Globescan (GLOBE)
Leading Tasks
T5.1: Stakeholder Advisory Group and EU engagement
Lead: GLOBE (16PM).
Effort by contributors: ZHAW (1PM). Timing: M4-48. The creation of a multi- actor Advisory Group will ensure there is a dialogue between industry, regulators and scientists throughout WP1-6 during the 4-year project. Members’ unique expert perspectives will enable them to share feedback on deliverables from other WPs, and share ideas, suggestions and improvements that result in the creation of more useful and accessible solutions. The global Advisory Group will incorporate a wide range of food industry actors (suppliers, retailers, farmers), consumer representatives, regulators (government, policy makers, advisors etc.) and scientists (e.g. academic leads from other WPs). Throughout the 4-year project we will ensure at least one in-person workshop takes place each year between the Advisory Group and broader interested parties e.g., policymakers, EU representatives etc. The 1.5 day workshops will be used to bring business, research and legislative stakeholders together to ensure interests are aligned and solutions are effective. The workshops will be used for a variety of things e.g. to share expertise, explore policy requirements, feed into solution design, trial solutions etc. Insights will feed into other WPs throughout the years. These regular meetings will build and strengthen the network across the food system, with the aim of encouraging more uptake and promotion of the proposed end solutions. Additionally, we will create a Governance Committee. Setting up a Governance Committee will ensure successful and efficient running of WP5 as the group will organise, facilitate and execute tasks within WP5, ensure timelines and deliverables are met, and share sector/topic expertise where required. The Governance Committee will consist of 3-4 members, with potential partners including Cool Farm and The Nature Conservancy. The extensive, multi-actor networks of each Governance Committee member will also be utilised throughout the project.
This task is linked to the following milestones: MS5.1 (M8).
T5.2: Stakeholder insights: Horizon Scanning to Identify Gaps Toward TRL 7
Lead: GLOBE (16PM).
Effort by contributors: ULEI (1PM), UOY (1PM), ETHZ (1PM). Timing: M10-18. Primary research will be conducted with members of the Advisory Group and their wider industry networks of hundreds of food system stakeholders across Europe in the form of an online survey to explore current context around industry use of LCA data e.g. economic and technical barriers to access, consumer expectations, needs, priorities, opportunities, current use patterns, and suggestions for improvements etc. Horizon scanning is a triage-based method designed to elicit top concerns and policy priorities of different groups through workshops or surveys, and will be used to revise, refine and rank research priorities or questions for LCA/footprint tool development, like 'Top 30 food industry priorities for food footprinting tools'.
Additionally as part of this task we will undertake a research and insights dissemination and feedback session. During an in-person or online briefing and collaboration session (online session would utilise GlobeScan’s proprietary collaboration forum software which offers automatic translation into alternate languages) the Advisory Group would be presented with relevant primary data and insights (from Task 3.3 and Task 5.3), plus other proprietary research from the Governance Committee (e.g. EAT/GlobeScan’s Grains of Truth report). Advisory Group feedback and reactions to this data will help identify where there is stakeholder and end-consumer alignment or differences (synergies or trade-offs) in the needs and wants around the environmental information on food and the potential solutions. It will identify areas where solutions are needed, alongside barriers and motivators, with findings from discussions feeding into WP4. Contributes to:
D5.1 (M18).
T5.3: Evaluation of potential solutions for industry readiness
Lead: GLOBE (5PM).
Effort by contributors: ULEI (1PM). Timing: M24-48. In-person workshops or roundtable sessions with the Advisory Group will share some of the solutions explored and developed in WP2 (Task 2.4) and WP4 and gather multi-actor feedback on them. This will allow for deeper engagement, dialogue and alignment between those providing, enforcing and using the solutions to ensure the most innovative and accessible solutions are discovered. They will help identify potential quick-wins, solutions which need more long-term investment, and solutions which may not be appropriate for further investigation. Insights gathered on industry readiness and uptake of solutions will inform assessment of their potential scalability within the EU (Task 3.7). This task contributes to D5.2 (M40). Contributes to:
D5.2 (M40).
T3.3: Consumer survey to develop EU food consumption futures for EU contries
Lead: GLOBE (10PM).
Effort by contributors: ULEI (15PM). Timing: M23-28. To understand consumer preference or opposition towards certain food solutions, a new quantitative consumer survey will be carried out to explore the likely uptake of various innovative food solutions and the trade-offs consumers would make. A representative sample of n=1,000 will be obtained in each EU member state with population >5m, stratified by sub-groups in EU food consumption microdata and national food intake surveys of non-EU countries, aligned with Task 3.1. Contributes to:
D3.1 (M28).
Responsible For Deliverables
Deliverable D3.1 — Consumer survey report
| Deliverable Number | D3.1 | Lead Beneficiary | GLOBE |
| Deliverable Name | Consumer survey report | ||
| Type | R | Dissemination Level | PU |
| Due Date (month) | M28 | Work Package No | 3 |
| Description | |||
| Not available |
Deliverable D5.1 — Stakeholder insights report
| Deliverable Number | D5.1 | Lead Beneficiary | GLOBE |
| Deliverable Name | Stakeholder insights report | ||
| Type | R | Dissemination Level | PU |
| Due Date (month) | M18 | Work Package No | 5 |
| Description | |||
| Not available |
Deliverable D5.2 — Stakeholder evaluation
| Deliverable Number | D5.2 | Lead Beneficiary | GLOBE |
| Deliverable Name | Stakeholder evaluation | ||
| Type | R | Dissemination Level | PU |
| Due Date (month) | M40 | Work Package No | 5 |
| Description | |||
| Not available |
Responsible For Milestones
MS5.1: Creation of a stakeholder advisory group to support throughout WP1-6
Means of verification: Group created.
Due M8.
Lead Partner: GLOBE
MS5.2: Introduction of GreenGrocer activities to the ESRS working group.
Means of verification: Communication of the outcomes of the project during a ESRS meeting.
Due M24.
Lead Partner: GLOBE
Contributions in WP5
Contributing 2PM to:
T5.4: Standard uptake through engagement with the European Financial Reporting Advisory Group
Lead: CLIMCO (23PM).
Effort by contributors: GLOBE (2PM), NILU (1PM), NILUAB (1PM), ULEI (1PM), UOY (1PM), COOL (1PM). Timing: M1-48. DDMXX this should not appear since we should not re-initailize again in tasks.ts. To support EU disclosure regulation a continuous effort will be dedicated to integrating the insights acquired from this and adjacent portfolio projects into the development relevant sustainability reporting standard setters, including EFRAG and others, e.g. GRI and/or ISSB considering evolving policy contexts. Particular attention will be given to supporting European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS), focussing on the sector-specific standards for the food and beverages sector. Two team members from Climate & Company are seconded to EFRAG’s writing team for the sector standards Agriculture, Farming and Fishing as well as Food and Beverages. They will be able to include significant insights from GREENGROCER into shaping the disclosure requirements of the latter. While EFRAG remains a key standard setter to engage, we recommend broadening our engagement to include other relevant standard setters, particularly GRI and potentially ISSB. This broadened approach is especially important considering the EU Commission’s Omnibus Proposal, which increases the relative relevance of voluntary, internationally recognized standards like GRI. Including those stakeholders, too, could enhance the project’s relevance and impact. The development of the Food and Beverages standard relies on leveraging scientific insights into the ESG impacts of food and beverage systems to formulate disclosure requirements that are both ambitious in addressing the needs of people and the planet, while also being practical and feasible for companies to report on. Furthermore, the insights of this project will help to create meaningful and comparable data that is used by financial institutions to make informed investment decisions, necessary for the sustainable transition. Milestones: M5.2 Introduction of GreenGrocer activities to the ESRS working group (M24). In this task we will create an online platform (exact format TBD) that will highlight and help match innovative solutions developed in the project and challenges and information gaps in sustainability disclosure field, especially within regard to the food sector. By explicitly showcasing both solutions and challenges, we can better match innovative approaches with existing needs and help project outputs to take policy needs into consideration more easily and timely. This platform would serve as an interface between solution providers (e.g. researchers from the project consortium) and those that need them (e.g. standard setters). While standard-setters (EFRAG and others) are an important audience, we envision the platform and its content being accessible and informative to a broader group, including companies aiming to improve their sustainability reporting and the financial sector developing financing solutions for the transition. Similarly, we could also showcase relevant solutions beyond the project through the platform. While active engagement by different groups directly on / through the platform would be valuable, the platform can also function as a resource for us to extract insights and share them with relevant contacts. Contributes to:
D5.3 (M22).
This task is linked to the following milestones: MS5.2 (M24).
Contributing 2PM to:
T5.6: Pratice Abstracts
Lead: UOXF (1.5PM).
Effort by contributors: GLOBE (2PM). Timing: M1-48. Practice abstracts (lead: OXFORD, COOL, participants: All, timing: M1-M48). This project requires a multi- actor approach. This means that we should deliver practical knowledge/approaches/tools, following a defined template and disseminate it through appropriate channels. This is done through the so called “practice abstracts”. The project will deliver two (2) Practice abstracts (PAs) in the EIP-AGRI format. Practice Abstracts aim to facilitate the flow of information from projects to end-users and share relevant innovative and practice-oriented knowledge developed in the projects. The resulting innovative knowledge from this project will feed into the EIP-AGRI (The agricultural European Innovation Partnership) website for broad dissemination to practitioners. End-user material will be produced in the form of a number of summaries for practitioners in the EIP common format ("practice abstracts"). The project details will also be submitted to the platform with the first deliverable submission. We will follow the guidance and templates from the EIP-AGRI web site: http://ec.europa.eu/eip/agriculture/en/content/eip-agri-common-format. A total target number of two (2) practice abstracts is foreseen for the project. Contributes to:
D5.6 (M48), D5.7 (M24).
Contributions in WP6
Contributing 2PM to:
T6.3: Outreach communication dissemination and clustering
Lead: NILU (9PM).
Effort by contributors: UOY (3PM), GLOBE (2PM), ETHZ (1PM), UOXF (1PM), ARBO (1PM), ZHAW (1PM), ULEI (0.5PM), INTEC (0.5PM). Timing: M1-49. In this task, we will manage activities related to outreach, communication and dissemination. We will develop and regularly update a communication and dissemination plan that will identify effective communication and dissemination activities and guide partners in WP1-5 to implement these. We will develop a visual identity and project website, and manage and update the various communication channels (website and social media accounts). We will create a log of events to guide partners in communication activities. We will support WP5 with the stakeholder workshops. Further, the task will stimulate knowledge sharing activities such as training and webinars across the consortium. Lastly, the task will actively seek to link with other cluster EU HE activities.
This task is linked to the following milestones: MS6.1 (M4).
Contributing 1PM to:
T6.1: Management of financial legal and administrative requirements
Lead: NILU (9PM).
Effort by contributors: NILUAB (2PM), UOY (2PM), ETHZ (1PM), GLOBE (1PM), SEI (1PM), UOXF (1PM), ARBO (1PM), COOL (1PM), CLIMCO (1PM), ULAT (1PM), BUW (1PM), DDS (1PM), ZHAW (1PM), ULEI (0.5PM), INTEC (0.5PM). Timing: M1-49. In this task we will manage and coordinate all financial and administrative activities in the project, including monitoring and maintaining the overall adherence to the financial budgets. T1.1 will deliver a project toolbox to ensure a smooth communication and cooperation between the project partners. This task will forward the EU contribution according to the work plan, the Consortium Agreement and the decisions made by the consortium. The administrative and financial monitoring of the project will be done by the project coordinator in cooperation with the Project Management Board (coordinator and WP leaders).