Pilot lead on Food Innovation

Gourmet Bornholm is a regional food and culture association based on the Danish island. With a municipality-driven commitment to sustainability across different ecosystems, the association is skilled is fostering consumption of locally produced foods and promoting culturally rooted food production and consumption practices.

The organisation is heavily interested in partaking in Horizon Europe call HORIZON-CL6-2027-02-COMMUNITIES-02: Empowering local urban food systems entrepreneurship and innovation, as a pilot partner_,_ developing an innovative business case in which several of the many smokehouses on the island, are utilised for alternative food solutions, outside of their conventional use.

In this call, GB is interested to lead a pilot on the island, building knowledge on food conservation methods and local cultural heritage around the subject. Specifically, GB has the following to offer and contribute:

·       To provide an innovative solution, producing a pilot food product using the smokehouses during the months they are vacant. Other preservation methods that suit the island’s food ecosystem include fermentation, food byproducts from beer production.

·       To provide a socio-economic exploitation case around the product(s), in the form of a cooperative, a brand of an existing enterprise, a start-up or similar enterprise, with the purpose of deploying the solution. This will require collaboration with a Danish knowledge partner as there will be a study to be carried out.

We believe that by developing these, we are contributing to the following outcomes required by the call: multi-actor governance models, co-creation among local actors, pilot decentralised local capacities and ecosystems, networks and solutions through the local capacities, pilot implementation to accelerate urban food system transformation and scalability and connect with already established R&I initiatives.