North West Europe Regional Platform Meeting: “Reducing food waste across the EU: stakeholder collaboration to achieve a transparent and sustainable food supply chain”
11 February 2016, Amsterdam
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Dear stakeholder,
On behalf of FUSIONS, BIO by Deloitte warmly invites you to attend the last North West Regional Platform meeting, “Reducing food waste across the EU: stakeholder collaboration to achieve a transparent and sustainable food supply chain” on 11 February 2016 at the Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Metropolitan Solutions (AMS) in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
FUSIONS (Food Use for Social Innovation by Optimising Waste Prevention Strategies) is a project about working towards a more resource efficient Europe by significantly reducing food waste. The project runs for 4 years, from August 2012 to July 2016 and is funded by the European Commission Framework Programme 7.
Within FUSIONS, several regional platform meetings have been organised within the 4 European Regions (Scandinavia, North-West Europe, Central-East Europe, and Southern Europe). This Amsterdam-based RPM will have a special focus on the retail sector as well as on entrepreneurial and socially innovative projects.
Regional meeting facilitate networking amongst stakeholders, discuss FUSIONS topics through consultation sessions as a means of helping the project progress, and obtain insight into more innovative ideas to fight food waste within the region and the EU at large. This meeting is free of charge and open to any non-members who want to find out more about FUSIONS.
Below please find some practical information about the event:
Spoken and written language of the meeting o English
Venue: o AMS Institue Mauritskade 62, 1092 AD Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Lunch: o Complimentary coffee and tea will provided by KIT Meetings & Events along with a networking no-food waste lunch (complete with vegetarian options), provided by Taste Before you Waste to participants
Transportation: o From the Schipol airport: By ground transport - Get on and follow A4 and A10 to Hartveldseweg/Middenweg/s113 in Diemen. Take exit Diemen from A10 Follow s113 to Mauritskade in Amsterdam-Oost, Amsterdam Turn left onto Hartveldseweg/Middenweg/s113 (signs for Watergraafsmeer) Turn left onto Linnaeusstraat/s113 and turn left onto Mauritskade/s100
o From the Amsterdam Centraal train station: By tram and foot - Take line 9 towards Diemen (Sniep) and get off at Alexanderplein Walk east on Alexanderplein towards Mauritskade/s100, turn right onto Mauritskade/s100
Accommodation options: o Plantage Garden Apartments: Plantage Muidergracht 35, Centre of Amsterdam, 1018 TL Amsterdam (0,9 km from AMS Institute) o Hotel Rembrandt: Weteringschans 253, Centre of Amsterdam, 1017 XJ Amsterdam, Netherlands (0,9 km from AMS Institute)
Registration information: o Please confirm your attendance by 4 February 2016 at 18:00 by filling out the following registration sheet. Questions? Send an email to: [email protected] or [email protected]. o Participation is free of charge
If you belong to an organisation that has a focus on preventing or reducing food waste, please feel free to bring posters or leaflets to share with participants.
We look forward to welcoming you at the AMS Institute-sponsored RPM! Best wishes, Stephanie Burgos and Manuela Gheoldus BIO by Deloitte
Agenda 9h45 Registration and welcome coffee
Introduction 10h00 Welcome and agenda presentation: Stephanie Burgos & Manuela Gheoldus, BIO 10h10 FUSIONS presentation and update: Toine Timmermans and Hilke Bos-Brouwers, WUR
How to build trust across the food supply chain to collectively reduce food waste? (Best practices – focus on retail sector & policy) 10h30 Keynote speakers (Retailers): - Benoît Liégey - Delhaize Group - Peter Werre - Ahold Netherlands 11:00 Questions to keynote speakers 11:15 Policy-oriented consultation sessions: - Introduction by Manuela Gheoldus & Stephanie Burgos, BIO 11:20 Rotating breakout sessions Group 1: The role of Group 2: FUSIONS work on Group 3: Feasibility Study municipalities/policy in Scenario Analysis Projects – Results and supporting Experimental Facilitators: Lusine Replication: Encouraging the Testing Pilots and living Aramyan, Natasha Valeeva wider take-up of social labs & Lissane van Geffen (WUR) innovation activities Facilitator: AMS Institute Facilitators: Giorgio Bagordo (WRAP)
12:35 Feedback collected from breakout sessions
12h45 Lunch catered by “Taste Before You Waste”
How can entrepreneurial efforts/social innovation contribute to a transparent food supply chain? 13h45 Keynote speakers: - FSE Network – Amsterdam Hub Netherlands - Instock – Netherlands - Food Loop – Germany 14:35 Questions to keynote speakers 14:55 Entrepreneurial/socially innovative-oriented consultation sessions: Introduction by Stephanie Burgos & Manuela Gheoldus, BIO 15:00 Rotating breakout sessions Group 1: Contribution from Group 2: How can digital Group 3: Communicate & social entrepreneurs in technology help connect Disseminate on FUSIONS! Developing and Testing players throughout the Facilitators: Manuela out-of-the-box solutions in supply chain? Gheoldus & Stephanie Living Labs Facilitator: Christoph Müller- Burgos (BIO) Facilitator: AMS Institute Dechent (FoodLoop)
16:15 Feedback collected from breakout sessions
Conclusions 16:25 Life after FUSIONS: REFRESH, New projects, and the possibilities to get involved: Toine Timmermans and Hilke Bos-Brouwers, WUR