VALUMICS
Understanding food value chains and network dynamics
Thematic complex:
Securing the world’s food supply and competitive supply chains
Project duration:
01.06.2017
- 30.09.2021
Investigated countries:
Belgium,
Bulgaria,
Denmark,
Germany,
Estonia,
Finland,
France,
Greece,
United Kingdom,
Ireland,
Italy,
Croatia,
Latvia,
Lithuania,
Luxembourg,
Malta,
Netherlands,
Austria,
Poland,
Portugal,
Romania,
Sweden,
Slovakia,
Slovenia,
Spain,
Czech Republic,
Hungary,
Cyprus
The overall objective of the VALUMICS project is to provide decision makers throughout food value chains with a comprehensive suite of approaches and tools that will enable them to evaluate the impact of strategic and operational policies, and enhance the resilience, integrity and sustainability of food value chains for European countries. The VALUMICS project offers a comprehensive and multi-dimensional scope that will go beyond the current state of art to provide new approaches and tools for stakeholders on several fronts. This includes new modelling approaches, consumer research, foresight analysis and synthesis into policy options, adding new perspectives for policy makers, both in government and within the food industry sector. The dynamics within the food systems will be modelled using a causal loop analysis framework, covering the interconnected value, supply, and decision chains.
Project partners
- Coordination: University of Iceland, Iceland
- SINTEF Ocean, Norway
- Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke), Finland
- University of Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
- Collaborating Centre on Sustainable Consumption and Production (CSCP), Germany
- Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna, Italy
- Czech University of Agriculture Prague, Czech Republic
- University College Dublin, Ireland
- Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies (IAMO), Germany
- Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations (IDDRI), France
- University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom
- European Aquaculture Society (EAS), Belgium
- MarkMar ehf, Iceland
- Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
- FIAB Federacion Espanola de Industrias de la Alimentacion Y Bebidas, Spain
- ERVET – Emilia-Romagna Valorizzazione Economica Territorio SpA, Italy
- Lappeenranta University of Technology LUT, Finland
- Assist Software SRL, Romania
- University of Economic Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
- China Agricultural University, China
- REWE International DienstleistungGmbH, Austria
Support
The VALUMICS project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 727243.
Project Staff
Dr. Miranda Svanidze
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Prof. Dr. Heinrich Hockmann
Dr. Oleksandr Perekhozhuk
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Dr. Tinoush Jamali Jaghdani
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Dr. Ivan Duric
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Dr. Inna Levkovych
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Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Thomas Glauben
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PD Dr. habil. Linde Götz
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