Our paper titled "Online grocery shopping in Europe: consumer research on the role of innovation and local food perceptions" has been published in British Food Journal  with Esther Van Parys, PhD, as the first author. The paper provides a first multi-country assessment for the determinants of the adoption of online grocery shopping in a European context. New insights into the role of local food perceptions in online grocery shopping adoption are gathered, which can support the market access for small and medium-sized producers.

During September 16-17, 2024, the Mid Term meeting of FoodMAPP project (MSCA SE grant 101086115) was held at Lyfe Institut in Ecully near Lyon, France. The partners have gathered in hybrid mode with project leaders at institutions present in person and most of secondees online, counting altogether 29 participants to make the project checkpoint after 18 project months and completed initial work packages. Maxime Michaud welcomed guests to Ecully as the meeting host. The representatives of partners each presented their own WPs and results: Jeffrey Bray,  Bournemouth University  – introduced partners to technical status of the project Esther Van Parys and Hans De Steur,  Ghent University  – presented WP1 results Gergely Bencsik and Ádám Tarcsi, Eotvos Lorand University  – presented WP2 progress Vinko Lešić, UNIZG-FER  – presented WP3 and WP5 progress Maxime Michaud,  Lyfe Institut  – presented WP4 plans Djamel Rahmani,  CREDA institute , and Barbara Ronge,  Ronge & Partner  – presented Spanish and Austrian perspectives on results so far and on prototype testing possibilities. Gianluca Coluccio – PO of FoodMAPP wished a warm welcome and held a discussion with seconded staff members, offering advices and communication support. In a two-day meetings, the partners discussed about the project results so far and have set plans for future activites to to promote local food purchasing and reduce food waste. Meeting photo is available in detail news content.

Project FoodMAPP partners coordinated and submitted a proposal for Interreg Central Europe Call 2023. Project proposal entitled "ForeSCAPE – AI-enhanced Weather Forecasting for Interregional Resilience to Climate Change" envisions to further exploit learnings and premises of FoodMAPP project to Central European case study, through pilots and living labs of Agriculture and Food Supply Chain with the goal of increasing their resilience to climate changes by improved, localized and transformed weather forecasts, tailored for specific end-use cases.

Welcome to the central website of FoodMAPP project. This will be the central gateway of our activities during next four years where you can find information about the project, partners, our research results and up to date activities. The project has received funding from the European Union’s MARIE SKŁODOWSKA-CURIE ACTIONS Staff Exchanges (SE) research and innovation programme under grant agreement 101086115 and UKRI grant agreement EP/X037134/1.