Many EU funded projects have grasped the idea to involve different stakeholder groups into the project execution. The multi-actor approach and quadruple helix model have became a real tool and concept for project managers.
The idea is to promote diverse stakeholder groups participation into project planning and implementation. Stakeholders provide insights and feedback to project execution. They guide it as an local Advisory Board. When it comes the time to exploit the project results, the active and powerful stakeholder members become agents and ambassadors to amplify project activities on replication and exploitation of results.
In the INTERREG Baltic Sea Region project Change(K)Now! we aim to impact on food packaging practices in the institutional catering value chain.
The value chain mapping (see the pic below) assists to identify the relevant stakeholder members who have interest of and power to influence on the institutional catering value chain. In the project we explore the material- and associated information processes, as well as we aim to grasp the overall management principles and policies associated to the institutional catering value chain.
The value chain map of the institutional catering in Lahti primary schools and kindergarten, 2024
The project team together with stakeholders has defined the following Circular Economy goals for the value chain of the institutional catering in Lahti primary schools and kindergarten.
Ronald Ssembajwe |GIS/RS Specialist | Makerere University | +256-706-469640 |ronaldnazirite@gmail.com
The study which is conducted by a young scientists Mr Ronald Ssembajwe proofs the concept: it’s possible to locate dumpsites, particularly large and illegal ones, in Sierra Leone in Freetown district using open source satellite data. In addition it’s proven that it’s possible to monitor methane emissions directly from dumping sites.
This study has received the funding from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Finland and Finnpartnership programme under grant agreement No. UHA2023-000504 – Freetown Waste Management Transition 2035 Towards Circular Economy. The grant has been addressed to Smart & Lean Hub Oy, Finland, which has ordered this study.
A team Bruno da Silva from IAAD and Tuula Löytty from Smart & Lean Hub Oy participated into the conference via a poster.
The poster canvasses how Lean KATA methodology is used in the Cities2030 Living Labs to mobilise participants and to achieve results.
The novelty here is to exploit Lean KATA methodology in finding answers to society level challenges. Typically Lean KATA (or other words Toyota KATA) used for the business process development purposes, specially for manufacturing.
Two pictures from the conference venue on 14.2.2024.
In Finland, the City Region Food System (CRFS) aligns with the global principles of promoting sustainable and localized food production, distribution, and consumption. Finnish CRFS initiatives emphasize several key aspects:
Local and Regional Collaboration: There’s a strong emphasis on collaboration between urban centers and surrounding rural regions to create a more integrated food system. This collaboration aims to support local farmers, encourage regional food production, and ensure a steady supply of fresh and nutritious food to urban populations.
Urban Agriculture: Finland promotes urban agriculture initiatives, such as community gardens, rooftop farming, and allotment gardens, within city limits. These initiatives not only provide city dwellers with access to fresh produce but also contribute to a sense of community and environmental sustainability.
Sustainability and Innovation: The Finnish CRFS emphasizes sustainability, encouraging environmentally friendly farming practices, reducing food waste, and integrating innovative technologies into food production and distribution systems. This includes advancements in controlled-environment agriculture, hydroponics, and smart farming techniques.
Government Support: Finland has policies and support mechanisms in place to encourage local and sustainable food production. This includes funding for research and development in agriculture, subsidies for environmentally friendly farming practices, and initiatives that promote local food markets and networks.
Consumer Awareness and Education: There’s a focus on educating consumers about the benefits of local and sustainable food choices. Initiatives often include educational programs in schools, public awareness campaigns, and efforts to highlight the importance of supporting local farmers and producers.
Food Security and Resilience: Finnish CRFS initiatives aim to enhance food security by ensuring a diverse and resilient food supply. This involves supporting small-scale producers, diversifying agriculture, and developing strategies to mitigate the impact of external factors such as climate change and market fluctuations.
Overall, the Finnish City Region Food System reflects a commitment to sustainable practices, collaboration between urban and rural areas, innovation in food production, and ensuring access to healthy food for all residents while minimizing the environmental impact of the food supply.
The content of this deliverable does not reflect the official opinion of the European Union. Responsibility for the information and views expressed herein lies entirely with the author(s).
All ‘cities2030’ consortium members are also committed to publish accurate and up to date information and take the greatest care to do so. However, the ‘cities2030’ consortium members cannot accept liability for any inaccuracies or omissions, nor do they accept liability for any direct, indirect, special, consequential, or other losses or damages of any kind arising out of the use of this information.
Cities2030 work package no. 5 has developed the Sustransition Matrix. The rows of the matrix are the 10 food system themes and the columns are 5 specific objectives of the project.
Cities2030 has mobilised 18 Living Labs to carry out innovation actions. The interventions are addressed to transform city region food systems (10 themes) and achieve the 5 specific objectives.
Living Labs efforts cover all 10 themes and 5 objectives. The Sustransition Matrix is fully populated.
As anticipated, the food distribution, markets and consumption are on the top, but production is also ranked high. When it comes to objectives the top three is: Secure healthy and sustainable food, Enhance circularity and local food belts and develop food culture and skills.
The Cities2030 Living Labs have now implemented their action plans almost one year. The labs share the actions, results, learning and observations also at Cities2030 Community platform.
The action plans and their implementation will advance City Region Food Systems (CRFS) transition towards FOOD 2030 policy.
The innovation action database is a result of the common efforts of the work package 5. Tuula Löytty from Smart & Lean Hub Oy leads and coordinates the work package 5 which encompasses five tasks.
FOR INCREASED TRANSPARENCY
Since the Cities2030 is financed by public funds (#Horizon2020 program), the project actively engages in communication activities, promotes the project and publicly acknowledge the EU support.
Project publishes most of the official deliverables publicly to advance transparency in Living Labs actions and achievements, to connect separate local efforts with other networks to strenghten communities of practices, and to share good/promising practices with food system developers.
Cities2030 supports knowledge exchange, open access at innovation ecosystems, and European Commission principle “as open as possible, as closed as necessary”.
The international journal AGRIS on-line Papers in Economics and Informatics is a scholarly open access, blind peer-reviewed by two reviewers, interdisciplinary, and fully refereed scientific journal.
AGRIS on-line Papers in Economics and Informatics accepted to publish our paper. The journal is no. 3/2023, September.
Cities2030 work package no. 5 has built an innovation action database.
The database contains innovation actions of the City Region Food System (CRFS) Living Labs. Action types are experiments, capacity building actions, external funding actions, system thinking pilots, and other innovation actions. The target fields of the actions are the city region, the project beneficiaries or another audience. By today the innovation action database contains 105 data rows.
The database is a tool to map, monitor, assess, document and share innovation actions. Altogether 16 of 18 City Region Food System Living Labs have so far uploaded and updated the data of innovation actions into the database.
The data is originated from the public and official deliverable D5.5 which describes 15 Living Labs’ actions plans. By now, 16 operative Living Labs have extended and updated the data by the info of experiments, by capacity building actions (deliverable D5.1) and by system thinking pilots.
The Cities2030 Living Labs have now implemented their action plans almost one year. The labs share the actions, results, learning and observations also at Cities2030 Community platform.
The action plans and their implementation will advance City Region Food Systems (CRFS) transition towards FOOD 2030 policy.
The innovation action database is a result of the common efforts of the work package 5. Tuula Löytty from Smart & Lean Hub Oy leads and coordinates the work package 5 which encompasses five tasks.
FOR INCREASED TRANSPARENCY
Since the Cities2030 is financed by public funds (#Horizon2020 program), the project actively engages in communication activities, promotes the project and publicly acknowledge the EU support.
Project publishes most of the official deliverables publicly to advance transparency in Living Labs actions and achievements, to connect separate local efforts with other networks to strenghten communities of practices, and to share good/promising practices with food system developers.
Cities2030 supports knowledge exchange, open access at innovation ecosystems, and European Commission principle “as open as possible, as closed as necessary”.
Living Labs are acting place-based, taking in account local setting, needs and resources. They are engaging local multi-actor stakeholders to put efforts into transition and interventions.
The Cities2030 Living Labs have now implemented their action plans almost one year. The actions, results, learning and observations are published at Cities2030 Community platform.
FOR INCREASED TRANSPARENCY
Since the Cities2030 is financed by public funds (Horizon2020 program), the project actively engages in communication activities, promotes the project and publicly acknowledge the EU support.
Project publishes most of the official deliverables publicly to advance transparency in Living Labs actions and achievements, to connect separate local efforts with other networks to strenghten communities of practices, and to share good/promising practices with food system developers.
Cities2030 supports knowledge exchange, open access at innovation ecosystems, and European Commission principle “as open as possible, as closed as necessary”.
The Living Labs’ action plans are described in the deliverable 5.5. It is a public deliverable which is accessible in Cities2030 web-page.
The deliverable is associated with the task 5.2. Tuula Löytty from Smart & Lean Hub Oy leads and coordinates this task. The task equips Living Lab operators with feasible and practical innovation practices and provides support for LL-operators in their work.
Officially Bertta is a Biolan Quick composter 220ECO which is designed and produced by Biolan Oy in Finland.
Bertta’s mission is to convert food waste to compost soil.
Soon Bertta’s life is about to change dramatically. First, she is invited to be a testbed composter at Lahti Living Lab. Secondly, she will be equipped with IoT sensors.
Bertta’s life is changed. She was before analog, but now she is digital.
There are three household bio composters that are equipped with sensors in the world. The product name is Biolan SMARTY.
All three are located in Finland: Eura, Rauma, and Lahti.
Mobile application – Bioapp – enables online monitoring of the bio-composter status.
Temperature data gives an insight into the process trend, status, deviations, and overall performance. The bio-composter is still alive and working, but the temperature is getting little by little too low. Winter is coming to Finland.
Lahti Living Lab tests a pioneering IoT-equipped bio composter. Wifi-connection and temperature sensors enable localization of the bio-composter and remote monitoring of the performance.
The Lahti Living Lab has invited multi-actors to assess the upgraded bio-composter, consult and give feedback and recommendations. The consultative discussions comply with the SWOT analysis.
The below image illustrates the dialogue on how the solution of localization and remote monitoring mirrors municipality waste management authorities and operators‘ needs and visions.
The below image illustrates the dialogue on how the solution of localization and remote monitoring mirrors real estate maintenance actors’ needs and visions.
The experiment IoT-equipped food waste composter is conducted in co-operation with Biolan Oy and Smart & Lean Hub oy. Biolan Oy owns the IPR to the SMARTY solution.
The content of this blog does not reflect the official opinion of the European Union. Responsibility for the information and views expressed therein lies entirely with the author(s).
Tämän blogin on kirjoittanut Tiina Manninen. Hän osallistuu Lahti Living Lab:n toteuttamaan bokashi kokeiluun kesän ja syksyn 2022 aikana.
Kokeilu kuuluu laajaan Cities2030 hankkeeseen, jota rahoittaa Horizon2020 EU-ohjelma (www.cities2030.eu).
Aloitin hajuttoman kompostoinnin innoissani kesälomani jälkeen heinäkuun puolivälissä. Olin katsellut jo kevään puutarhamessuilla, josko hommaisi pöntöt ja rouheet messuhintaan mutta käteen tarttui lähinnä kukkasipuleita. Kaihoissani kuitenkin katselin naapurin rehevää puutarhaa. Hän aloitti bokashin jo edellisenä vuonna ja on asiasta kovin innoisaan ja siitä se into pikkuhiljaa tarttui. Suurin hyöty ja enisijainen motiivi tietysti on ja oli jätteen määrän vähentäminen ja sitä kautta rahan säästö.
Olikin ihana ylläri päästä koeryhmään, asiaa ei tarvinnut kahta kertaa miettiä. Uskomatonta nähdä kuinka paljon vähemmän sekajätettä nyt tulee kun kaikki biohajoava menee bokashiin. Itelläni ei tosiaan ollut vielä hommattuna perinteistä kompostia, se kun tuppaa haisemaan niin olen jotenkin vältellyt sen laittamista, häpeäkseni tunnustan asian.
Bokashoinnin aloittamisen jälkeen välittömästi näytti tapahtuvan aivoissani jotain. Sellaista, että ensinnäkin kiinnittää huomioita jätteen määrään, toisekseen miettii ruuanlaittotapaa, jotta siitä tulisi mahdollisimman vähän jätettä -koska niitä jämiä nyt ei vain enää heitetä sekajätteeseen kuten ennen, tämän teroitin teinillekin. Luulin olevani jo aika tarkka keittiössä. Meillä ei mene ruokaa roskiin muutenkaan juuri ollenkaan, kaikki syödään tai jatkojalostetaan. Esim. kun teen mehua niin siitä jäävä kuitu mehustimen reunoilla menee gluteenittomaan leipään massaksi. Jääkaappiin jäävät juustonkannikat menevät koiran maku/koulutuspaloiksi jne. Perunaa emme syö joten sen kuoria ei tule. Koirataloudessa on yllättävän helppoa kun kurkun ja paprikan ym jämät menevät parempiin suihin. Käyttämäni kasvikset ovat lähes aina luomua niin kuoretkin voi antaa koiralle. No, kyllä sinne bokashiin sitten kuitenkin alkoi jätettä tulla, hitaammin kuitenkin kuin luulin. Kesäaikana ei paljoakaan juureksia tullut käytettyä joten sitruunan ja mintun jämät makuvesistä ja salatinkannat alkoivat pikkuhiljaa täyttää sankoa. (video liitteenä) Uskomattoman paljon tuonne pikkuruiseen sankoon menee tavaraa, väliin hiiltä ja rouhetta, vau! Nestettä tuli tasaiseen tahtiin ja kukat saivat ravinetta. Kivaa puuhastelua vaikka muu perhe ei niin innoissaan asiasta olekaan, olisi vain pitänyt aloittaa heti sankot saatuani jottei kesä olisi loppunut kesken ja ulkona olisi lämpöä multatehtaalle. Ja huopatossut pitää kyllä laittaa sankon pohjalle, se muuten raapii mukavasti puulattian kun on niin painava 😀
Innolla odotan ensi kesää ja uutta multaa syntyväksi. Mahdottoman iso kiitos tälle kokeilulle ja Cities 030 hankeelle.
Lahti Living Lab bokashi kokeilun satoa. Videon kuvannut Tiina Manninen.
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