Deliverables

EU4Advice – Deliverable 2.2 – Analysis of the key success factors and barriers to the delivery of SFSC advice in AKIS

The multi-actor workshops held by EU4Advice across Hungary, the Netherlands, Spain, and Ireland provided valuable insights into the delivery of Short Food Supply Chain (SFSC) advice within Agricultural Knowledge and Innovation Systems (AKIS). Through collaborative discussions involving stakeholders from various sectors, including farmers, policymakers, researchers, and community representatives, several common themes emerged (and are compiled in this deliverable) highlighting both opportunities and challenges in advancing SFSC initiatives.

EU4Advice – Deliverable 2.1 List of minimum requirements to comply with CAP Strategic Plans

The aim of this report is to find minimum criteria, characteristics of Short Food Supply Chain (SFSC) advisors and to recommend a checklist for those who give advice for SFSC actors. The overall objective of recommending such a selection criteria framework for SFSC advisors is to support the integration into the EU SFSC Knowledge Transfer Network and of prerequisites for advisory services to be integrated into national AKIS and comply with national CAP Strategic Plans. Each country has a different background and SFSC ecosystem thus the established checklist of core requirements for the SFSC advisors is only a recommendation, a guideline which can be used by the Member States (MSs) for the integration into their National AKIS.

SMARTCHAIN – D7.3 Best practice guide for the implementation of innovative solutions in SFSCs

Author(s): Eduardo Puértolas, Raquel Rodríguez, Izaskun Pérez, Alberto González, Xabier Murgui (AZTI); András Sebők, Agnes Szegedyné Fricz, Kinga Varsanyi (CBHU); Annarita Antonelli (IAMB); Gerald Herrmann, Annette Sutter, Nina Kuljian (OS); Mirjana Pesic, Lazar Zivkovic, Viktor Nedovic (UOB); Alice Petrini, Silvana Nicola (UNITO)

The main objective of WP 7 (Business and Policy Recommendations) was to generate a collection of tools as well as business and policy recommendations to implement innovative solutions in SFSCs, primarily improving the competitiveness and sustainability of SFSCs and making them smarter and more equitable, inclusive, and sustainable.

SMARTCHAIN – D6.9 Functioning short food supply chain stakeholders community in the SMARTCHAIN platform

Author(s): Bob Massar (AMP), Danika Moore (AMP), Maria Fritz (L2L), Javier Casado (UHOH), Katherine Flynn (IFA), Ana Ramalho (IFA), Marc van Woudenberg (AMP)

This document presents the strategies and activities executed for the SFSC stakeholder community building based on the GAIN transition model and related gamification dynamics presented in Deliverable D6.8 "Design for the basic gamification model and community building". The objective of this paper is to present the achieved results of building this short food supply chain stakeholder community and interlinking this community to the SMARTCHAIN innovation platform.

SMARTCHAIN – D4.4 Report on the consumer online survey results

Author(s): Verena Hüttl-Maack, Dennis Gawlik (UHOH), Eugenia Petropoulou, Theo Benos (UOC), Betty Chang, Camila Massri (EUFIC), Adrienn Hegyi, Ágnes Szegedyné Fricz (CBHU), Viktória Szente, Katalin Kujáni, Ágnes Major (KIS), Elena Santa Cruz, Sonia García Muñoz (AZTI), Camille Aouinaït (WBF), Marieke Lameris (NBC),

The central objective of this study was to determine what motivates consumers from four different European countries (Germany, Greece, Hungary and Spain) to buy, or what prevents them from buying, from short food supply chains (SFSCs). Another goal was to study the attitudes and expectations of consumers towards SFSCs and identify those customers who showed a particularly strong inclination to buy from SFSCs, based on personal characteristics and general purchasing behaviour.