SKIN was a Horizon 2020 Thematic Network focused on innovation in short food supply chains. SKIN assembled 20 partners in 14 countries to compile best practices and stimulate co-innovation among producers, consumers, advisors and researchers.
The project overall aimed to break the fragmentation of local food initiatives by promoting cooperation, co-creation and cross-fertilisation of ideas among actors in the supply chain. The AgILe lab led the co-design of a highly user-centred handbook for the identification of good practices in different farm and contextual conditions (subsequently adapted for FAIRshare and STEP-UP).
The lab also led the co-design of the first iteration participatory multi-actor toolbox – in collaboration with sister project CERERE & AgriDemo-F2F (now the AgILe Living Lab Toolbox) – to use in the co-design approaches of the project’s 6 Innovation Challenges, which brought diverse actors ad stakeholders together to generate new ideas and solutions for scaling up short chains.
The project created an EU-wide community and knowledge hub for short supply chain innovators, laying groundwork for new Horizon Europe Advisory Networks like COREnet, for which the AgILe lab is now leading the co-adaptation of its Living Lab toolbox that originally began with SKIN.