📋 Tender Overview
Start Date: 06/11/2023
End Date: 05/05/2028
Total Eligible Budget: 2,945,883 €
EU Contribution: 1,767,530 €
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
BACKGROUND
The general objective of the LIFE ECO FOOD CHOICE project is to share learnings and experiences at EU level, in order to develop and test new methodologies for life cycle inventories and environmental scores on food, as well as a labeling scheme. The project is led by 9 organisations from 4 EU countries - France, Germany, the Netherlands and Spain - and its results will enable the further development in each country of national and regional databases, as well as food environmental impacts' labeling schemes. More specifically, the project entails the following tasks: The development of a harmonised methodology for life cycle inventory in Europe, as well as guidelines to adapt life cycle data from one country or region to another, with the creation of new datasets covering 30 products in 3 country (Germany, the Netherlands and Spain) The development of a harmonised methodology for aggregating the LCA scores and complementing them to calculate a food environmental score (E-score), and a classification scheme The development of a label format and visual, that will be tested and validated in real life conditions with consumers and farmers. The pilots will be organized in laboratories, supermarkets and canteens, in France, Germany, the Netherlands and Spain, reaching 56 300 European consumers in total.
