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 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.
Smart & Lean 