The collaboration between the Guide and Filiera Futura, the Italian network for promoting innovation in the agribusiness sector, starts this year. Let’s find out together.
Who is Future Chain
Future Supply Chain is an association of 24 members-including banking foundations, universities, trade associations-active since 2020 throughout Italy to promote innovation in the agribusiness sector. Protects the wealth of biodiversity, knowledge, customs and traditions by adopting new models and sharing best practices. It collaborates with entities and institutions at the national and European levels to create new synergies, develop a common approach on each supply chain, and support the uniqueness and competitiveness of made-in-Italy agrifood production.
Its members include associations and universities active in the rural and agribusiness sectors. Future Chain’s entry into the Europlanning Guide partnership brings new expertise and skills to delve deeper into a topic of great relevance in the area of European funds.
The partnership between the Guide and Future Supply Chain.
The Future Supply Chain Network offers a close and specialized look at the world of policies, funds, programs and projects in the agricultural, rural and agribusiness sectors; at the evolution and innovation in these areas; and at the opportunities open to stakeholders in the various target supply chains.
Given the thematic specialization of Filiera Futura, its collaboration with the Guide looms first and foremost as a technical partnership, aimed at developing synergies in terms of initiatives, actions, and content development that concern on the one hand the field of europlanning and on the other the agricultural, rural, and agribusiness sector.
These synergies will bear fruit in the pages of this Guide and beyond.
Sectoral insights
During this year, the Guide will develop more content regarding agricultural and rural policies and funds, such as the FEAGA, the EAFRD, the CAP and the CAP National Strategic Plan: topical issues as, as we have already mentioned, this is an area that just between 2022 and 2023 is going through a major renewal phase in the community.
A new news category dedicated to this sector, to systematize articles already published and give visibility to new contributions that will be developed as part of the partnership with Filiera Futura. More updates will be published to provide tools, answers and information on the agribusiness sector that covers, alone, a little more than a third of the entire 2021-2027 community programming.
Experiences and best practices
Many of the experiences already presented within the appropriate section of our Guide come from the rural and agri-food sector, reflecting the wealth of good practices and energy that this sector can offer the world of europlanning (e.g: 1 – 2 | 3 – 4 | 5 – 6 ).
The participation of Future Supply Chain will bring new proposals to be presented within the pages of our Guide. In fact, the collection of the most innovative practices from its target sectors is one of its activities, to which it devotes ample space, full of interesting ideas and insights, in a’ appropriate section of its website.
Research, events and training
The same kind of synergy may apply to the areas of research and event organization, other aspects central in the action of Future Chain .
On the research front, we point, for example, to a publication that analyzes in detail 17 supply chains of excellence , representative of as many Italian territories, presenting their elements of innovation and enhancement, fragilities and potential. Filiera Futura also promoted together with Fondazione Cariplo the qualitative-quantitative research “ Nourishing School” , currently underway, conducted by the University of Gastronomic Sciences in Pollenzo in Italian schools with the aim of investigating the relationship between food and children, with particular regard to the changes brought about by the pandemic and the related environmental, social and economic costs.
On the events front, the partnership will eventually lead to an increased focus on this issue within the training moments organized by the Europlanning Guide, for example through the presence of experts in the field expressed by Filiera Futura and its network; and to a greater presence of the Guide alongside rural and agribusiness actors and within the in-depth events organized by Future Chain.
Future supply chain, a common program
The synergies with the Europlanning Guide are moreover evident from the analysis of the 2023 program of Future Chain, which includes among its priorities for the year the promotion of “participation in national and European networks, information opportunities for the benefit of members and target territories about funding opportunities for projects and initiatives from the European Union” and support for the “realization of projects to be applied on European calls for proposals involving local agri-food chains that can be replicated in members’ territories.”
A warm welcome
“We are honored to become part of the ambitious publishing project of the Europlanning Guide, which since its inception has been a reference point for finding one’s way around the complex system of EU funds and European planning,” says Francesco Cappello, president of Filiera Futura Association. “Even in agribusiness and production, today it is increasingly essential to have the ability and vision to act with a European horizon, staying up-to-date on opportunities to access funds and identifying in EU programming opportunities to enhance and innovate Made in Italy and quality productions, which characterize the territories of our members.”
Francesco Cappello, president of Filiera Futura
We therefore welcome Future Supply Chain to the Guide partnership, preparing as of now for good work together in areas of mutual interest.
