From the research prospective, the ARCADIA project is a multidisciplinary project connecting two SDU faculties: the Faculty of Science (Department of Biology - Ecology Research Unit( and the Faculty of Health Sciences with "DRIVEN"- Danish Centre for Motivation and Behavior Science.
The role of the SDU’s Faculty of Science, Department of Biology, in ARCADIA will be as scientific advisors to the WP5, led by the Odense Municipality, for creating a vision of and strategy for nature-based transformation to resilience with the main goals of stimulating smarter, faster, systemic and detecting the Natural Based Solutions triggered transformation to resilience at local & regional level. The team will support the development of experimental co-innovation labs for building open co-innovation laboratories to design, test and foster adoption of the most promising approaches. Furthermore, the researchers will support in setting up the regional impact-to-scale strategy and plan by stimulating conditions for transformation across sectors & policies, also in cooperation with WP7.
Three PI are involved within the Faculty of Science: Associate Professor Gary Banta (Head of the Department of Biology), Associate Professor Sara Egemose, and Associate Professor Paula Canal Verges.
The Danish Centre for Motivation and Behaviour Science (DRIVEN) at the Faculty of Health Sciences plays a crucial role in WP 7, leading task 7.2 participating in the design of theory-informed surveys and interviews to understand attitudes, values, and preferences for different potential nature-based solutions, such as vegetated drainage beds, artificial wetlands, coastal meadows, and rainwater ponds. These studies will target citizens and businesses in Funen. The Faculty of Health Sciences will lead WP 7.3, where we will co-develop guidance for the Funen region (and a template for other regions in ARCADIA), to help them achieve behavior change in a structured, systematic, and evidence-based manner. The guidance will help them develop new or modify existing behavior change interventions for nature-based solutions, targeting a range of individual, social, and policy factors.
From the Faculty of Health Sciences, Professor Nikos Ntoumanis and Professor Cecilie Thøgersen-Ntoumani are participating in the project.