FUSILLI Deliverable 1.5: Living Lab Roadmaps

Abstract

The aim of the FUSILLI project is to help the 12 partner cities create the innovative and participatory environment needed to transform their respective food systems in a way that both makes them more sustainable and enables other cities within and outside the project learn from them. The main tool for this is the Living Lab each partner city has created for the FUSILLI project. This deliverable (D1.5) complies the twelve roadmaps the cities have developed to guide the creation of their Labs. These contain the main milestones of this process that they have achieved and those planned for the rest of the project period, and some background information giving context for the choices made. The deliverable should be seen in relation to other FUSILLI Deliverables, primarily D3.3 and D3.5 which are planning out and reporting on in greater details the various Actions each city is undertaking to achieve food system transformation.The Living Labs developed by each city provides an innovation ecosystem for the cities to test and implement new solutions. Each city’s Lab and the process for developing them is highly different to reflect the institutional, economical, and physical realities of each city, but they follow some similar themes. The Labs include partners from most or all the quadruple-helix innovation sector framework partners: Local governments, researchers, commercial actors and residents. Additionally, the natural environment has a strong presence in each Lab. This quadruple helix (or quintuple when counting the natural environment) helps the cities innovate on a foundation of a broad range of perspectives and expertise and gives them a built-in vehicle for enacting and evaluating the innovation they create. The main work of this deliverable is done by the twelve FUSILLI cities and their Living Lab partners, and each roadmap is tailored to their own needs. The great diversity of the twelve FUSILLI cities when it comes to geography, social context, legal frameworks, economic systems, resources available to project partners, and culture for food and collaboration translates into heterogeneous, Living Lab roadmaps, and heterogeneous Living Labs. The aim of food system transformation and the overarching method of Living Labs is the same in each city, but the FUSILLI Actions, activities, and strategies vary substantially. Furthermore, the quantity and range of actors vary from lab to lab, and the division of roles between them: In some cities the Municipalities have a very strong role in driving the Labs forwards, while other cities have flatter governance structures. Some Labs encompass the entire city and all the activities the city undertake to transform their food system, while other Labs focuses on specific parts of the food system or geographical parts of the city.