ECO-Ready

Meet the 10 sub-projects selected under the ECOREADY Open Call:

AIDEMEC- Italy

AIDEMEC uses agronomic, phenotyping and AI solutions for early abiotic and biotic stress detection. The consortium is in the Mediterranean region and will focus on tomato, wheat, barley, Olives and beans. AIDEMEC sites are in 5 different sites covering diverse soil and weather conditions.

These solutions will then be transferred to farmers, engaging them and end-users to take corrective measures to protect crops and avoid yield loss in changing climate conditions.

CONCAT LL - Spain

Catalonia holds an agrifood industry that produces over 8 million tons of agricultural products. Its diverse landscape supports key products including high-quality olive oil, various fruits, nuts, a variety of vegetables, staple cereals vineyards, livestock and fish. CONCAT LL is a dynamic Living Lab that explores how to make Catalan food production not only resilient but also capable of mitigating climate impact through improved management. This innovative approach enables real-time data collection and hypothesis testing, allowing the ecosystem to extract actionable insights and apply them to practical solutions.

Eco-Ready Masuria - Poland

The EcoReadyMasuria Living Lab is an open innovation initiative implemented to promote climate change adaptation solutions (agro-ecological practices and technologies) in Masuria, a region of Poland known as the "Land of a Thousand Lakes", characterised by exceptional natural landscapes, rich biodiversity, and deep-rooted agricultural traditions.

EcoVita LL - Hungary

The EcoVita Living Lab will explore how vertical farming, as a specific form of agriculture, may contribute to food security, climate resilience and agrobiodiversity. It aims at providing a systematic and practice-oriented characterisation of the food system and an analysis of gaps and data requirements regarding the existing structure, enhancing socio-economic and environmental pillars of sustainability.

ESAPPIN Living Lab NRW - Germany

The ESAPPIN Living Lab addresses food security in the German state of North Rhine – Westphalia (NRW), bringing together actors from the academic, industrial, agricultural and political spheres, with a key focus on processed food products. The ESAPPIN Living Lab aims to create a substantial impact on various target stakeholders, including consumers, farmers, food processors, retailers, and policymakers at different levels (local, regional, and central European).

LivOrganic - Denmark

LivOrganic is situated in the Scandinavian and the Baltic Sea bio-climatic region. It investigates the impact from climate change, biodiversity, agronomy and markets on stakeholders’ decision whether to enhance or reduce organic food production, thus food security. It is the ambition of LivOrganic to become known as the living lab that offers a setting for addressing organic food security in connection with climate change and biodiversity. LivOrganic will generate knowledge through co-creation processes with value chain stakeholders to identify pathways for maintaining food security for organic products in Scandinavia and the Baltic Sea region.

Loire Valley Observatory for Food Security - France

The French Living Lab is based in the Val de Loire (Loire Valley), in the bioclimatic area of the Atlantic Arc. It is a French natural area crossing two regions, the Centre-Val de Loire and the Pays de la Loire.

Shaped by centuries of interaction between the river, the land it irrigates and the populations that have settled there throughout history, it is exceptional for its fauna, its flora and its mosaic of climates, soils, reliefs and orientation, which have earned it its inclusion since 2000 on the UNESCO World Heritage List as a living cultural landscape.

Living lab PROBIO - Czech republic

The Living Lab PROBIO leverages over 15 years of organic farming experience to develop, test, and implement sustainable agricultural practices that can serve as a model for other regions facing similar challenges. By addressing these critical environmental issues, the Living Lab aims to secure the long-term viability of farming in the region while enhancing ecosystem health and resilience.

SECO COLLAB - Sweden

SECO Collab is built around a vertical farm by Swegreen at Fotografiska Museum. It aims to enhancing the resilient and developing sustainable food ecosystem in Scandinavia and Europe by delivering sustainable, climate-resilient food solutions and a model of reproductive collaboration around local and hyper-local food production, particularly in the urban context.

Through technology, community engagement and data science, it aims to enable better food production, with shorter logistics and distribution for aware consumption.

THALLA LL - Greece

The LL deals with five key selected product types (Honey, tomato, wheat, olives, fish & aquaculture) leading to contingency planning that integrates economic, social, and environmental aspects as well as policy recommendations at regional, country and EU level, in order to strengthen food systems’ resilience.

Following an open innovation approach and based on agroecology practices, and LLs co-design methods and tools, a set of short- and long-term local case studies of relevant solutions will be provided. Building on the quadruple and quintuple helix approach (policy makers, research, citizens, farmers and food processors), a dynamic monitoring and early warning system will be established to share knowledge, nurture a community of practices, raise open public dialogue, enhance citizenship engagement and change customer preferences.