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Project
Urban food systems and ecosystems (CRFS) demand immediate action. CITIES2030 innovative approach has a great opportunity to attract the best researchers, entrepreneurs, civil society leaders, cities and all agents of the CRFS as well. We commit to working towards the transformation and restructuring of the way systems produce, transport and supply, recycle and reuse food in the 21st century.
Consortium
Università Ca’ Foscari (Venice, Italy), in partnership with 40 pan-European organisations, has received a 11.7 million euros grant from the European Commission programme Horizon2020, under the call “FOOD 2030 – Empowering cities as agents of food system transformation”. Over 4 years, 41 pan-European partners commit to work towards the transformation and restructuring of the way systems produce, transport and supply, recycle and reuse food in the 21st century.
Vision
Cities2030 vision is to connect short food supply chains, gathering cities and regions, consumers, strategic and complement industry partners, the civil society, promising start-ups and enterprises, innovators and visionary thinkers, leading universities and research across the vast diversity of disciplines addressing CRFS, including food science, social science and big data.
Approach
Cities2030 actively encourages the participation of citizens by delivering a trusted CRFS, moving consumers from being passive recipients to actively engaged and motivated change agents. This approach will enable policy developments, innovation actions within result-driven Labs, and enhancements on a pan-European scope with a global reach.
Results
Cities2030 actively encourages the participation of citizens by delivering a trusted CRFS, moving consumers from being passive recipients to actively engaged and motivated change agents. Cities2030 delivers an actionable, deployable, and transferable CRFS management framework.
CRFS Alliance
CRFS Alliance is a network of actors representating food value chains comprehensively from food designers to citizens (consumers), structured as a community of practice with supporting cooperation instruments
CRFS Observatory
CRFS Observatory is an open access platform where users will be able to access comprehensive information
CRFS Labs
CRFS policy and living labs to facilitate co-creation activities and deliver innovative frameworks on both dimensions
City-scale pilots
A series of city-scale pilots to test suggested frameworks and bring key learning for the validation of the framework
Systems thinking
An innovative and tailored System Thinking methodology to co-implement problem-solving challenges
Data-driven CRFS
A cradle-to-cradle data-driven digital CRFS management platform based on blockchain technology