Descripción del proyecto
Hungry EcoCities investiga acerca de un sistema agroalimentario más sostenible y responsable
Hungry EcoCities propone una alianza de alto nivel entre la ciencia, la tecnología y las artes, para explorar de manera eficaz cómo las tecnologías digitales y las aplicaciones pueden llevar, a su vez, a la reducción del desperdicio de alimentos, a cadenas de valor y actitudes más sostenibles y a un consumo de alimentos más ético. ¿Cómo podemos desarrollar formas para crear un sistema agroalimentario más saludable, sostenible y asequible para todos? En Hungry EcoCities, estudios, universidades, productores y especialistas en agricultura se asocian con artistas y pensadores creativos para aportar nuevas ideas al futuro sistema alimentario. Hungry EcoCities acogerá veinte estancias de S+T+ARTS y durante cuarenta y dos meses trabajará en la definición, el diseño y el desarrollo de soluciones responsables e impulsadas por el arte, con ayuda de la inteligencia artificial, para los usuarios finales de las industrias agroalimentarias.
Objetivo
Agriculture has been a nursery for practical solutions to global challenges for a long time. EU agriculture is the only major system in the world that reduced greenhouse gas (CHC) emissions by 20% since 1990. Nonetheless, even though the EU’s transition to sustainable food systems has started in many areas, food systems remain one of the key drivers of climate change and environmental degradation and there is an urgent need to transition to sustainable food systems. To realize this ambition, actors of the food chain must play their part in achieving sustainability within their food chains. To obtain a new quality of sustainable innovation and transform, we need another approach including a more diverse and multidisciplinary perspective, that enables barriers between science, technology, industry, and the arts to be removed, and enabling synergies along the value chain. Hungry EcoCities, takes inspiration from the 2008 book by Carolyn Steel where a core question of civilization, social, phycological and sustainability impact is put forward: how do we feed a city? To answer this question in this project, growers, and agricultural specialists’ team up with artists, designers and creative thinkers to come up with new ideas for the future food system. Hereby we start from a European approach centered on human needs and values. Hungry EcoCities puts forward a high-level alliance between science, technology, and the arts, to effectively explore how digital technologies & applications can lead in turn to reduced food waste, more sustainable value chains, eco-friendly attitudes, and a more ethical food consumption. Hungry EcoCities brings together some of the world’s most renowned art studios with leading AI and agricultural experts and a network of over 40 leading European agricultural companies to develop ways of creating a more healthy, sustainable, and affordable agri-food system for all.
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HORIZON-RIA - HORIZON Research and Innovation ActionsCoordinador
602 00 BRNO STRED
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