project - Research and innovation

SKIN - Short supply chains Knowledge & Innovation Network
SKIN - Short supply chains Knowledge & Innovation Network

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Context

The management of SFSCs is a cross-sectoral issue that has already demonstrated its potential in addressing the needs of producers to improve their linkages to the supply chain (EIP-AGRI Focus Group on SFSCs Final Report, 2015), even if just on a fragmented and small-scale level. SKIN addresses the specific needs of this actors making the available knowledge accessible and promoting cooperation, co-creation and cross-fertilization of ideas.

The SKIN project builds on results of the past and of on-going actions in order to fully exploit existing knowledge: Thanks to the participation of partners actively involved in SFSCs, and especially of partners that are members of EIP-AGRI Focus Group on SFSCs, SKIN will bring synergies with case studies already presented in the framework of such Focus Groups.

Objectives

SKIN is the EU Short Food Supply Chains (SFSCs) Thematic Network.

Examples of SFSCs in Europe are numerous, but they are generally small in scale, limited in impact and highly fragmented. This is an obstacle for farmers and other stakeholders acting in the value chain to implement viable and efficient solutions.

The aim of SKIN is to tackle such fragmentation in the access to different practice models, systematise information, empower the potential innovators and create a EU community on SFSCs, with the objective of enhancing innovation capabilities and pathways supporting the development of efficient SFSCs.

Objectives

SKIN rappresenta la rete tematica europea della filiera corta agroalimentare.

Gli esempi di filiera corta in Europa sono numerosi, ma con realtà generalmente di piccola dimensione, molto frammentate e con impatto limitato. Questo è un ostacolo per gli agricoltori e altri soggetti interessati che operano nella filiera corta per attuare soluzioni sostenibili ed efficaci.

L'obiettivo di SKIN è affrontare tale frammentazione nell'accesso a modelli di pratiche differenti, sistemare informazioni, potenziare i potenziali innovatori e creare una comunità dell'Unione europea sui SFSC, con l'obiettivo di migliorare le capacità e le vie di innovazione per sostenere lo sviluppo di SFSC efficaci.

Activities

SKIN will scout, analyse and classify at least 100 SFSCs Good Practices in Europe. These will be systematised, processed into highly usable formats and made accessible to stakeholders via the web and through the set-up of regional nodes, to allow a deeper penetration of existing knowledge into practice. The work on good practices will also allow identifying key issues (hindrances or opportunities) around SFSCs. Such issues will be the main themes of 6 “innovation challenges workshops” with the purpose of stimulating stakeholders to propose new ideas for innovation based research or innovation uptake, with the support of the project coaching team.

Additional information

SKIN – Short Food Supply Chains Knowledge and Innovation Network - is an ambitious initiative of 20 partners in 14 countries in the area of Short Food Supply Chains (SFSCs).

SKIN is a consortium of practitioners, researchers and intermediary actors, built within a multi-actor logic, to advance innovation and efficiency of European SFSCs. Doing this, the project implements a methodology that has already successfully achieved promoting demand-driven innovations in previous regional, national and European projects.

Project details
Main funding source
Horizon 2020 (EU Research and Innovation Programme)
Type of Horizon project
Multi-actor project - Thematic network
Location
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EUR 1 999 718.00

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