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OrganicDataNetwork
Full project title: Data Network for better European organic
market information
Acronym: OrganicDataNetwork
Project number: Grant agreement no. 289376
Duration: 1 January 2012 to 31 December 2014
Project leader: Prof. Dr. Raffaele Zanoli, Università
Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy
Project webpage: http://www.organicdatanetwork.net/
Main funder: European Commission (FP7)
Contact staff at IFOAM EU Group: IFOAM EU Group will be involved in
the dissemination activities and will also take part in several other
activities for a successful project.
Other staff involved: Andrzej Szeremeta, Lena Wietheger
Project aims
The project, Data Network for better
European organic market information (OrganicDataNetwork) aims to increase the transparency
of the European organic food market through better availability of market
intelligence about the sector to meet the needs of policy makers and actors
involved in organic markets.
This overall objective will be
broken up into key objectives:
- Bring together stakeholders and bodies
actively involved in organic market data collection and publication and
review the needs of end-users with respect to organic market data
- Provide an inventory of relevant private
and public bodies that are involved with the collection, processing and
dissemination of organic market data in Europe
- Classify existing methods of organic market
data collection and develop criteria for quality improvement of available
data
- Collect, store in a common format and
provide access to currently available data on organic markets in Europe
- Develop and test common methodologies to
assess the consistency of national data, with special reference to
available data on trade flows
- Test innovative approaches to improve the
data collection and market reporting in six case study regions
- Disseminate project results and develop
recommendations including a code of practise for organic market data
collection and network beyond the conclusion of the project
To achieve these objectives,
OrganicDataNetwork includes as partners a varieties of bodies (from 10
countries) that collect, publish and analyse such data. This network will
closely co-operate with the EC, Eurostat and statistical offices of Member
States, using existing structures for collecting and processing data on the
organic market and stimulating the development of new ones by adapting existing
models. The partnership will act as co-ordinating centre between stakeholders,
and will result in a proposal for the establishment of a permanent network to
achieve collaboration on statistical issues regarding organic market.
IFOAM EU Group
role
IFOAM EU Group
will together with the work package leader and the other responsible partners
take part in different dissemination and communication tools to distribute the
activities and the results of the project. Some of the tools that will be
adopted during the project:
i)Project website;
ii)Newsletter and press releases;
iii)Multimedia presentations
iiii)Participation at events
Project leader and partners
- UNIVERSITA’ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE (UPM) Italy (project leader)
- FORSCHUNGSINSTITUT FUR BIOLOGISCHENLANDBAU
STIFTUNG (FiBL) Switzerland
- UNIVERSITAET KASSEL (UKS) Germany
- CESKA ZEMEDELSKA UNIVERZITA v PRAZE (CULS) Czech Republic
- CENTRO INTERNAZIONALE DI ALTI STUDI AGRONOMICI MEDITERRANEI -
ISTITUTO AGRONOMICO
- MEDITERRANEO DI BARI (IAMB) Italy
- AGENCE FRANCAISE POUR LE DEVELOPPEMENT ET LA PROMOTION DE
L'AGRICULTURE BIOLOGIQUE (ABIO) France
- AGRARMARKT INFORMATIONS GESELLSCHAFT MBH (AMI)
Germany
- ORGANIC-MARKET.INFO (BMI) Germany
- BIOCOP PRODUCTOS BIOLOGICOS S.A (BIOCOP) Spain
- ECOZEPT GBR (ECO) Germany
- CENTRE FOR ECOLOGIAL ENGINEERING (CEET) Estonia
- INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF ORGANIC
AGRICULTURAL MOVEMENTS EUROPEAN UNION REGIONAL GROUP (IFOAM EU) Belgium
- IMO-CONTROL SERTIFIKASYON Tic. Ltd. Sti.
(IMOTR), Turkey
- THE SOIL ASSOCIATION LIMITED (SA) United Kingdom
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