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Sustainabilty Hub for Producers, Consumers, Market Organizers and Influencers

Balázs Polgár

CEO & Founder at SmartMBSE - RELio

Budapest, Hungary

About

With our ecosystem solution, we primarily target committed people: people, who are conscious, who are committed to sustainability, who care about the common good, respect the interests of others, and want to contribute to a value-oriented, community-based ecosystem. 

Our solution helps sales transition from the long, centralized, fragile supply chain model to a short, distributed, resilient sales model.

We help the collaboration of committed people having different roles (producers, consumers, market organizers, enthusiast of communities, change makers, advocacy orgs, cooperatives, groceries, municipalities, sustainability influencers, etc.) to create the following types of ecosystems:

  1. Farm2table marketplace
    This marketplace is at the core of our initiative: we defined a sophisticated collaboration model differentiating possible roles along the sales value chain and identified beneficiaries who can fulfill these roles. With the separation of platform roles and market actors (the beneficiaries) we created a flexible farm2table marketplace that can support a wide range of real-life collaboration scenarios on the sales supply side.

    On the demand side our approach is the organization of consumers into groups: either around a pick-up point or within an existing community. We encourage members to form purchase groups that can attract farmers to offer and deliver their products directly to them.

  2. Short supply chain ecosystem for FMCG
    Making other sustainability related products (e.g., eco-friendly household cleaning products) available for the local purchase groups is an obvious extension of the food marketplace (that serves the needs of the consumers). Applying the same sales and purchase model is beneficial also for the producers of these sustainability-supporting products.

  3. Network of marketplaces

    Based on the above approach multiple marketplaces can be operated according to different needs (e.g., only for organic food, or for honey, for a selected region, or for a local food trademark), all needing autonomy in market organization (define their own rules, or their quality assurance system). At the same time a unified view of these multiple marketplaces is useful for both consumers and pick-up points (they can be interested in the products of multiple marketplaces).

  4. Marketplace extended with sustainability focused community space:  an ecosystem focusing on the common good, where both economic, social, and environmental sustainability is considered and where both information sharing, attitude formation and common actions (as purchasing collectively from local, sustainable sources or sharing objects) are targeted,

  5. Sustainability related community space and service hub: where information, consumers, multiple producers, and multiple service providers are present, where their individual impact is aggregated, and they strengthen each other (previous level + integrated sustainability related services provided by 3rd parties) .

We already have a marketplace solution operated since 2016, extended with FMCG some years ago, developed the platform for multiple marketplaces recently, as part of the SOTECIN project (launched the Organic Food Marketplace in April 2025) and looking for partnerships for geographic scaling and to reach next functionality levels.

Looking for

  • Other

Applies to

  • Food, Water & Nutrients

Organisation

SmartMBSE - RELio

Company (SME)

Budapest, Hungary

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