Priorities and funded actions
Objectives
- To identify potential improvements in meal packaging
- To promote sustainability and circularity in the sector
Priorities
Priority 1 – Taking into consideration specific requirements of consumers, related to takeaway food, such as meals ordered – from restaurants, catering providers or food delivery services
Priority 2 – Involving local food service providers and packaging companies
Among the contractual tasks of subcontractrors
- Scientific organisation
- Responsibility for the organisation and delivery of sessions with 3 consumer teams in the country of operations
- Selection of consumers-participants of the Labs session to ensuring the participation of at least 15 consumers
- Communication with consumers-participants of the Labs session
- Translation of Labs session scripts and materials between English and the local language
- Involvement in the process of developing prototypes and selecting the most technically viable and commercially feasible new product concepts co-created by consumers
- Communicating with local media to ensure at least 1 publication in the local language
- Food service provider
- Delivering sample takeaway meal(s) to about 15 consumers participating in the Labs session, enabling them to better understand specific design challenges related to meal packaging and consequences of specific packaging options for the properties of the delivered dishes
- Selection of at least one new product co-created by consumers participating in the Labs session (innovative packaging design) that will be commercialised jointly by food service provider/packaging company, with commitment to introduce the product to the market in the first half of 2023
- Communicating with local media to ensure at least 1 publication in the local language
- Packaging company
- Demonstrating samples of packaging materials and design options to consumers participating in the Labs
- Involving product design specialist(s) to work with consumer teams and the scientific organisation on capturing the specific ideas put forward by consumers and representing them in specialist software (such as commercial CAD systems or TinkerCAD) as 3D models of potential meal packaging, followed by the preparation of mock-ups/prototypes
- Selection of at least one new product co-created by consumers participating in the Labs session (innovative packaging design) that will be commercialised jointly by food service provider/packaging company, with commitment to introduce the product to the market in the first half of 2023
- Communicating with local media to ensure at least 1 publication in the local language
Additional information
- This call for expression of interest is an open call for expression of interest
- EIT Food is looking for a consortium consisting of 3 organisations operating in the same country:
- scientific organisation
- food service provider
- packaging company
- Only one consortium can be selected in each of the target countries
Eligibility
- Be a legal person operating in one of the EIT RIS countries
- Be able to sign a subcontracting agreement with the EIT Food Co-Location Centre and act as a subcontractor in a project funded based on Horizon Europe/EIT modalities
