Work Package I Project coordination and management
Objective
- Ensure effective project management and coordination, including legal issues, internal and external reporting, day-today management and sound financial management;
- Set-up and implement a monitoring and evaluation framework for project activities and outputs;
- Arrangement and streamline of consortium meetings, general assemblies and final conference and ensure the implementation of the proposed organizational structure and decision-making processes;
- Handle risk management;
- Handle data management, open science and protection of internal property rights (IPR);
- Ensure ethical compliance (social, environmental);
- Maintain communication and interaction with the complementing projects and the External Advisory Board (EAB)
Tasks
- T 1.1 Day-to-day project management and support
- T 1.2 Scientific Coordination, monitoring and risk management
- T1.3 Financial management and reporting
- T 1.4 Knowledge and Data Management
- T1.5 Ethics management
Deliverables
- D1.1 Project Management Plan
- D1.2 Data Management Plan
- D1.3 Data Management Plan V2
- D1.4 Data Management Plan V3
Work Package II Development of sustainable food trade systems by facilitation and scaling of innovation transfer
Objective
- To scout innovations from the network of WU, HSWT and the African partners, which have solutions for the most urgent challenges in the food value chain;
- Fostering the innovation transfer into practice with an AI based networking platform, joint innovation hubs in Africa and sensitization for an entrepreneurial mindset among researchers (e.g. PhD students);
- Developing training and educational material for empowering and supporting women in entrepreneurship;
- To implement hybrid training for farmers to improve farming methods towards higher climate resilience, reduction of post-harvest losses and economic growth;
- Raising awareness among the general population on a plant based diet and supporting startups and business ideas with focusing on alternative proteins;
Tasks
- T 2.1 Scouting innovations for the challenges in the food trade system
- T 2.2 Innovation transfer into practice
- T 2.3 Knowledge transfer
- T 2.4 Value creation for farmers and reduction of post-harvest losses
- T 2.5 Alternative protein sources
Deliverables
- D2.1 SOP startup
- D2.2 Networking platform
- D2.3 Knowledge transfer
- D2.4 Innovation hubs and model farms
- D2.5 Startup competition
Work Package III Digitalization for efficient trade relations
Objective
- Provide a survey of the current state of digital solutions to scale up and enhance existing good practices and digital solutions from participating countries as well as to share their experiences and solutions;
- Provide recommendations to ministries on seamless exchange of trade-data by providing a proof of concept digital solutions and demonstration at stakeholders (living labs) in support of rules of origin, traceability and certification based on globally established standards;
- Support the both the formal and the informal sector, identify the stakeholders, their needs and offer suitable best practices that lead to the acceptance of digital solutions;
- Provide a digital innovation platform based on existing solutions used in beneficiary countries and train members of trade organisations and trade communities on the benefits, implementation and use of traceability standards.
Tasks
- T3.1 Outlining of existing landscape of guidelines, good practices, and examples of digital solutions
- T3.2 Defining recommendations for adoption and scaling-up
- T3.3 Develop a digital innovation platform
- T3.4 Developing training materials and delivery of training on standards and traceability applications
Deliverables
- D3.1 African digital landscape
- D3.2 1st version of recommendations on digital adoption and scaling-up
- D3.3 2nd version of recommendations on digital adoption and scaling-up
- D3.4 1st version of digital innovation platform
- D3.5 2nd version of digital innovation platform
- D3.6 1st round of training material and delivery of training
- D3.7 2nd round of training material and delivery of training
Work Package IV Analysis, Modelling, and Policy Recommendations on Non-Tariff Measures in Intra-African and EU-AU Trade
Objective
- To conduct comprehensive mapping of NTMs: Systematically identify, categorize, and map non-tariff measures affecting intra-African and EU-African Union trade, leveraging existing databases, literature reviews, and stakeholder consultations to create a detailed landscape of NTMs;
- To develop and refine modelling frameworks: Build and enhance econometric and simulation models to analyze the consequences of NTMs on trade dynamics, considering different scenarios such as policy amendments, market trends, and external economic shifts;
- To engage stakeholders in the mapping process: Facilitate consultations and workshops with key stakeholders, including trade officials, industry representatives, and academic experts, to validate the mapping findings and align the analysis with policy and business needs;
- To formulate policy recommendations based on mapping and analysis: Develop targeted policy recommendations aimed at mitigating the adverse effects of NTMs identified through mapping, enhancing trade facilitation, and promoting the harmonization of standards and regulations between the EU and African Union, as well as within Africa.
Tasks
- T4.1 Mapping of Non-Tariff Barriers in the EU and Participating African Countries
- T4.2 Awareness and Impact Study of Non-Tariff Barriers in EU and African Countries
- T4.3 Formulation of Recommendations Process
- T4.4 Dissemination of Recommendations
Deliverables
- D4.1 NTM mapping report
- D4.2 Impact Study
- D4.3 Formulation and recommendations Process
- D4.4 Policy recommendations document
- D4.5 Awareness and engagement toolkit
- D4.6 Advocacy report
- D4.7 Set of policy briefs
Work Package V Leveraging Innovation and Knowledge Transfer
Objective
- Development of thematic calls for online courses for innovation & nutrition;
- Integration of the online courses within the learning platform;
- Transfer calls for innovations in the food value chain;
Tasks
- T5.1 Calls for digital online courses
- T5.2 Innovation transfer by third party partners
Deliverables
- D5.1 Steering Evaluation Committee
- D5.2 Innovation grants
- D5.3 Knowledge grants
Work Package VI Comprehensive Dissemination and Exploitation Framework
Objective
- Implement a comprehensive and effective set of dissemination and communication activities;
- Create awareness about project results and stimulate stakeholders’ (innovators, producers, policymakers) engagement through its rich content in social media and presentation of the STREAMING
results in conferences/expos; - Provide relevant policy recommendations co-developed through dialogue with and engagement of stakeholders;
- Educate researchers and practitioners on topics like climate change, sustainability, novel food technologies, waste utilization etc. and create instruction/teaching materials to be used by academia/industry;
- Stimulate discussion, best solutions exchange and experience sharing including through fostering interaction with other ongoing initiatives/projects and creation of STREAMING community outside the consortium who will further spread the outputs of the action;
- Ensure exploitation & sustainability by the carrying out of general public awareness initiatives about sustainability and health within the food value chain.
Tasks
- T6.1 Preparation of dissemination, exploitation and communication plan and launch of project channels
- T6.2 Executing communication and dissemination activities and administration of DES
- T6.3 Public engagement activities and creation of Impact Community
- T6.4 Knowledge transfer and clustering activities
Deliverables
- D6.1 Dissemination, exploitation and communication plan
- D6.2 Project website
- D6.3 ’Towards Impact Communities guide‘
- D6.4 Knowledge transfer and clustering activities
- D6.5 Dissemination, exploitation and communication plan V2
- D6.6 Dissemination, exploitation and communication plan V3
- D6.7 Practice Abstracts – batch 1
- D6.8 Practice Abstracts – batch 2