🥕Context: FoodSHIFT2030

Food Tech 3.0 originally began as part of the H2020 EU Project, FoodSHIFT2030. Here, you can get to know the overarching project which helped us make sense of Food Tech 3.0.

FoodSHIFT2030, which began in 2020, is a four-year Horizon 2020 European Union project. The goal of FoodSHIFT2030 is to support a transition to a food system that is low-carbon, plant-based and circular by mobilising food citizenship across 9 city-regions and 27 subsequent enabler regions.

How does FoodSHIFT2030 support the food system transition?

This short video helps demonstrate how FoodSHIFT2030 works to transform the European food system.

9 FoodSHIFT2030 Accelerator Labs (FALs)

Each of the city-regions hosts a citizen-driven FoodSHIFT2030 Accelerator Lab, which is dedicated to identifying, maturing, combining, upscaling, and multiplying 10 existing food system innovations around a certain theme. Overall, 90+ innovations participated across the FoodSHIFT2030 Accelerator Labs in nine city-regions in Athens, Avignon, Barcelona, Bari, Berlin, Brasov, Copenhagen, Ostend and Wroclaw. The FALs participate in knowledge exchanges in order to share information and support adoption of initiatives to new contexts.

In the case of Barcelona, our the Food Tech 3.0 FAL at Fab Lab Barcelona has the mission to: support and pilot open source food technology, and affiliated processes, that can facilitate the management, monitoring, socialization, and efficiency of food production, distribution, elaboration, consumption, and recycling in cities.

In order to ensure that each FAL was truly citizen-driven and responded to the local contexts of their city-regions, FALs developed advisory boards at the start of the project. Advisory boards are made up of members of the local food ecosystem that could support the direction of the FALs.

In the case of Food Tech 3.0, our Advisory Board was made up of Loïc Le Goueff from Green in Blue; Co-Responsable’s Edith Claros; Doris Boira from La Fabric@ and La Taca d’Oli; AbonoKM0’s founders Miki Royan and Diego Waehner; Adela Martínez González, founder of Huertos in the Sky; Arleny Medina Prince from Restaurante LEKA; Rasmus Bjerngaard, founder of Nextfood. Their role was invaluable in situating Food Tech 3.0 in the context of Barcelona and pushing innovators to question their approaches and situate themselves in the local context.

To learn more about the details of each step of Food Tech 3.0's development, check the section Our Food Tech 3.0 Journey.

The 9 city-regions hosting FoodSHIFT2030 Accelerator Labs are each dedicated to a certain theme. While the Labs support initiatives around their topic, they also support the transfer of knowledge and participation of citizens in the Labs' work.

27 FoodSHIFT2030 Enabler Labs (FELs)

In order to upscale FAL innovations and foster knowledge transfer, each of the 9 FALs connected with 3 new city-regions where they established FoodSHIFT2030 Enabler Labs. Reciprocal knowledge transfer sessions are held between FALs and FELs in order to further develop and enhance each FAL's topic.

In the case of Food Tech 3.0, we partnered with Fab city Hamburg / Mechanical Engineering of the Helmut Schmidt University in Hamburg, Open Dot in Milan, and Fab City Grand Paris / Ars Longa in Paris. The aim of the partnership is to further develop the concept of distributed social food hubs, employing tools like food technology into the mix.

To learn more about the process and developments with the FELs, visit the Scaling section.

A recap from the FoodSHIFT2030 Stakeholder Innovation Conference & Food Tech 3.0 Showcase.