SKIN

• SKIN – Short supply chain Knowledge and Innovation Network (2016 – 2019)
• From 2016-11-01 to 2019-10-31
• Project ID: 728055
• Coordinated in:Italy
• Topic(s): RUR-10-2016-2017 – Thematic Networks compiling knowledge ready for practice

Objective:
SKIN is an ambitious initiative of 20 partners in 14 countries in the area of Short Food Supply Chains (SFSCs). It intends to systematise and bring knowledge to practitioners, promote collaboration within a demand-driven innovation logic and provide inputs to policymaking through links to the EIP-AGRI. SKIN will build and animate a community of about 500 stakeholders, with the strategic objective of setting up, at the conclusion of the project, a European association permanently working for the improvement of SFSCs efficiency and for the benefit of stakeholders and growth in the sector. The community will be built and animated around the identification of good practices in short supply chains across Europe. Partners will scout, analyse and classify a significant number of cases in different countries. “Best practices” (at least 100) will be systematised, processed into highly usable formats (including video and page-flows) and made accessible to stakeholders via the web (following the EIP AGRI formats) 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” the purpose of which is to stimulate stakeholders to propose new ideas for innovation based research or innovation uptake. These will be supported in a coaching phase where consortium partners deliver guidance to stakeholders for the full development of those innovative ideas.
SKIN puts significant efforts in dissemination, to reach as many stakeholders as possible, and exploitation, to plan post projects developments in the form of a permanent association that would give continuity to the activities launched with the project (community expansion, circulation of good practices, promotion of research based innovation and linkages with the EIP and policy making instances).

Coordinator:
UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI FOGGIA, Italy

Participants:
CONFEDERAZIONE GENERALE DELL’AGRICOLTURA ITALIANA, Italy
UNIVERSITEIT GENT, Belgium
BIOSENSE INSTITUTE – RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE FOR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES IN BIOSYSTEMS, Serbia
WIRELESSINFO, Czech Republic
CREHAN, KUSANO & ASSOCIATES, Belgium
TEAGASC – AGRICULTURE AND FOOD DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY, Ireland
MAGYAR TUDOMANYOS AKADEMIA KOZGAZDASAG- ES REGIONALIS TUDOMANYI KUTATOKOZPONT, Hungary
Campden BRI Magyarorszag Nonprofit Korlatolt Felelossegu Tarsasag, Hungary
EUROPE FOR BUSINESS LTD, United Kingdom
ASSOCIATION DE COORDINATION TECHNIQUE POUR L’INDUSTRIE AGROALIMENTAIRE, France
Boerenbondvereniging voor Projecten vzw, Belgium
ZUIDELIJKE LAND- EN TUINBOUWORGANISATIE VERENIGING, Netherlands
YOURIS.COM, Belgium
EUROPEAN QUALIFICATION ALLIANCE SP ZOO, Poland
COOPERATIVAS AGRO-ALIMENTARIAS DE ESPANA U DE COOP SOCIEDAD COOPERATIVA, Spain
VEREIN ZUR FORDERUNG VON REGIONAL- UND AGRARPROJEKTEN, Austria
CASSOVIA LIFE SCIENCES, Slovakia
COLLISON AND ASSOCIATES LIMITED, United Kingdom
SEGES PS, Denmark

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