Foodshift 2030: A Citizen-Driven Transition of the European Food System (EU Horizon Project)

Abstract

Food poses major challenges for European citizens; be it attaining nutrient rich diets or the disproportionate contribution the food system makes to climate change. Currently, food system innovations don’t sufficiently address these challenges, nor do they take advantage of the opportunities and barriers for scaling up successful food system solutions. The FoodSHIFT 2030 project takes departure in the EU Food 2030 Research and Innovation Policy Framework, the EU’s commitment under the Paris Agreement and the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to launch an ambitious citizen-driven transition of the European food system towards a low carbon circular future, including a shift to less meat and more plant-based diets. It does so by creating a framework and efficient mechanisms for maturing, combining, upscaling and multiplying existing food system innovations through the operationalisation of nine citizen-driven FoodSHIFT Accelerator Labs and a further 27 FoodSHIFT Enabler Labs to be established in city-regions distributed across Europe.