Sustainability Optimization for Secure Food Systems

Project Information

SOSFood

Grant agreement ID: 101134894

DOI

10.3030/101134894

EC signature date 16 November 2023

Start date 1 February 2024

End date 31 January 2028

Funded under

• Food, Bioeconomy Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment

Total cost

€ 3 952 196,25

EU contribution

€ 3 952 196,25

Coordinated by

UNIVERSIDAD DE VIGO
Spain

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Deliverables

Documents, reports (5)

Communication and Dissemination Plan

This plan will include a style guide of visual identity and consider the characteristics of each target group to provide custom information. The plan will be regularly updated to include new communication-related actions and events when necessary.

Establishment of project management procedures

The project will begin with the definition of the management procedures and the setup of communication rules (D.7.1) by the project coordinator, supported by the consulting company as technical secretary.

Practice Abstracts - batch 1

This deliverable contains 3 Practice Abstracts.

SOSFood Conceptual Framework (V1)

A first version of the Conceptual Framework and literature review will be delivered in D1.2 and a second version updated on the basis of empirical findings and a process of participatory theory. A transdisciplinary, reflexive seminar will be organized to critically discuss the theoretical foundation of the project in the light of empirical evidence collected in WP2, WP3 and WP4, and to adapt these accordingly. Based on the insights of the participatory theory building the Conceptual Framework will be finalized (D1.3).

Analysis of up-to-date systems of private data sharing

Partners will categorize popular data sharing approaches and identify research gaps by analyzing combinations of promising properties and features that are not yet supported by existing approaches, considering also the relative number of incentives and barriers. The results of the analysis will be fed into D1.5.

Ethics Requirements (1)

OEI - Requirement No. 4

Ethics AdvisorThe project displays a high level of interdisciplinarity, each discipline raising isolated ethical problems that interact with each other and are likely to produce negative synergistic effects. Due to the dimension of the grant, the multidisciplinary aspects, and the fact that AI an ML technologies are intended to be used as tools to design recommendations on diet and purchasing habits, serious and complex ethics issues might arise that could compromise fundamental rights and freedoms and/or undermine EU fundamental values. The beneficiaries themselves acknowledge many of these issues and try to address them in their proposal, though insufficiently.It is true that the project describes the role of an ethics advisor (p. 25). However, it is important that the advisor is external and independent from the project. The advisor should provide the consortium with guidance on compliance with relevant ethical regulations and EU guidelines and with a focus on the three areas: human participation, personal data and use of artificial intelligence as commented above.Therefore, an external independent ethics advisor with specialisation covering the issues below must be appointed by month 1.The ethics advisor must advise the consortium on the following issues:- the involvement of a large number of human participants, including vulnerable people, children, and individuals unable to give an informed consent- the proper handling of a large amount of personal and special categories data- the use of AIA report by the Ethics Advisor must be submitted at the end of each reporting period.

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (1)

Performing life cycle impact assessment with the midpoint and endpoint method ReCiPe

Author(s): Rosalie van Zelm, Thomas Hennequin, Mark A. J. Huijbregts
Published in: Nature Protocols, 2025, ISSN 1754-2189
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1038/S41596-025-01207-Y