production, cultivated biodiversity, sustainable food systems, and agroecology, both from research and civil society organizations.
Over the course of the two-day event, participants will engage in collective reflection and exchange of knowledge, successful experiences, and municipal practices to shape local policies that integrate cultivated biodiversity and organic seeds into city-region agri-food systems. The shared outcome will be the Declaration titled “Fostering Cultivated Biodiversity in European Municipalities”.
We encourage all interested European municipalities that are either actively engaged in or interested in initiating actions related to cultivated biodiversity to complete the survey below, as this will allow us to follow up directly regarding participation opportunities. The LiveSeeding partners, civil society entities, research organizations, or members of the food chain interested in this symposium are also welcome to complete the survey. While space for the event is limited, we are committed to accommodating as many municipalities as possible.
By spreading the word and encouraging survey completion, you can help ensure that European municipalities have the opportunity to collaborate, share insights, and contribute to progress on this important topic.
DEADLINE FOR RESPONSES: 17 January 2025
