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The SFS Innovation Platform is a content-focused online environment for those interested in sustainable food production and wish to keep up to date. Individuals can use this platform to market their initiative(s) and/or innovation(s), while EU projects can utilize it to publicize knowledge regarding their Case Studies/Pilot Cases/Living Labs, Practice Abstracts, and other dissemination materials. The Platform allows all to search publications and weblinks related to sustainable foods and to the projects that are platform contributors.

The i2connect project is seeking to strengthen advisors’ and their organizations’ abilities to engage and support farmers and foresters in interactive innovation processes. The i2connect project is developing a support network and a networking culture among advisers to aid in the process of innovation in European agriculture and forestry. Serving this purpose, the i2connect platform includes a searchable data base of contact information from individual advisors, as well as organizations to matchmake SFSC actors’ needs with existing advisory services.

SMARTCHAIN was an ambitious three-year project and is a direct predecessor project of EU4Advice. SMARTCHAIN aimed at accelerating the shift towards collaborative short food supply chains by introducing robust business models and innovative practical solutions that enhance the competitiveness and sustainability of the European agri-food system. The project established 9 national communities of short food supply chains in different EU countries 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.

SKIN was an ambitious initiative of 20 partners in 14 countries in the area of Short Food Supply Chains (SFSCs) and was concluded in 2019. It intended to systematise and bring knowledge to practitioners, promote collaboration within a demand-driven innovation logic and provide inputs to policymaking through links to the EIP-AGRI. SKIN built and animated a community of about 500 stakeholders, with the strategic objective of setting up a European association permanently working for the improvement of SFSCs efficiency and for the benefit of stakeholders and growth in the sector.

CleverFood will help get people from across society involved in transforming Europe’s food system in line with the EU Food 2030 Policy Framework, Farm to Fork Strategy, EU Missions, EU Bioeconomy Strategy, the European Urban Initiatives and Fit for 55 Package. The goal of the project is to pave the way for a fair, healthy and sustainable food system. To do this, it will support new and current projects, partnerships and networks with a joined-up and collaborative approach. The methodology used is made of: 1) Policy Labs, 2) Living Labs and 3) Pan-European multi-actor and public engagement. This will allow us to mobilise society to transform food systems by establishing the FOOD 2030 Project Collaboration Network and the FOOD 2030 Connected Lab Network.

FoodCLIC brings together actors from politics, science, and civil society to support the development of integrated urban food policies—i.e. policies that facilitate the accessibility and availability of healthy and sustainably produced food for all people, particularly vulnerable communities. Given the interconnectedness of food concerns with other (policy) sectors, FoodCLIC wants to ensure that urban planning always incorporates food considerations.
FoodCLIC is a four-year EU-funded project that runs from September 2022 to February 2027.

The European project DIVINFOOD (funded from European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme) aims to develop food chains that value under-utilised agrobiodiversity in order to act against the decline of biodiversity and to meet the growing expectations of consumers for healthy, local products that contribute to sustainable food systems.The project brings together 26 partners from 7 countries (Denmark, France, Hungary, Italy, Portugal, Sweden and Switzerland) and relies on 9 living labs to encourage participatory research. The long-term societal challenge is to structure and stabilise territorial networks for collective management of agrobiodiversity, with a view to an economy of the commons that values the ecosystem services provided by the use of underused species and varieties.

Watson is a 3-year project funded by the Horizon Europe programme to tackle fraudulent practices in the food supply chain. Their interdisciplinary consortium of 47 partners from 20 EU and non-EU countries is working together to develop a holistic traceability framework that integrates data-driven services, intelligence-based toolsets and risk-estimation approaches, enabling food safety authorities to detect and prevent food fraud more effectively.