Sustainable school meals thru digitalization
| Reference number | |
| Coordinator | RISE Research Institutes of Sweden AB - RISE Research Institute of Sweden, Kista |
| Funding from Vinnova | SEK 4 213 597 |
| Project duration | January 2020 - June 2022 |
| Status | Completed |
| Venture | Challenge-driven innovation - Phase 2 Collaboration |
Important results from the project
The project aim and objective are still very relevant and the need for a technical solution is great, but to achieve that we had to rethink and take a different path. Partly because of the pandemic, partly because we did not get access to relevant data or that there was no data available. In order to move forward and still work towards the project objective, we created a fictitious municipality, Matköping, where we were independent of real data and could test functionality and user-friendliness in a prototype for a technical solution. Here very good and useful results emerged.
Expected long term effects
We produced several unexpected effects in the project, which, however, were good lessons and input for continued development. We got good data and positive results on the tests of the prototype that was developed in the project. At the same time, we unexpectedly encountered a lot of locked and unstructured data and a lack of agreed standards and handling together with a generally low degree of digital maturity which made it difficult to access data. There are many challenges in terms of both technical and organizational capabilities to be able to share data in a secure and controlled way.
Approach and implementation
Due to the corona pandemic, both the structure and implementation had to be drastically changed. Of course, everything had to be done digitally, but it also became generally difficult to get access to relevant people. We had difficulty accessing data and then we made a successful change of layout. We created a fictitious municipality, Matköping, where we could test the prototype we developed in the project. This meant that we were able to carry out a total of 62 tests of the prototype and thus got a good basis for how a digital tool should be structured and visualized.