REDESIGN
tRansformativE fooD valuE Systems reshapInG resilient urban laNdscapes
Project code: 101182261
Programme: Horizon Europe
Call: HORIZON-CL6-2024-COMMUNITIES-01
Funded by Horizon Europe within the New European Bauhaus (NEB), the Food & Agriculture Science Department, with the TRACE Team from the Department of Architecture, will be coordinating the project “REDESIGN: Transformative Food Value Systems Reshaping Resilient Urban Landscapes”.
REDESIGN will transform local urban food systems by creating Food Value Systems (FVS). FVSs aim to strengthen urban resilience through food-led green urban and peri-urban infrastructure enhancement, foster participation in the food system of local communities, contribute to the quality and beauty of living places, and mitigate climate change through the integration of urban agriculture with the built environment. The FVSs will operate through the development and application of a “Learning Loop” methodology grounded on NEB values to accelerate innovation in all the steps of the food system (including production, consumption, exchange, and disposal). To do so, it will feed on a newly created network which will consist of three main groups of actors: ‘observation’ cases, ‘implementation’ cases, and a board of cities. Observation cases exemplify consolidated best practices. In the pilots, the REDESIGN Food Value Network will be set up and implemented with the involvement of local stakeholders, particularly vulnerable groups. Furthermore, each implementation case will have a specific focus on one of the domains of the urban food system (nutrient recovery and food production, the setting up of a multifunctional food lab, and food policy councils). The implementation cases will then become Living Labs, through which the innovation in local food value networks will scale up at two levels: the metropolitan one, contaminating nearby districts through training and transfer, and the international one, enhancing the observation cases (closing the ‘learning loop’), and informing the board of cities for policy innovation and learning.
Project duration
02.2025 – 01.2028
Scientific project head for the Department
Coordinator
Department of Agri-food Sciences and Technologies (UNIBO)
Partnership
Alma Mater Studiorum - Università Di Bologna
Varoskutatas (Metropolitan Researchinstitute) Kft
ILS Research Ggmbh
ILS - Institut Fur Landes- Und Stadtentwicklungsforschung Ggmbh
Universitat De Girona
Lincoln University (Nz)
University Of Kent
IVL Svenska Miljoeinstitutet Ab
Ethnicon Metsovion Polytechnion
Old Continent Sprl
Ernährungsrat Dortmund Und Region E.V.
Mad Leap Cic
Associació Milfulles
Total Budget:2.999.756,25 €
DA Budget: 163.885,00 €
Lecturers and researchers connected to the project
Saveria Olga Murielle BOULANGER
Non-permanent staff connected to the project
Serena ORLANDI (Assegnista di Ricerca)
Francesca SABATINI (Assegnista di Ricerca)
Project ERC sectors
PE8_3 Civil engineering, architecture, offshore construction, lightweight construction, geotechnics
PE8_11 Environmental engineering, including sustainable design, waste and water treatment, recycling, regeneration or recovery of compounds, carbon capture & storage.
LS9_5 Food biotechnology and bioengineering
SH3_9 Social aspects of health, ageing and society
SH7_8 Land use and planning