Project description
Innovation for reduced food loss and waste
World hunger is on the rise, yet a third of all food produced globally goes to waste. The EU-funded ZeroW project aims to provide significant contributions to preventing and reducing food waste and enhancing the sustainability of food supply chains. Specifically, ZeroW will carry out the demonstration of diverse innovations in nine real-life food chains, employing a systemic innovation approach to effectively address the multidimensional issue of food waste. Moreover, the project will justify how scaling up the results of the demonstrated innovations, and combining them with appropriate policies, can bring us closer to the Green Deal’s 2030 food waste reduction goals.
Objective
ZeroW has set the ambitious target of playing a key role in the transition of current food systems towards halving Food Loss & Waste (FLW) by 2030 and reaching near-zero FLW by 2050.
ZeroW provides significant impacts through the demonstration of innovations in nine real-life food chains, by employing a systemic innovation approach, to effectively address the multidimensional issue of FLW. This involves:
(i) pre-identifying systemic innovations, that incorporate multiple interlinked dimensions (process, organisational, strategy, marketing, product, technological, governance, etc.), which are tested and demonstrated;
(ii) steering the evolution of innovations towards higher levels of systemic readiness and impact, using a Living Lab co-creation and multi-actor collective learning approach;
(iii) enhancing the Living Lab actors’ innovation advancement capability with shared resources facilitating new ways and means of cooperating and co-developing innovations;
(iv) developing context-specific trajectories for the systemic innovations (from ideation to scaling-up and commercialisation) leading to the provision of currently missing end products and services that align with consumer attitudes, food actor needs and policy trends.
Moreover, ZeroW establishes a clear ‘FLW impact trajectory’, from demonstrator results (2025), scaled up to meet the F2F 2030 goals, and steered through a ‘just transition pathway’ towards a near-zero FLW in 2050.
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V93 PPA0 KERRY
Ireland
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145 61 Athina
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6708 PB Wageningen
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2595 DA Den Haag
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X91 K0EK Waterford
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21000 Novi Sad
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10117 Tallinn
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9820 Merelbeke
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1000 Bruxelles / Brussel
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8830 Tjele
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2000 Antwerpen
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50018 Zaragoza
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12 Dublin
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9000 Murska Sobota
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40127 Bologna
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46980 Paterna
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400067 Cluj-Napoca
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407039 Apahida
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41092 Sevilla
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41012 Sevilla
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LT-08412 Vilnius
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7034 Trondheim
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5037 AB Tilburg
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28100 Novara
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4470-177 Maia
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4464-503 Senhora Da Hora
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18740 Granada
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03820 Cocentaina Alicante
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89167 Mazeikiai
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54333 BABTAI
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LT-44354 KAUNAS
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D02 XE80 LOWER DUBLIN
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EC1V 2NX London
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2445-413 Pataias
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4704 553 Braga
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106 82 ATHINA
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3000 Leuven
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2800 Mechelen
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79098 Freiburg Im Breisgau
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9000 Murska Sobota
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2000 Maribor
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34746 Haifa
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49610 Quakenbruck
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33180 Norena
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50197 Zaragoza
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03801 Alcoy
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48230 Elorrio
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3511 Hasselt
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4814 DC Breda
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145 61 KIFISIA
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1082 BERCHEM-SAINTE-AGATHE
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