RPMs 2016

 

Topic: Reducing food waste across the EU: stakeholder collaboration to acheive a transparent and sustainable food supply chain

 

Time: 11 February 2016

 

Venue: Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Metropolitan Solutions (AMS) in Amsterdam, the Netherlands

 

 

FUSIONS RPM Amsterdam Participants

 

This AMS-sponsored event, hosted by BIO by Deloitte focused on addressing how to build trust across the food supply chain to collectively reduce food waste (with a focus on the retail sector and policy) and how entrepreneurial efforts and social innovation can further contribute to a transparent food supply chain. 

 

At the RPM, keynote speakers from both the retail and entrepreneurial sector along with break-out sessions allowed for fruitful discussion. Time was also left to for a presentation on “Life after FUSIONS”, to give a close to the last North-West RPM and to shine light on how to stay involved on EU food waste issues, including staying tuned in with the new EU food waste project, REFRESH. 

 

Furthermore this RPM has been planned to fall just after the Amsterdam hub Food Surplus Entrepreneurs Network’s Food Waste Challenge event on 10 February. During this event, and in preparation for the 11 February RPM, participants have been challenged to come up with innovative start-up ideas aimed at reduce food waste. At the end of the day, teams participated in a pitching competition. The winners of this pitching competition presented to experts (present at the EU FUSIONS RPM on 11 February) and received feedback afterwards to implement their idea.

 

FUSIONS Agenda - North West RPMThe presentations of the meeting are available below:

•  FUSIONS presentation update
  • Toine Timmermans and Hilke Bos-Brouwers, WUR
•  Ahold Albert Heijn keynote speech
  • Peter Werre, Ahold Netherlands
•  DELHAIZE Group keynote speech
  • Benoît Liégey, Delhaize Group
•  Feasibility Study Projects consultation session
  • Giorgio Bagordo, WRAP
•  FOODCABINET consultation session
  • Mirjam van de Kamp, Food Cabinet
•  FSE Network Equoevento Pitching Session
•  FSE Network Food surplus education Pitching Session
•  FSE Network Intro Pitching Session
•  FSE Network Non-guilty pleasures Pitching Session.pdf
•  FoodLoop keynote speech
  • Christoph Müller-Dechent, FoodLoop
•  INSTOCK keynote speech
  • Selma Seddik, INSTOCK
•  KOMESIE_consultation session
  • Etienne Rubens, KOMOSIE 

Time: 29 January 2016

 

Venue: Thessaloniki City Hall, Thessaloniki, GreeceCooperating with Municipality of Thessaloniki

 

 

This year, the FUSIONS Southern Regional Platform meeting took place on January 29 in Thessaloniki, Greece.

 

An important element to the successful delivery of FUSIONS is the establishment of the FUSIONS Multi-Stakeholder Platform. Utilising the evidence, policy and behavioural change recommendations from the delivery of the key activities within FUSIONS, the Platform will enable, encourage, engage and support key actors across Europe in delivering a 50% reduction in food waste and a 20% reduction in the food chains resource inputs by 2020. Platform Members are organisations with an interest in preventing food waste and optimising food use through (social) innovation throughout the food supply chain, from primary sector to waste management, from industry to governmental and societal organisations. The aim of the FUSIONS Platform is to organise the stakeholder consultation process during the project on the following topics:

• Quantification and harmonisation of monitoring
• Policy
• Feasibility, best practices
• Sharing knowledge / communication

The results of the FUSIONS Platform stakeholder consultation process will feed in the policy and regulation making processes of the EU, and count as stakeholder input to these processes. The Regional Platform meetings are open to all stakeholder organisations and are free of charge. Membership is not obligatory, although we would like your organisation to commit to the same ambitions as the FUSIONS Project: reducing food waste through social innovation. Through the Platform, we ask you to contribute your knowledge and share your experience of working to reduce food Waste.

 

•  Pictures of the event
•  Εισαγωγική Παρουσίαση έργου FUSIONS
  • Hilke Bos-Brouwers, Επικεφαλής έργου FUSIONS, Wageningen UR, Food & Biobased Research, Ολλανδία
•  Ευρωπαϊκές Πολιτικές Πρόληψης και Μείωσης των Αποβλήτων Τροφίμων για την ενίσχυση πρωτοβουλιών κοινωνικής καινοτομίας
  • Silvia Gaiani, University of Bologna, UNIBO, Ιταλία
•  Σχεδιασμός Πρόληψης, Μείωσης και Διαχείρισης Αποβλήτων Τροφίμων στην Περιφέρεια Κεντρικής Μακεδονίας
  • Κωνσταντίνος Πούλιος, Περιφερειακός Σύνδεσμος ΦοΔΣΑ Κ. Μακεδονίας
•  Πολιτικές Υγιεινής Διατροφής ως μέσο μείωσης των οργανικών και μη οργανικών αποβλήτων
  • Σπύρος Πέγκας, Αντιδήμαρχος Τουρισμού, Διεθνών Σχέσεων και Ηλεκτρονικής Διακυβέρνησης, Δήμου Θεσσαλονίκης
•  Πρωτοβουλίες Πρόληψης και Μείωσης Αποβλήτων Τροφίμων στο Δήμο Θεσσαλονίκης
  • Αναστάσιος Βολιώτης, Προιστάμενος Τμήματος Ανακύκλωσης Δήμου Θεσσαλονίκης
  • Αξιοποίηση Αποβλήτων Τροφίμων Κεντρικής Λαχαναγοράς Θεσσαλονίκης
  • Δημήτριος Χαμπίδης, Διευθύνων Σύμβουλος Κεντρικής Αγοράς Θεσσαλονίκης Α.Ε.
•  Καλές πρακτικές μείωσης των απόβλητων τροφίμων στην Τοπική Αυτοδιοίκηση
  • Matteo Guidi, Last Minute Market, Bologna, Italy
•  Μεταφορά Καλών Πρακτικών Κοινωνικής Καινοτομίας για τη μείωση των αποβλήτων τροφίμων σε τοπικό, περιφερειακό και ευρωπαϊκό επίπεδο
  • Giorgio Bagordo, WRAP, UK
•  Πρόγραμμα Πρόληψης και Μείωσης Αποβλήτων Τροφίμων στην Προσχολική Ηλικία (Cr-EAT-ive Schools)
  • Δώρα Πασχάλη, ΑΝΑΤΟΛΙΚΗ ΑΕ
•  Πολιτικές Μείωσης Αποβλήτων Τροφίμων στην Προσχολική Αγωγή
  • Άννα Μίχου, Πρόεδρος Διοικητικού Συμβουλίου Κέντρου Κοινωνικής Πρόνοιας-Φροντίδας & Προσχολικής Αγωγής Δήμου Θέρμης

 

Time: 25 February 2016, 09.00-16.30

 

Venue: BOKU - Universität für Bodenkultur Wilhelm-Exner-Haus, EH 05, Vienna, AustriaCooperating with BOKU

 

 

This year, the FUSIONS Central Europe RPM will take place on February 25 in Vienna, Austria. The meeting is organized by the University of Hohenheim (Germany), the regional FUSIONS coordinator for the Central and Eastern Europe and the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna (BOKU) partner of FUSIONS. The FUSIONS Regional Platform Meeting is open to all stakeholder organizations and is free of charge. The meeting language is English. Please register before 22.02.2016!

 

You are welcome to bring a poster or leaflets of your organization’s actions to prevent food waste!

Registration link: https://bioeconomy.uni-hohenheim.de/registration_fusions_rpm

 

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In cooperation with FUSIONS partner FAO we organised the exhibition of Klaus Pichler´s “One third” picture series at our venue (http://kpic.at/). The young artist lives and works in Vienna and holds several international prizes for his photos art projects. His food related photo exhibition “One third” corresponds with the topic of our meeting and it is a matter of honour to share this breathtaking experience with you! The 4th FUSIONS Central Europe Regional Platform Meeting received the Eco Event rating by the City of Vienna.Please note that the Food Waste Challenge (originally planned on February 24, the day before the RPM,) has been cancelled by the FSE Network!