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§ 52 Dnr KS/2017:233
Samarbetsavtal med Holland och Finland
Bakgrund
Region Östergötland har sedan flertalet år haft ett samarbete med Food Valley i Holland. Detta för att hitta synergieffekter inom specialiseringsområdet livsmedel och nutrition. Man ser även möjligheter att gemensamt söka finansiering inom EU där samarbetet utökas till att även omfatta Finland, region södra Osterbothnia.
Sammanfattning
Partnerskapsavtalet innebär att tre parter har intentionen att samarbeta genom ömsesidiga utbyten och kunskapsöverföringar. Dessutom finns intentionen att gå vidare och söka finansiering för projekt inom Farm to Fork (EU-medel). I detta avtal åtar sig Xxxxxx kommun inga finansiella förpliktelser utan det är endast en intention att samarbeta och att göra framtida ansökningar gällande EU- finansiering.
Beslutsunderlag Tjänsteskrivelse 2021-02-22 Letter of Partnership, LoP
Arbetsutskottets förslag till kommunstyrelsen
1. Kommunstyrelsen ställer sig bakom beslutet att ingå i det mer formella partnerskapet genom att kommunstyrelsens ordförande signerar LoP.
Beslutet skickas till: Kommunstyrelsen
Xxxxxxxx- och kommunikationschef Kommundirektör
Tf förvaltningschef SoT Projektsamordnare Akten
Justerandes sign Utdragsbestyrkande
Kommun
Tjänsteskrivelse
Datum Diarienummer
förvaltni 2021-02-22 KS/2017:233
Handläggare
Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxxxxx 000-000 00 00
Kommunstyrelsen
Letter of Partnership med Holland och Finland
Bakgrund
Region Östergötland har sedan flertalet år haft ett samarbete med Food Valley i Holland. Detta för att hitta synergieffekter inom specialiseringsområdet livsmedel och nutrition. Man ser även möjligheter att gemensamt söka finansiering inom EU där samarbetet utökas till att även omfatta Finland, region södra Osterbothnia.
Sammanfattning
Partnerskapsavtalet innebär att tre parter har intentionen att samarbeta genom ömsesidiga utbyten och kunskapsöverföringar. Dessutom finns intentionen att gå vidare och söka finansiering för projekt inom Farm to Fork (EU-medel). I detta avtal åtar sig Xxxxxx kommun inga finansiella förpliktelser utan det är endast en intention att samarbeta och att göra framtida ansökningar gällande EU-finansiering.
Beslutsunderlag Tjänsteskrivelse 2021-02-22 Letter of Partnership, LoP
Kommunstyrelsens förvaltnings förslag till beslut
1. Kommunstyrelsen ställer sig bakom beslutet att ingå i det mer formella partnerskapet genom att kommunstyrelsens ordförande signerar LoP.
Beslutet skickas till:
Xxxxxxxx- och kommunikationschef Kommundirektör
Tf förvaltningschef SoT Projektsamordnare Akten
Po | Besöksadress | Telefon | Internetadress | Bankgironummer |
Mj | Xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 00-00 | 0000 - 000 00 | 791-9848 | |
Ko | Telefax | e-postadress | ||
59 | 0142-851 20 |
Tjänsteskrivelse
Datum Diarienummer
2021-03-08 KS/2017:233
Beskrivning av ärendet
Detta samarbete ligger i linje med kommunens idé om ett Upplevelsecentra för Mat där projektet behöver samarbetspartner dels för kunskapsutbyten och dels för framtida delfinansiering av bland annat projektorganisation under planeringstid fram till byggstart.
I partneravtalet ingår tre länder på tre nivåer vilket innebär regional, kommunal samt projektnivå. I Holland innebär det Regio Food Valley, Ede kommun med World Food Center. För Finland del är de olika partnerna Region South Osterbothnia, Seinäjoki kommun och Frami Food Lab på Seinäjoki universitet. För Mjölbys del är det Region Östergötland, Mjölby kommun och projektet Upplevelsecentrat för mat som signerar.
Syfte
Syftet med LoP är att utbyta kunskap och information med andra länder och att äska gemensamma projektmedel från EU.
Finansiering/ekonomiska konsekvenser
Detta Letter of Partnership innehåller varken några finansiella eller praktiska åtaganden för Mjölby kommuns del.
Kommunikation av styrdokumentet
Var och en av parterna i LoP skriver under dokumentet och behåller ett original. För vår del är det Region Östergötland som kommer att signera på regional nivå och Mjölby kommun på lokal och projektnivå.
Kommunstyrelsens förvaltning
Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxx Kommundirektör
Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxxxxx Projektledare/samordnare
Postadress | Besöksadress | Telefon | Internetadress | Bankgironummer |
Mjölby kommun | Xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 00-00 | 0000 - 000 00 | 791-9848 | |
Kommunstyrelsens förvaltning | Telefax | e-postadress |
595 80 MJÖLBY 0142-851 20 xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxx.xx
Letter of Partnership in the context of
S3-thematic partnership: Consumer involvement in Agri-food Innovation.
Food Experience Center Mjölby (S) World Food Center Experience Ede (NL) Frami Food Lab Seinäjoki (FIN)
1. Exploring mutual cooperation
Experience Centers are year-round open places for consumers to get familiar with the modern agriculture and contemporary food challenges and to participate in experiments and demonstrations relating to the food sector. These centers can also be the fora for public debates as well as purchasing and experiencing local food. There is also a vast range of possibilities for a multi institutional consumer involvement research program, international showcase of the agri-food sector and other B-2-B and B-2-C activities.
The overall mission in the cooperation is to transform the food value chain by involving consumers to contribute to a more sustainable and healthy food chain and thereby contribute to the UN Sustainable Development Goals and FAO 2030 Visions for of resilient, integrated, sustainable and inclusive food systems, which ensure that all people in all places are free from hunger and all forms of malnutrition and to develop and implement initiatives on food loss and waste reduction.
Collaborating actions
Regio Food Valley, Region Östergötland and Region South Ostrobothnia will in the short term actively seek synergies to work on addressing different challenges we face in the food chain. In practice this will mean that the executing entities (such as the municipality of Ede and WFC in FoodValley, municipality of Mjölby and Region Östergötland in Östergötland and Farmi Food lab and Seinäjoki municipality in South Ostrobothnia) will seek cooperation or undertake communal actions on subjects such as rebuilding trust between producers and consumers, finding new business opportunities within the food chain, and increasing information about contemporary food challenges. To do so it is crucial to shorten the perceived distance between producers and consumers, and to find ways to reconnect them. Collaborative actions underway are:
Connecting visitors and content:
⮚ Collect and share best practises in consumer involvement in the following fields: sustainable food production, healthcare and food as prevention for diseases, interactions as consumers but also as citizens and raising awareness & stimulating public debate.
⮚ Build trust between producers and consumers, to find new business opportunities within the food chain, and to increase information on innovations in the food chain, it is crucial to shorten the perceived distance between producers and consumers, and to find ways to reconnect them.
Co-learning communities:
⮚ Establish and build virtual/physical arenas and platforms for consumers, producers, food industry and the governmental organisations to meet and use these as test beds to demonstrate, test and foster new concepts, products or services as well as to get data (where privacy regulations let us) about consumers.
⮚ Develop joint programs concerning guidance and education regarding consumer behaviour as well as developing tools for consumers to help them to make the right conscious choices in purchasing and preparing food. This requires involvement from knowledge institutes and governmental organisations as well as all stakeholders in the food chain.
⮚ Collaborate and share experience to support each other with knowledge, information, and concrete joint ventures.
⮚ Continuous contact between this three parties and share news and experiences as colleagues.
⮚ Include new actors/regions to be part of the initiatives and contribute to the mission and active work with and connect to other initiatives in relevant regions, such as Central Denmark/ Aarhus region, the CEMAS center in Valencia (via Ede) and SERN network in Italy (via Mjölby). Or link to other initiatives from within our regions, such as Poultry Expertise Center (between Region Östergötland and Region FoodValley) or Food Academy Nijkerk (also in Region FoodValley).
⮚ In the SP3 consumer Involvement consortium we also want to work toward concrete projects in which all actions mentioned above can merge: one of them could be the World Food Summit in 2024 in Ede, organized with our regions (and others). We have also a workstream connected to experience centers in this consortium.
2. Head partners
The World Food Center (WFC) in the Regio Food Valley (NL), focuses on consumer involvement, empowerment and awareness. World Food Center fulfils a key role, with its central location in the heart of the innovative Foodvalley: the spot where more and more entrepreneurs, public authorities and educational institutions work together on our food supply of the future.
Everything revolves around food at the World Food Center: the ultimate food meeting place in the Netherlands.
This area will be a hotbed of interaction between businesses and consumers, with the crowd-pulling World Food Center Experience. This themed attraction will pull in more than 300,000 visitors from 2023: a place where consumers are offered an extraordinary experience all about food and food production. Businesses settling here will find an excellent space for research or for experimenting and engaging in dialogue with the target group.
Food Excperience center (FEC) is a planned experience centre for food in the municipality of Mjölby in Östergötland. FEC will constitute an interactive bridge between multilevel aspects of food and food production and the consumers. It will be a place for modern agriculture to communicate and make essential cycles in the foodchain visible and understandable for the society. The facility will include interactive exhibitions and education, showrooms for new innovations generated by Linköping University, a signature window for Vreta Kluster Science Park for Agri-food, urban agriculture showcases, lecture halls, restaurants and shops. The center will be a tourist attraction, that not only amuse people but also educate. Last but not least, the center will have a visual link to other initiatives like the World Food Centre in Food Valley.
Frami Food Lab (FFL) are the food laboratories of the Seinäjoki University of Applied Sciences (SeAMK). The goal is to create a unique multidisciplinary learning environment in the Frami-campus complex. FFL brings together the students in the food chain under the same roof. The aim is to allow students to interact and collaborate with researchers and other partners. Also, the facilities allow companies to co-operate with SeAMK and make valuable R&D with students and university staff. The new facilities also support closer collaboration with international partners. Frami Food Lab ecosystem has been funded by European Regional Development Fund
3. Next steps
Regio Food Valley, Region Östergötland and Region South Ostrobothnia will in the short term actively seek synergies between these three initiatives and seek EU funding for the collaboration.
For several partners from each region, there are means (small budget and manhours) to shape the collaboration and cooperation further in 2021. For 2022 new means will be have to be found to do proceed collaboration. Ideas for EU funding will be further elaborated and shaped. These ideas can match possible EU funds. If it’s clear that certain funds are very applicable to the partners in this LOP, then further input (budget wise and manhours) will be explicated to pursue these funds.
The actors involved in the development of FEC are interested in acquiring information and best practices from the WFC-initiative in Ede. Especially concerning the role of the municipality, how the operational units of the experience center functions, as well as to search for new investors, avoid potential pitfalls etc. In order to facilitate this, RFV, RÖ and RSO are planning to organize virtual or physical workshops on identified relevant
subjects. In the long term, our hope is that this initiative will connect with similar activities in the other partnership-regions.
4. Partners
Regio Food Valley, chairman Xxxx Xxxxxxxx
On behalf of the board of Ede Municipality, alderman Food and WFC Xxxx Xxxxxx
On behalf of the board of the World Food Center foundation, chairman Xxxx xxx xxx Xxxxx
(For the other partners, see next pages)
Region Östergötland director regional development Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx
On behalf of the board of Mjölby Municipality, chairman Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxx
On behalf of the Project initiative: Food Experience Center at Mjölby Municipality,
Managing director Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxx
(For the other partners, see next page)
Region South Ostrobothnia
Seinäjoki Municipality
Seinäjoki University of Applied Sciences