Systemic Innovations Towards a Zero Food Waste Supply Chain

Project Information

ZeroW

Grant agreement ID: 101036388

DOI

10.3030/101036388

Project closed

EC signature date 3 September 2021

Start date 1 January 2022

End date 31 December 2025

Funded under

• SOCIETAL CHALLENGES - Food security, sustainable agriculture and forestry, marine, maritime and inland water research, and the bioeconomy

Total cost

€ 12 932 881,25

EU contribution

€ 11 999 733,50

Coordinated by

INLECOM COMMERCIAL PATHWAYS COMPANYLIMITED BY GUARANTEE
Ireland

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Deliverables

Documents, reports (14)

Customer Validation & Solution Alignment

Customer Validation & Solution Alignment - Will distil the customer value proposition to achieve a predictable & sustainable licencing and commercial trajectory.

SotA, requirements, initiatives

SotA requirements initiatives

FLW economic model

FLW economic model – Will deliver a SILL-validated model.

Scale-up success factors and targeted EU regions

Scale-up success factors and targeted EU regions – Will define critical success factors for innovation scale-up and identify high-potential EU regions, R, PU, Internal version 1 M18, Final version M28.

Systemic Innovation maturity gaps

Systemic Innovation maturity gaps Will address gaps required by the demonstrations

Reference document with specification of connectors

Reference document with specification of connectors, R, PU, Internal version 1 M12, Final version M24

FLW conceptual model

FLW conceptual model Will provide a conceptual model for the FLW economic effects

Impact assessment methodology
SILL tools

SILL tools Will provide participation systemic thinking tools

Alternative near-zero FLW pathways

Alternative near-zero FLW pathways – Will report on the process and results of building pathways to near-zero.

First set of Practice Abstracts

D103 will provide the Practice Abstracts A total target number of 14 practice abstracts is foreseen for the project Four of them are expected to be delivered in the first batch

Project Handbook

Project Handbook - Will present the main rules and approaches for inter-project coordination.

Market Analyses

Market Analyses - Will evidence market analyses around the FLW industry sector.

Archetypes and methodology for designing Governance and Collaborative Business Models for 0FLW Data Space and Applications

Archetypes and methodology for designing Governance Collaborative Business Models for 0FLW Data Space and Applications

Other (3)

Big Data Infrastructural Services

Big Data Infrastructural Services, OTH, PU, Internal version 1 M9, Final version M20

Application Development Services, Technologies, Connectors and Tools

Application Development Services, Technologies, Connectors and Tools, OTH, PU, Internal version 1 M14, Final version M28.

AI Analytics and Visualization Services

AI Analytics and Visualization Services, OTH, PU, Internal version 1 M14, Final version M28.

Open Research Data Pilot (1)

Data Management Plan

Data Management Plan DMP Will cover ethical and data management issues R PU Internal version 1 M2 Internal version 2 M12 Internal version 3 M18 Internal version 4 M24 Internal version 5 M30 Internal version 6 M36 Final version M42 The DMP will identify the Open Research Data that will become available

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (13)

The Invisible Backpack: a Techno-Ethical Analysis of the Stigma and Shame Associated with Accessing Food Banks in the Netherlands

Author(s): Anuj Puri, Frans Cruijssen, Ikie Leunissen
Published in: Food Ethics, Issue 11, 2025, ISSN 2364-6853
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1007/s41055-025-00187-9

Towards Trusted Data Sharing and Exchange in Agro-Food Supply Chains: Design Principles for Agricultural Data Spaces

Author(s): Martina Šestak, Daniel Copot
Published in: Sustainability, Issue 15, 2023, Page(s) 13746, ISSN 2071-1050
Publisher: MDPI Open Access Publishing
DOI: 10.3390/su151813746

Technological innovations for reducing tomato loss in the agri-food industry

Author(s): Irene Domínguez, José Luis del Río, Víctor Ortiz-Somovilla, Emma Cantos-Villar
Published in: Food Research International, Issue 203, 2025, Page(s) 115798, ISSN 0963-9969
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodres.2025.115798

Vehicle routing with stochastic demand, service and waiting times The case of food bank collection problems

Author(s): Meike Reusken, Gilbert Laporte, Sonja U.K. Rohmer, Frans Cruijssen
Published in: European Journal of Operational Research, Issue 317, 2024, Page(s) 111-127, ISSN 0377-2217
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2024.03.031

A food bank supply chain model: Optimizing investments to maximize food assistance

Author(s): Meike Reusken, Frans Cruijssen, Hein Fleuren
Published in: International Journal of Production Economics, Issue Volume 261, July 2023, 108886, 2023, ISSN 0925-5273
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpe.2023.108886

Optimizing household food waste: The impact of meal planning, package sizes, and performance indicators

Author(s): M.A. van Rooijen, J.C. Gerdessen, G.D.H. Claassen, S.L.J.M. de Leeuw
Published in: Resources, Conservation and Recycling, Issue 205, 2024, Page(s) 107559, ISSN 0921-3449
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.resconrec.2024.107559

Comparison of Different Pretreatment Processes Envisaging the Potential Use of Food Waste as Microalgae Substrate

Author(s): Fabiana Marques, Francisco Pereira, Luís Machado, Joana T. Martins, Ricardo N. Pereira, Monya M. Costa, Zlatina Genisheva, Hugo Pereira, António A. Vicente, José A. Teixeira, Pedro Geada
Published in: Foods, Issue 13, 2024, Page(s) 1018, ISSN 2304-8158
Publisher: MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/foods13071018

Meal planning under uncertainty: How shopping frequency affects food waste

Author(s): M.A. van Rooijen, J.C. Gerdessen, G.D.H. Claassen, S.L.J.M. de Leeuw
Published in: Sustainable Production and Consumption, Issue 57, 2025, Page(s) 403-412, ISSN 2352-5509
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.spc.2025.05.015

Dealing with donations: Supply chain management challenges for food banks

Author(s): Akkerman, Renzo; Buisman, Marjolein; Cruijssen, Frans; de Leeuw, Sander; Haijema, Rene
Published in: International Journal of Production Economics, Issue Volume 262, August 2023, 108926, 2023, ISSN 0925-5273
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpe.2023.108926

Heterotrophic cultivation of Chlorella vulgaris yellow mutant on sidestreams: Medium formulation and process scale-up

Author(s): Mafalda Trovão, Ana Barros, Adriana Machado, Ana Reis, Humberto Pedroso, Gonçalo Espírito Santo, Nádia Correia, Monya Costa, Sara Ferreira, Helena Cardoso, João Varela, Joana Silva, Hugo Pereira, Filomena Freitas
Published in: Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering, Issue 13, 2025, Page(s) 115361, ISSN 2213-3437
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jece.2025.115361

Pregled in analiza tehnoloških skladov za implementacijo sodobnih IT arhitektur velepodatkov

Author(s): Šestak, Martina; Turkanović, Muhamed
Published in: Uporabna Informatika, Issue Annual 31 No. 1 (2023): Applied Informatics, 2023, Page(s) 26-43, ISSN 1318-1882
Publisher: Slovenian Society INFORMATIKA
DOI: 10.31449/upinf.194

Dynamic Expiration-Date Based Discounting of Fresh Food Products

Author(s): Rene Haijema, Lisan Duijvestijn, Renzo Akkerman, Frans Cruijssen
Published in: International Journal of Production Economics, Issue Volume 292, February 2026, 109824, 2024, ISSN 0925-5273
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.5073771

Identification of factors associated with acute malnutrition in children under 5 years and forecasting future prevalence: assessing the potential of statistical and machine learning methods

Author(s): Meike Reusken, Christopher Coffey, Frans Cruijssen, Bertrand Melenberg, Cascha van Wanrooij
Published in: BMJ Public Health, Issue 3, 2025, Page(s) e001460, ISSN 2753-4294
Publisher: BMJ
DOI: 10.1136/bmjph-2024-001460

Conference proceedings (2)

Exploiting Machine Learning for Industrial Defrost Cycle Characterization

Author(s): Tassadaq Nawaz, Anjuman Ara Kali, Omer Ali, John McLaughlin, Lizy Abraham
Published in: 2025 33rd Telecommunications Forum (TELFOR), 2026, Page(s) 1-4, ISBN 979-8-3315-9357-5
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/telfor67910.2025.11314454

Extending Actor Models in Data Spaces

Author(s): Hendrik Meyer zum Felde, Maarten Kollenstart, Thomas Bellebaum, Simon Dalmolen, Gerd Brost
Published in: WWW '23 Companion: Companion Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2023, Issue 2023 Proceeding, 2023, Page(s) 1447–1451, ISBN 978-1-4503-9419-2
Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery
DOI: 10.1145/3543873.3587645

Book chapters (1)

Food Loss, Food Waste, and Sustainability in Food Supply Chains

Author(s): Renzo Akkerman, Frans Cruijssen
Published in: Springer Series in Supply Chain Management, Sustainable Supply Chains, Issue Part of the book series: Springer Series in Supply Chain Management ((SSSCM,volume 23)), 2024, Page(s) 219-239, ISBN 978-3-031-45565-0
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-45565-0_9