October 15-16, 2019 - London

Horticultural family producers involved in the FONTAGRO project

July 29th - Isaac Newton Building, University of Lincoln

E-consultation for the European Parliament's study on Megatrends in the Agrifoodchain until 2050

July 8th 2019

Future success and growth for SFSCs in Europe is not something to take for granted

€500 million invested in over 80 multi-actor projects

Addressing the needs of farmers and agriculture through training activities

25-26 June 2016 - Lisieux, France

Hangzhou, China, 22-27 June 2019

Bologna 3-4 June 2019

The role of H2020 Thematic Networks in EU Agricultural Innovation - June 11th 2019

Logistic and Distribution - 8-10 May 2019, Palazzo della Valle (Rome, Italy)

EIB to unlock EUR 2 billion for agriculture across Europe with special support for young farmers

A social network analysis of building relationships in SKIN

25-26 June 2019

26-28 June 2019

Final Report on EIP-AGRI Operational Groups now available

Watch the short video interview of our partner from Cooperativa Agroalimentarias

University of Chichester, October 2016

Read the latest EIP Agri brochure on short food supply chain

Agri-food cooperatives conference on 20th February 2019 at ETSIA, Madrid

The Agri food community next Innovation Challenge Workshop: 13-14 February 2019, Dublin

Large and open GI data and open GI software for smart regions and cities, smart transport and smart farming

10 - 13 January 2019

Spanish producers are increasingly taking advantage of the booming Internet and digital commerce in order to shorten the supply chain and therefore improve their profitability

Brussels, 19 December 2018

Water, grains, spices and hops for a 100% organic beer

Short food supply chain is one possibility for the future of farming, and the future needs talented young ambassadors

Budapest, October 2018

16-17th October, Tbilisi (Georgia)

June 2018 edition

September 28th, 2018

11th October 2018

25th Congress of the Polish Association of Agricultural and Agribusiness Economists

Our Good Practice is one among the 5 finalists for the COPA-COGECA #WomenFarmers Innovation Award 2018

The 22^ndInternational Conference on Information Systems for Agriculture and Forestry (ISAF) - Pilsen, October 3rd-4th 2018

Discover our project and its connection to the short food supply chain regulation

The next SKIN Innovation Workshop is happening in Warsavia on November 2018

13 September 2018, Bari, Italy

Hungary, 25-26 September 2018

An inspirational idea from our good practice Roes in Belgium

ISP, ZLTO, HAS and UGENT - members of the SKIN Working Group on Fresh products - identified 39 good practices related to fresh short food supply chains.

5-6 September 2018, University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany

The core question around the next SKIN Innovation Challenge Workshop, Budapest on 25-26 of September 2018

Budapest, 10-11th of September 2018

Martin Collison, from our partner organisation Collison Associates, will have a dedicated talk at the Aldeburgh Food Festival Conference, An Appetite for Change - Eating Wisely Well

September 28th 2018, Snape - Suffolk

SKIN has set a robust pathway for its second period activities

July 2nd 2018

20 June 2018

Local engagement activities driving interest on the project and pave the way for short food chain development

Engaging with local actors in Manfredonia (27 April 2018) and San Severo (03 May 2018)

IX International Agriculture Symposium - Jahorina, 4-7 October 2018

Inspirational field trip among good practices in Belgium and The Netherlands

A series of thematic events from June 4th 2018 to June 14th

European seminar: fostering innovation

New paper by University of Foggia

6 June 2018 - A great opportunity for SKIN to engage with stakeholders communities

Tourinnes la Grosse, 17-18 May 2018

An event jointly organised by SWGs ARCH, AKIS & Food Systems, the 6th of April in Rome

 4-5 April 2018 in Budapest, Hungary

About 100 good practices have been collected by SKIN consortium representing collective actions, environmental concerns, regional developments related to several food products, thematic models and beyond

You are invited for a day filled with inspiration

The Short Supply Chain Knowledge and Innovation Network, SKIN, continued its discovery trip among local good practices and innovative short food chains stories by meeting the people behind the short food supply chain practices in Austria.

8-9 March 2018

Short Chain 2.0, Local and Digital!

Innovation in the supply chain: creating value together

February the 1st 2018 

Leading local events, opportunities for SKIN to engage with local and EU stakeholders

Infrastructural, ecological, public service, economic, social and cultural inequalities worthily preoccupy debates concerning the ‘urban-rural’ divide

Food Security, Sustainable Agriculture and Forestry, Marine, Maritime and Inland Water Research and the bioeconomy 2018-2020

The Short Supply Chain Knowledge and Innovation Network, SKIN, is where good practices and local stories of innovation in the short food chains domain are. This is the place where food plays an essential role in bringing producers and society values on food together.

European Commission, Covent Garden Building

I paesaggi aperti agro-pastorali del Mediterraneo: genesi, economie, governo del territorio

15th Conference  on Innovation and Cooperation in Smart, Sustainable and Inclusive Rural Regions

Brussels, 18-19 September 2017

In the Wales Rural Development Plan & European Innovation Partnership (2014 - 2020)

Cooperative strategies, value creation and food chains sustainability - September 13 - 16  

September 21 - 24, Chania, Crete, Greece

On June 23, Fedele Colantuono presented the project SKIN at the Apulia Region premises in Brussels

In occasion of the event "Coordinators Day", organized by the EC in Brussels, on June 22,  Sara Djelveh presented the project SKIN during the meeting dedicated to projects financed within the call H2020-SC2-2016 (RUR 10)

SKIN presentation at Campden BRI UK day

An opportunity to stimulate interest and foster debate

On May 23, SKIN was featured among the excellencies in research at the University of Foggia

Great opportunities for SKIN

Surfing on the Innovation hype curve: Time to explore business models for agtech technologies on the innovation trigger

An ambitious initiative is taking its first steps towards setting up a European network on Short Food Supply Chains (SFSC), where food is conceived as a place for trust, where producers and society must meet for the economy of the future. 

Faculty of Regional Development and International Studies of Mendel University

SKIN innovative approach showcased at leading thematic workshop