Project description
Food sharing innovation supporting resilient and sustainable food systems
The EU-funded CULTIVATE project will support greater sustainability and resilience around food through a ground-breaking online social innovation platform – the Food Sharing Compass. Designed with and for food sharing initiatives (from seed sharing and social dining to surplus food redistribution and community composting), policymakers, food supply actors, researchers and citizens, the platform will make it possible to navigate sustainable food sharing landscapes. It comprises five tools: the SHARECITY200 Database (mapping, tracking and monitoring initiatives), the Food Sharing Calculator (assessing costs, benefits and impacts), the Menu of Good Governance (options for policies to facilitate sustainable food sharing), the Library of Citizen Engagement (cataloguing tools for expanding food sharing activity) and the sustainable food sharing Community of Practice for food sharing initiatives.
Objective
CULTIVATE uses a multi-actor approach to build sustainability and resilience in urban and peri-urban areas through a ground-breaking online social innovation support platform – The Food Sharing Compass. Built with and for five key stakeholder groups – food sharing initiatives, policy makers, food supply actors, researchers and citizens – the platform will make it possible to navigate diverse food sharing landscapes and cultures, in order to understand, develop, replicate, expand and strengthen sustainable food sharing in Europe, supporting the European Green Deal’s Action Plan, Food 2030, the Farm to Fork Strategy and the EU’s climate change ambitions. The open access Food Sharing Compass will comprise five innovative tools: The SHARECITY200 Database, an interactive automated mapping, tracking and monitoring database of food sharing initiatives that will add more than 100 new locations to the SHARECITY100 Database [https://sharecity.ie/research/sharecity100-database/]; The Food Sharing Calculator, which enables comprehensive and holistic assessment of the costs, benefits and impacts of food sharing for all stakeholders; The Menu of Good Governance, which provides options for developing policy making which facilitates sustainable food sharing; The Library of Citizen Engagement, which supports establishing, expanding and maintaining inclusive participation in sustainable food sharing; The sustainable food sharing Community of Practice, which will be established through a bespoke Amplification Programme to optimise the potential for mutual learning and exploitation of the Food Sharing Compass well beyond the project. In essence, CULTIVATE will establish the EU as the global frontrunner in the development of resilient and inclusive food sharing economies, identifying drivers and implementation gaps and challenging existing theories and practices which currently constrain sustainable food sharing.
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HORIZON-IA - HORIZON Innovation ActionsCoordinator
D02 CX56 DUBLIN 2
Ireland
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Participants (17)
24 Dublin
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D08 RF3F DUBLIN 8
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6708 PB Wageningen
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3521 AZ Utrecht
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08007 Barcelona
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08010 Barcelona
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20121 Milano
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79098 Freiburg Im Breisgau
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22100 Lund
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1100 325 LISBOA
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79098 Freiburg
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157 73 Zografoy
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26900 Lodi
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9 Dublin
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08027 Barcelona
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60300 Brno
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Partners (1)
BN1 3XG Brighton
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.