Ede Living Lab

Ede is located in the heart of the Netherlands, has around 115,000 inhabitants, two-thirds of whom reside in Ede-City. Its large rural area is home to several villages, intensive poultry and pork production, and the renowned De Hoge Veluwe National Park and Kröller-Müller Museum. As a typical representative of Dutch poly-centric urbanisation and part of the national Food Valley region, Ede is actively involved in crafting an urban food policy that aspires to integrate municipal policy areas such as public health, social welfare and sustainable regional development.

By actively mobilizing and engaging relevant stakeholders, the Ede Living Lab will further concentrate on better eco-system service delivery with the help of customized, participatory spatial planning tools, and explore how to facilitate rural business models that build on regional farming style diversification, novel forms of territory-based cooperation and different types of offset mechanisms between public and private goods.