Project description
New tools for circular food systems
The EU’s transition to a circular economy and more resource efficiency is driven by innovation. This can be seen in the food industry, where there is a shift from linear to circular sustainability. In this context, the EU-funded WASTELESS project will develop and test a mix of innovative tools and methodologies for measurement and monitoring of food loss and waste. The project will follow a bottom-up approach. It will start by defining a harmonised methodological framework. It will then establish the standards for the testing activities, the evaluation of the quality and integrability of the data produced in other frameworks. Lastly, it will recommend sustainable policies and business strategies. The findings will be used to develop a decision support toolbox.
Objective
The WASTELESS project will develop and test a mix of innovative tools and methodologies for Food Loss and Waste (FLW) measurement and monitoring. A bottom-up approach will be followed: starting from defining an harmonised methodological framework and set of standards for the testing activities, the evaluation of the tools implementation and the quality and integrability of the data produced in other frameworks and finally recommend sustainable policies and business strategies to set the ground for a harmonised Framework at EU level.
Additionally to the measurement and monitoring tools, WASTELESS will carry research activities on innovative processes and streams to valorise unavoidable FLW.
With the ambition to make existing FLW quantification solutions and WASTELESS ones usable by all food actors, it will be developed a Decision Support Toolbox for any stakeholders to access to the most appropriate methodology, digital tools and solutions for FLW valorisation all that aggregated with the Environmental and Socio-Economic impact associated to the implementation of the solutions. This will enable the replication of data collection hubs accross Europe feeding the model developed by JRC with robust, reliable and comparable FLW data.
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5000 911 Vila Real
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4485-655 VAIRAO
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26315 Aleson La Rioja
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31330 Navarra
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31500 Tudela
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06800 Cankaya Ankara
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1000 Bruxelles / Brussel
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1070 Wien
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5230 Odense M
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00144 Roma
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75008 Paris
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154 51 Athens
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1030 Wien
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1000 Ljubljana
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1300 307 LISBOA
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108 03 Praha 10
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00144 Rome
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28001 Madrid
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06510 ANKARA
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1050 Bruxelles / Brussel
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1113 Budapest
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00149 ROMA
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1000 Ljubljana
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34330 Besiktas, Istanbul
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50410 Tartu
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16132 Genova
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1078 Budapest
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1349 017 Lisboa
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Partner organisations contribute to the implementation of the action, but do not sign the Grant Agreement.
3003 Bern
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