Project description
Innovations for sustainable short food supply chains
Short food supply chains play a crucial role in the EU’s agri-food system. It is imperative to enhance the sustainability and competitiveness of this sector. The EU-funded SMARTCHAIN project aims to promote and expedite the transition towards collaborative short food supply chains. This will be accomplished through concrete actions, recommendations, the development of robust business models, and the introduction of innovative solutions. The project will conduct an analysis of 18 case studies, examining various technological, regulatory, social, economic, and environmental factors. Furthermore, it will assess the interconnectedness and interactions among all stakeholders involved in short food supply chains. By doing so, the project will identify critical parameters that influence sustainable food production and rural development across different European regions.
Objective
SMARTCHAIN is an ambitious, 3 year project with 43 partners from 11 European countries including key stakeholders from the domain of short food supply chain as actors in the project. The central objective is to foster and accelerate the shift towards collaborative short food supply chains and, through concrete actions and recommendations, to introduce new robust business models and innovative practical solutions that enhance the competitiveness and sustainability of the European agri-food system.
Using bottom-up, demand-driven research, the SMARTCHAIN consortium i) will perform a multi-perspective analysis of 18 case studies of short food supply chains in terms of technological, regulatory, social, economic and environmental factors, ii) will assess the linkages and interactions among all stakeholders involved in short food supply chains and iii) will identify the key parameters that influence sustainable food production and rural development among different regions in Europe.
The project aims to establish 9 national communities of short food supply chains (Innovation and Collaboration Hubs) in different partner countries (France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Serbia, Spain and Switzerland) and a virtual innovation hub in order to facilitate stakeholder engagement, bringing farmers and consumers together in a trust-enhancing environment enabling them to generate demand driven-innovations.
Combination of scientific and practical knowledge and the use of innovation workshops will enable the development of practical innovative solutions as well as the promotion of a framework for different forms of collaborative short food supply chains in urban and rural areas. SMARTCHAIN will generate concrete actions for knowledge transfer, through the organisation of multi-stakeholder workshops and training activities for farmers and short food supply chain entrepreneurs.
Fields of science
- agricultural sciencesagriculture, forestry, and fisheriesagriculturesustainable agriculture
- social scienceseconomics and businessbusiness and managementinnovation management
- social scienceseconomics and businessbusiness and managemententrepreneurship
- social scienceseconomics and businessbusiness and managementbusiness models
Programme(s)
- H2020-EU.3.2. - SOCIETAL CHALLENGES - Food security, sustainable agriculture and forestry, marine, maritime and inland water research, and the bioeconomy Main Programme
- H2020-EU.3.2.1.3. - Empowerment of rural areas, support to policies and rural innovation
- H2020-EU.3.2.2.3. - A sustainable and competitive agri-food industry
Funding Scheme
RIA - Research and Innovation actionCoordinator
70599 Stuttgart
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Participants (44)
82327 TUTZING
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40126 Bologna
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10124 Torino
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70010 Valenzano
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70124 Bari
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00186 Roma
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3584 CS Utrecht
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6708 PB Wageningen
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6708 PV WAGENINGEN
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75595 PARIS
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74100 Rethimno
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1096 Budapest
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6000 KECSKEMET
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11080 Belgrade
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11080 Beograd
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48395 Sukarrieta
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23620 Mengibar Jaen
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06011 BADAJOZ
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3003 Bern
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1070 Wien
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1040 Bruxelles / Brussel
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1000 Bruxelles / Brussel
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1040 Bruxelles / Brussel
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1040 BRUXELLES
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24568 Kattendorf
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26121 Oldenburg
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40024 Castel San Pietro Terme
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40132 BOLOGNA
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3992 LX Houten
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1013 BE AMSTERDAM
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75014 Paris
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04210 VALENSOLE
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20100 KORINTHIAS
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731 32 XANIA
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2091 Etyek
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8790 ZALASZENTGROT
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32000 CACAK
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36000 KRALJEVO
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01003 VITORIA GASTEIZ
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48180 LOIU
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1963 Vetroz
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1335 LC ALMERE
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06011 Badajoz
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