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From Mapping to Action presents a practical four-step guide—Scan, Select, Shape, Support—for turning living heritage into concrete climate and sustainability projects. The article shows how traditional practices such as grafting, pruning, espalier, and storage methods can be mapped against local environmental challenges like heat stress, biodiversity loss, and food waste. By combining participatory mapping, smart prioritisation, project design, and ethical safeguards, communities and educators can co-create high-impact, realistic initiatives that build climate resilience over time. The approach is cyclical, accessible, and adaptable, making it a replicable method for transforming local heritage knowledge into durable climate action.

Designing Change: How Transition Design Turns Heritage into Climate Action explains how transition design helps move beyond isolated sustainability projects toward long-term systemic change. Using the Fruitful Synergy project as a case, the article shows how living fruit heritage—such as grafting, pruning, and traditional varieties—can become a practical knowledge base for climate resilience, biodiversity, and place-based education. Through the four-phase From Tradition to Transition cycle (Scan, Select, Shape, Support), communities, educators, and heritage bearers co-design ethical, durable initiatives that connect local practices to long-term environmental transitions. The result is a replicable method that transforms heritage from static tradition into an active driver of climate action and resilient futures.

From Roots to Resilience shows how Europe’s living fruit heritage—such as pruning, grafting, and local varieties—can play a crucial role in climate adaptation, biodiversity, and community building. The article connects intangible cultural heritage with sustainable development and demonstrates how traditional fruit knowledge contributes to resilient landscapes and future-proof food systems. Through the Erasmus+ project Fruitful Synergy and the From Tradition to Transition methodology (Scan, Select, Shape, Support), young people, heritage bearers, and communities work together to turn local fruit practices into concrete responses to today’s environmental challenges. The result: heritage not as something from the past, but as a living compass for a sustainable European future.

Innovaties zoals Audio Overview, een nieuwe functie in Google’s NotebookLM, maken het mogelijk om PDF’s en artikelen om te zetten in podcasts, wat de toegankelijkheid van informatie aanzienlijk vergroot. Dit AI-gedreven proces biedt gebruikers de mogelijkheid om documenten in gesprek te “verkennen” en wordt geprezen vanwege de entertainmentwaarde en feitelijke controleerbaarheid. Deze ontwikkeling heeft potentieel grote impact op onderwijs en kennisoverdracht. Daarnaast wordt de techniek besproken in de context van de Makathon Fort bij Aalsmeer, waar AI een rol speelde in het ondersteunen van jongeren bij het Design Thinking proces.

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