MULTAGRI will investigate how governance of agricultural landscapes can promote rural development by harnessing landscape and biological diversity as assets to promote the provisioning of public goods and sustainable intensification of agricultural production. We will do this by: * Determining empirically the spatial scale affecting a number of key farmland ecosystem services * Determining synergies and trade-offs between production of public goods and generation of supporting/regulating ecosystem services. * Valuing ecosystem services and public goods produced by European farms as a result of ecological intensification. * Modelling how payments for public goods and ecosystem services will affect regional agricultural development. * Assessing the multi-level governance system under which European farmers operate to understand how and why farmers choose to adopt specific management actions at farm and landscape scales. * Evaluating how European agricultural policies can contribute to more sustainable farming systems with payments for public goods and ecosystem services. * Disseminating project results effectively to both the scientific community and to stakeholders, particularly policy makers and farmers, but even the general public. To this end MULTAGRI coordinates scientific expertise across disciplinary divides and across European rural landscapes, to promote cross-disciplinary interaction among natural and social scientists and science-policy dialogue through mutual transdisciplinary interaction with stakeholders. The end product will be a synthesis: Governing rural land use and landscapes to support sustainable development.

Adolescent young carers (AYCs) are young people (15-17 years old) providing significant or substantial care, assistance or support to other family members. The phenomenon is highly relevant across Europe, albeit specific data, awareness and supports are not frequently available. Taking on a caring role constitutes a relevant risk factor for the occurrence of both immediate and long-term problems in AYCs’ mental health, well-being and development, as well as for their transitions to adulthood, social inclusion, education and employability. The goal of the project is to strengthen the resilience of AYCs, improve their mental health and well-being, and mitigate the negative influences of psychosocial and environmental factors. The project develops an innovative framework of primary prevention interventions to be tested and adapted in six European countries (Italy, Netherlands, Slovenia, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom) at different stages of awareness and development of services for AYCs. The project has three specific objectives: (1) to systematise knowledge on AYCs; (2) to co-design, test and deliver psychosocial interventions in six countries; (3) to evaluate what works and provide knowledge translation actions at national, European and international levels. The project adopts an interdisciplinary approach by complementing expertise and longstanding experience of partners. The consortium includes Eurocarers members, research and carers organisations, working together with and for AYCs. AYCs will be continuously involved in the project – together with other stakeholders – via national Blended Learning Networks, user groups, workshops, and in an International Advisory and Ethics Board. The project will have international impact, improving AYCs’ mental health and well-being, educational outcomes, transition, employability and social inclusion, as well as creating evidence-based practices, to improve health equity and societal benefits.