EU4Advice (2022-2027)

The Horizon Europe project EU4Advice was officially kicked off on October 6-7 2022, hosted at Pakhuis de Zwijger in Amsterdam and The Natural Pavilion at Floriade Expo 2022 in Almere. EU4Advice is a combination of the top Horizon Europe-projects, aligned into a thematic network approach, and integrating the GAIN Transition model as a strategy framework. Amped is responsible for building a learning ecosystem of Short Food Supply Chain (SFSC) advisory and expert networks through GAIN.  

• Launch of EU4Advice Living Lab MRA a great success
• Samen lerend op weg naar een nieuw voedselsysteem in de MRA
• Bijeenkomst Clustervorming in de Limburgse korte keten – 9 juni Maastricht
• De ontwikkeling van een robuust, regionaal en regeneratief voedselsysteem in de MRA – Update mei 2023

On Monday, October 9th 2023, the Dutch EU4Advice Living Lab for short chains was officially launched at The Natural Pavilion of the Flevo Campus in Almere.

HRH Prince Carlos de Bourbon de Parme opened the Living Lab and highlighted the important role that regional food chains have fulfilled in the past and can and should do so again now. Participants then explored in four breakout sessions the key opportunities and bottlenecks retrieved in the June 20 inspiration session around four specific issues:

• Agriculture for Consumers: How do you transfer consumer needs to farms?
• Blended Finance: How do we finance short-chain development?
• Market Creation: How can we bundle markets?
• Cooperation between short chains: How do you envision this?

This Living Lab runs for 4 years and is designed to offer entrepreneurs, experts, administrators and other stakeholders access to knowledge, tools, experiences and concrete projects to build a robust, regional and regenerative food system and thereby guide future European policy for short food chains.

The Dutch EU4Advice Living Lab (2023-2026) is a collaboration of Wageningen University, Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Metropolitan Solutions, Province of Flevoland and Amped and is supported by the EU Horizon 2020 project COREnet. The Living Lab actively collaborates with various development programs and organizations, including COREnet, VU Amsterdam Athena Institute, FoodCLIC and Short Chain Collective Netherlands.

We would like to thank Stephanie Jongma and Lucie Jeandrain for organizing the meeting, Evi for the clear moderation, the breakout leaders Alexander Laarman, Ellen Tijkotte, Margriet Goris and Mark Frederiks, and of course all participants for this successful kickoff of the Dutch EU4Advice Living Lab!

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