SMARTCHAIN is an ambitious, 3 year project with 43 partners from 11 European countries including key stakeholders from the domain of short food supply chain as actors in the project. The central objective is to foster and accelerate the shift towards collaborative short food supply chains and, through concrete actions and recommendations, to introduce new robust business models and innovative practical solutions that enhance the competitiveness and sustainability of the European agri-food system.
Using bottom-up, demand-driven research, the SMARTCHAIN consortium i) will perform a multi-perspective analysis of 18 case studies of short food supply chains in terms of technological, regulatory, social, economic and environmental factors, ii) will assess the linkages and interactions among all stakeholders involved in short food supply chains and iii) will identify the key parameters that influence sustainable food production and rural development among different regions in Europe.
The project aims to establish 9 national communities of short food supply chains (Innovation and Collaboration Hubs) in different partner countries (France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Serbia, Spain and Switzerland) and a virtual innovation hub in order to facilitate stakeholder engagement, bringing farmers and consumers together in a trust-enhancing environment enabling them to generate demand driven-innovations.
Combination of scientific and practical knowledge and the use of innovation workshops will enable the development of practical innovative solutions as well as the promotion of a framework for different forms of collaborative short food supply chains in urban and rural areas. SMARTCHAIN will generate concrete actions for knowledge transfer, through the organisation of multi-stakeholder workshops and training activities for farmers and short food supply chain entrepreneurs.
Company Details
- Founded
- -
- Address
- Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg 70599, De
- Industry
- Farming
- NAICS
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Crop ProductionOilseed and Grain FarmingVegetable and Melon FarmingFruit and Tree Nut FarmingGreenhouse, Nursery, and Floriculture ProductionOther Crop FarmingSoybean FarmingOilseed (except Soybean) FarmingDry Pea and Bean FarmingWheat FarmingCorn FarmingRice FarmingOther Grain FarmingOrange GrovesCitrus (except Orange) GrovesNoncitrus Fruit and Tree Nut FarmingFood Crops Grown Under CoverNursery and Floriculture ProductionTobacco FarmingCotton FarmingSugarcane FarmingHay FarmingAll Other Crop FarmingOilseed and Grain Combination FarmingAll Other Grain FarmingPotato FarmingOther Vegetable (except Potato) and Melon FarmingApple OrchardsGrape VineyardsStrawberry FarmingBerry (except Strawberry) FarmingTree Nut FarmingFruit and Tree Nut Combination FarmingOther Noncitrus Fruit FarmingMushroom ProductionOther Food Crops Grown Under CoverNursery and Tree ProductionFloriculture ProductionSugar Beet FarmingPeanut FarmingAll Other Miscellaneous Crop Farming
- Website
- smartchain-h2020.eu
- Keywords
- Short food supply chains, Agriculture, Innovation, Food system, Farmers, Consumers, Agri-food.
- HQ
- Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg
- Competitors
- FAIRCHAIN_EU, GreenOrganics, GELAMIN Gesellschaft für Tierernährung mbH, Associazione Dottori in Scienze Agrarie, degli Alimenti ed Ambientali di Bologna, GO-GRASS, Grains For Africa, MSCA Doctoral Network HINA, Economia Agro-alimentare / Food Economy, BREUN, Agriculture Innovation Mission for Climate (AIM for Climate).
Smartchain H2020 Project Questions
Smartchain H2020 Project's website is smartchain-h2020.eu
Smartchain H2020 Project's LinkedIn profile is https://de.linkedin.com/company/smartchain-h2020-project
Smartchain H2020 Project's industry is
Farming
Smartchain H2020 Project's top competitors are
Fairchain_eu,
Greenorganics,
Gelamin Gesellschaft Für Tierernährung Mbh,
Associazione Dottori In Scienze Agrarie, Degli Alimenti Ed Ambientali Di Bologna,
Go-Grass,
Grains For Africa,
Msca Doctoral Network Hina,
Economia Agro-Alimentare / Food Economy,
Breun,
Agriculture Innovation Mission For Climate (Aim For Climate).
Smartchain H2020 Project's categories are Farming
Smartchain H2020 Project's founding year is 2018
