Meet the Winners:
PINACLE

Personalized Individualized Nutrition
using Available Community LeftOvers

“Promoting personalized nutrition and health awareness,
by matching food donations with recipient needs
and reducing food waste”

About

Overview

PINACLE proposes a targeted dietary and nutrition recommendation tool that considers, assigns and effectively matches food donations with recipient dietary requirements through an advanced personalized approach towards more healthy diets. The goal of the proposed solution is twofold. First, to digitally shape existing redistribution networks for food surplus/waste and secondly, to enable nutrition and health awareness recommendations to participants (recipients of the food) of the network.PINACLE aims to support the food system by: i) responsible and targeted/personalized nutrition, ii) donation sustainability, iii) reduced food waste, iv) trusted data exchanges. PINACLE will be validated in realistic scenarios and by real food donation recipients.

PINACLE aims to develop a solution that will provide responsible, AI-based and tailored-produced dietary recommendations to recipients of donated food (charities, elderly clinics, special care hosts etc.) also considering the resource availability of donated food in foodbanks. A significant focus will be given on privacy-preserving digital identity technologies such as DLTs, Verifiable Credentials and Zero-Knowledge Proofs (ZKPs) to store user profiles (health issues, non-communicable diseases, etc.) following EU regulations (GDPR, eIDAS).

Technology & Innovation

Impact & Scalability

Impact:
– Empower citizens facing food insecurity to make healthy choices
– Contribute to more sustainable food chain
– Reduce food waste and decrease carbon footprint
– Support vulnerable communities
– Efficient redistribution networks
– Promote healthier Communities


Scalability:
– 6 MoUs signed with municipalities in Greece
– Following eIDAS standards which ensures interoperability across the EU
– Modular design for easier integration of new features
– User-friendly mobile app, co-designed with end-users

Meet the Partners

Konnecta Systems
P.C

Greece
SME

Konnecta is an IT consulting SME specializing in Connected Intelligence Application Systems and Digital Transformation Solutions. A key aspect of Konnecta’s commercial vision is the use of cutting-edge technologies such as DLTs, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Extended Reality (XR) and Digital Twins, which help organizations connect creating digital ecosystems, optimizing their operations and processes, promoting innovation, while avoiding implementation and security risks. Konnecta is building prototypes across sectors in several EC research projects (NGI TREVO, ZEROW, DT4GS, PROBONO, SYNAIRG and more), while cybersecurity and privacy-related tasks are a major part of the activities.

COHESION NETWORK 2GETHER

Greece
SME

Co2gether participates as a foodbank and as a food recipient. Co2gether will bring in the project expertise for the identification/ development of solutions for tackling the needs of vulnerable populations. In addition, Co2gether will leverage the established cooperations with municipalities of the Region of Western Greece (currently 6 signed MoUs), charity and municipality social organizations of the Region, with the Hellenic Open University, and with the “Eutrophia” Nutrition Laboratory, to identify and reach people with health conditions and in need for tailored and nutritious food through its foodbank, as target group of the project. The Organization also contributes with knowledge and experience gained through its attempt to address identified needs: 1) to match available surplus food to health needs and preferences of people, 2) to track the process of food storage and delivery in a transparent manner, with the use of a software tool.

Sapienza University of Rome

Italy
University

“The Food Science and Human Nutrition” research unit of the Sapienza University in Rome (Italy) provides evidence in the fields of (1) malnutrition (validation of tools for the assessment of the nutritional status, ethics of the nutritional intervention etc.), (2) obesity and metabolism, (3) eating behavior, (4) sustainability of Mediterranean Diet (nutritional indicators of sustainability), (5) food nutritional labels (front-of-pack nutritional labels). Particular research involves mechanisms (incl. AI/ML or similar) for the nutritional assessment of food, diet creation etc. Indicative projects and works include: FOODCONS (food consumption DB), Nutritional intervention ethics and more.

Open Call #2 List of Winners

GENIE
Cacao-Tech
PINACLE