Closing the nutritional loop in aquaculture
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| Coordinator | Sveriges Lantbruksuniversitet - Institutionen för vilt, fisk, miljö |
| Funding from Vinnova | SEK 600 000 |
| Project duration | November 2013 - December 2014 |
| Status | Completed |
Purpose and goal
The first aim of the project was to formulate challenges, solutions and relevant actors with input to formulate a sustainable food supply system to the city in an increasing globalization of our food production. The second aim was to formulate actions towards solutions stimulating and activate Swedish players and to do so in the format of a Strategic Innovation Program (SIP) in order to be able to realize these actions.
Results and expected effects
The work has resulted in a SIA supported within both industry and academia. This has resulted in an invitation to submit a full Strategic Innovation Program application. Independent of the outcome of this has the work resulted in an insight of the need to integrate the biological and technical aspects in formulation of tomorrows food system solutions. An alliance between SLU and KTH, aimed at primary food production and industry collaboration is therefore one concrete outcome of the work.
Approach and implementation
The traditional approach of gathering individual players to formulate a joint strategy proved very quickly suboptimal. The underlying rational for this was dual, but steamed both from the fact that this area has lately attracted a lot of enthusiastic but isolated initiatives. Firstly the players all expressed a -meeting fatigue-. Secondly a tendency for territorial defense was perceived. The strategy to identify a few central initiatives and then offer a communal arena proved very successful.