10. 2. 2023
CHORIZO - Changing practices and Habits through Open, Responsible, and social Innovation towards ZerO food waste
Programme:
Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme
Project:
CHORIZO – Changing practices and Habits through Open, Responsible, and social Innovation towards ZerΟ fοod waste
Timeline:
October 2022 – December 2025
Project budget:
6.095.569,00 EUR
WHAT IS CHORIZO?
CHORIZO is a project co-funded by Horizon Europe programme that aims to improve the understanding between social norms, consumer behaviours and economic actor decisions and FLW generation and use this knowledge to improve the effectiveness of decision-making and engagement of food chain actors, towards zero food waste.
The project´s main goal is to address existing research gaps and will use its outcomes to deliver and advance innovations helping actors to engage more effectively in food waste prevention and reduction activities.
In short, it is a European project that integrates EU and food chain actors to enhance contingency knowledge and produce new effective instruments for facilitating successful transitions towards minimising FLW.
The Chorizo consortium is formed by 15 European partners (Food Associations, Technological Centers, Universities, Food Bank Association, Innovation Clusters, among others) and coordinated by ILVO, Institute for Agriculture and Fisheries Research from Belgium.
CHORIZO aims to improve the understanding and knowledge to increase the effectiveness of decision-making and engagement of food chain actors in changing social norms towards zero food waste. The project is focused on (i) building upon previous FLW actions, (ii) generating new evidence on social norms & FLW behaviours, (iii) utilising advanced modelling techniques to produce solutions that integrate behavioural and economic theories and embedding research results into innovative products that can foster a change of FLW-related social norms.
Pomurska gospodarska zbornica (PCCI) is a project partner and together with ITC - Innovation Technology Cluster / Inovacijsko tehnološki grozd also co-responsible for implementing the real-life Case Study in Pomurje region, focusing on reducing food waste in restaurants at three layers: (i) retail and short food supply chains – delivery of fresh ingredients to restaurants, (ii) restaurants – storing and preparing food, managing FW and leftovers, (iii) consumers – ordering, leftovers perception.sponsible for the Systemic Innovation Living Lab, delivering and piloting an open, data-driven IT-based solution for capturing FLW data throughout the supply chain and providing analytics to address the requirements of the Sustainable Development Goals.
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 101060014.
