Synergies

NETWORKING

The TealHelix project aims to broaden its impact by fostering synergies with relevant EU initiatives through joint actions, knowledge sharing, and strategic partnerships. To explore potential collaborations, please use this form to get in touch with the TealHelix’s Dissemination and Communication team.

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CUES

Consumers’ Understanding of Eating Sustainably

CUES addresses the urgent need for a more sustainable food system that benefits the environment, society, and the economy. The project aims to foster a Triple Change in the food system concerning culture, food value chain, and policy. To this end, CUES will pilot nine food system interventions and policy dialogues, actively involving consumers, food value chain actors and policymakers. A learning community and toolkits for behavioural change and communication will be developed to motivate 3 million consumers to make sustainable food choices.

Key words: Food system, Consumers, Persuasive cues

FEAST

Food systems that support transitions to hEalthy And Sustainable dieTs

FEAST aims to drive Europe’s just transition to a ‘Win-Win-Win-Win’ food system, benefiting people, the planet, and both the public and private sectors. Through Horizon Europe, it supports shifting away from the current ‘Lose-Lose-Lose-Win’ system, where only large food corporations benefit while the environment, health, and public sector suffer. FEAST strives to make healthier, more sustainable diets accessible to all. By building on best practices and co-designing innovative solutions with stakeholders—including vulnerable groups—FEAST identifies ways to empower and support a just transition to healthier and more sustainable dietary behaviours across all levels and sectors of the food system.

Key words: Sustainable Food Systems, Healthy Dietary Behaviour, Just Food Transition

3-CO

Concise Consumer Communication through Robust Labels for Biobased Systems

The 3-CO project aims to improve the sustainability performance and competitiveness of bio-based systems and will focus on consumer-oriented labelling options for sustainable industrial BBPs. The supportive framework that will be developed in 3-CO includes actionable guidelines for label design for LCS owners that reflect consumers’ and other stakeholders’ needs, digital solutions to support better-informed decision-making processes of consumers as well as policy recommendations on deploying social measures. This framework is going to enable and support consumers to make more sustainable/environmentally responsible purchasing choices.

Key words: Sustainable Labelling, Consumer Empowerment, Bio-Based Products

INFOODMATION

Optimising food information and communication towards healthier and more sustainable dietary patterns

Infoodmation is an EU project that studies how media, marketing, and social media influence our food choices. It looks at how messages affect different groups—especially vulnerable ones like children—and aims to help shape healthier, more sustainable eating habits. The project will develop policy recommendations, best practices, and tools for food system actors, supported by a public Knowledge Hub.

Key words: Food communication, Media influence, Healthy diets, Sustainable food

VISION4FOOD

Envisioning an integrated quadruple helix and RRI framework for food system transformation and regional innovation ecosystem enhancement

VISION4FOOD aims to build sustainable and resilient food systems by creating governance models that help local actors make better decisions. It works in five regions, with diverse challenges, strengths, and innovation capacities. A key goal is to establish food innovation platforms, collaborative hubs for researchers, businesses, policymakers, and citizens. Based on co-creation, open science and RRI principles, the project produces acceleration agendas, builds networks for knowledge sharing and aims to create a guidebook for sustainable food systems across Europe.

Key words: Quadruple Helix, Governance Models, Regional Innovation

Excel4Pro

Strengthening the Capacity of Excellence Hubs of Türkiye, Greece, and Ukraine to Support Innovation Ecosystem of Novel Foods Based on Plant Proteins

Excel4Pro aims to enhance the innovation capacity of Excellence Hubs in Türkiye, Greece, and Ukraine to support regional ecosystems focused on plant-protein-based novel foods. Excel4Pro addresses the nutritional, environmental, and technological challenges in current plant-based food products by advancing mild processing techniques, supporting cross-border knowledge exchange, and investing in research and upskilling. With 17 partners from academia, business, public authorities, and civil society, Excel4Pro contributes to EU priorities like the Green Deal, Farm to Fork Strategy, and climate action through a collaborative, place-based approach to sustainable food system transformation.

Key words: Plant-based innovation, Excellence Hubs, Sustainable food systems