Organization Earth

Organization Earth
Athens, Greece

THE INNOVATION:

Organization Earth is a Greek Non-profit Civil Society Organization founded in 2010 that promotes Sustainable Development. It offers programmes of non-formal education and by facilitating community based activities, with a focus on vulnerable populations living in
urban centers. They also promote, develop and disseminate information, knowledge and expertise related to Organic Agriculture and Sustainable Food Systems. The Aephoria initiative by Organization Earth is Greece’s first sustainable business education and accelerator program for start-ups and entrepreneurial ventures with innovative, societal, and environmentally responsible business ideas.

LOOKING AHEAD:

Organization Earth strives to become a next-generation NGO, addressing the 17 SDGs, whilst developing partnerships, programmes and services to help address long-term social issues, as well as pressing climate issues. This maturing process will require the leveraging of social entrepreneurship in the Green Economy as a key tool.

 

More Information:
Website: www.organizationearth.org
Contact Person: Vickie Stavropoulou
Email: [email protected]

 

Info about the Innovators and the Innovation portraits Catalogue

FoodSHIFT 2030 aims to launch an ambitious citizen-driven transition of the European food system towards a low carbon circular future, including a shift to less meat and more plant based diets. This transition is necessary in order to address the pressing challenges for food and nutrition security, contribute to the EU commitment of reducing GHG emissions by at least 40% by 2030, and revitalize urban-rural linkages and partnerships.

To do so, it establishes FoodSHIFT Accelerator Labs for maturing, combining, upscaling and multiplying existing food system innovations across nine front-runner city-regions. In turn these innovations contribute to the FoodSHIFT vision.

An Innovation Catalogue called “Innovation Portraits” was created to snapshot each of the Food Innovations connected with each of the FoodSHIFT Accelerator Labs (FALs) across the 9 city regions.

Info about the Innovation Portraits Catalogue

The Innovation Catalogue will snapshot each of the Food Innovations connected with each of the FoodSHIFT Accelerator Labs (FALs) across the 9 city regions. Each FAL has a dedicated innovation focus and each chapter will present innovation cases from a particular FAL. For each of the innovations presented, a snapshot of the innovation concept and purpose will be given, alongside the key impacts the innovation has in relation to the FoodSHIFT Impact Pathways and the acceleration ambitions of the innovation.

In addition, each innovation portrait is also categorized according to its Innovation Dimension. These dimensions indicate what kind of innovation is being presented, and where in the value chain it plays a role. This is indicated by these tabs. The dimensions are defined as follows:

Product – Innovations in this category address new or updated products, including quality, safety and market impact.

Process – These innovations are relevant to new technologies for processing, logistical improvements, infrastructure and new/improved services.

Social – Innovations in this category are relevant to changes in behaviour (e.g. consumers/citizens), development of new relationships and inclusiveness.

Governance – The innovations address policy developments, including food planning, subsidies, taxing, certificates & labelling.

Learn more about all the Innovation portraits: https://foodshift2030.eu/meet-the-people-changing-your-food-system/