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CHORIZO aims to improve the understanding of how social norms influence behaviour and FLW generation and use this knowledge to improve the effectiveness of decision-making and engagement of food chain actors, towards zero food waste.

Objectives

Project´s particular goals are to address existing research gaps and will use its outcomes to deliver and advance innovations helping actors to engage more effectively in food waste prevention and reduction activities

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Evidence-based analysis

To undertake a comprehensive evidence-
based analysis of previous/ongoing FLW
prevention/reduction actions and tools,
including a cost/benefit
analysis and an impact assessment.

Food loss & waste Datahub

To develop an FLW Datahub (Chorizo FLW Insighter),
which will incorporate the results of the evidence-based
analysis of previous/ongoing
FLW actions, new empirical case study evidence on social norms,
consumer behaviour, economic actor behaviour and charity
behaviour in relation to FLW.

Analytics backbone development

To develop a modelling &
predictive analytics backbone
based on data from the CSs, and
use it to discover and explain
the correlations between social norms,
business practices, consumer behaviour
and food waste.

Changes in Social norms & behaviours

To foster change in
social norms and behaviours,
by embedding the new evidence
and understanding gained on
FLW-related social norms
and behaviours.

Project's innovation upscaling

To manage the project’s
innovation upscaling effectively,
by a strategy for the exploitation
of the project results and
implementing responsible innovation
management practices that guide
the project to exploitable and
sustainable outcomes.

Exploitation, dissemination & communication

To undertake appropriate
dissemination, exploitation
and communication actions
to maximise the project’s
impact outside the consortium.

Case Studies

Implementing six Case Studies to overcome shortcomings of the evidence-based analysis associated to the use of secondary data.

Case 1

Household food waste in and off crisis periods

Case 2

Hospitality food waste

Case 3

Food services food waste

Case 4

School food waste and relation with obesity and malnutrition

Case 5

Food waste in a food banks’ mediated supply chain

Case 6

Food waste in relation to date marking and sustainable and smart food packaging

News

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Jul 03 2025

BREAKING NEWS | CHORIZO Practice Abstracts Now Live on EIP-AGRI Website!

The EIP-AGRI website has just published the second batch of Practice Abstracts from the EU-funded CHORIZO project (Changing practices and Habits through Open, Responsible and Social Innovation), offering valuable insights and tools to tackle food...
Jul 01 2025

CHORIZO #10 Newsletter is out! Changing norms, habits, and practices to reduce consumer food waste in the hospitality sector

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Jun 11 2025

The 8th Webinar of the CIG on Food Waste Prevention: Capacity building session on social norms to reduce food waste in cities

June 11, 2025 On Wednesday 11 June, city practitioners and urban food system experts came together for a capacity-building webinar on how to leverage social norms to prevent food waste in cities. The session was hosted in the framework of the City...
May 23 2025

CHORIZO Project at FOODPathS Festival 2025 in Brussels

Brussels, 20-22 May 2025 The CHORIZO Project participated at the FOODPathS Festival 2025, celebrated from May 20th to 22nd in Brussels, gathering experts, policymakers, and innovators committed to building sustainable food systems. The FOODPathS...
May 16 2025

CHORIZO Project at Food 4 Future Expo 2025: Innovation towards Zero Food Waste

From May 13 to 15, the Food 4 Future Expo 2025 turned Bilbao into a meeting point for experts and relevant actors in food-tech and sustainability. The event brought together thousands of professionals to explore how innovation can shape the future...
May 12 2025

Capacity Building Programme: School Food Actors session

On Wednesday, May 7, took place the Capacity Building session for School Food Actors, focused on the role of social norms in shaping behaviors related to food waste, particularly in schools. The session agenda included a deep dive into the...
Apr 10 2025

CHORIZO #9 Newsletter is out! Learn How to Apply Social Norms to Reduce Food Waste with Our CHORIZO Capacity Building Programme

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Apr 09 2025

The 7th Webinar of the City Interest Group on Food Waste Prevention: Multi-level Governance for Food Waste Prevention in Cities

On Wednesday, 9th April, the 7th webinar of the City Interest Group (CIG) on Food Waste Prevention brought together cities and experts to explore the importance of multi-level governance in developing effective food waste prevention strategies. The...
Mar 21 2025

CHORIZO #8 Newsletter is out! FLW in households and the role of date marking at the moment of purchasing food

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Mar 06 2025

CHORIZO Project General Assembly in Bologna: Advancing the Fight Against Food Waste

25th – 26th February 2025 Last week, the CHORIZO project consortium gathered at the Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna, in Italy, for its General Assembly. This two-day meeting brought together all project partners to discuss the project...
Dec 24 2024

CHORIZO #7 Newsletter is out! Young peoples’ behaviour towards lunch-packs

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Nov 26 2024

The 6th webinar of the City Interest Group on Food Waste Prevention: The Role of Food Hubs and Shaping Urban Food Waste Prevention Guidance

On Wednesday 20th November, we had the opportunity to learn from the first-hand experiences of Antwerp and Milan in setting up hubs to tackle food waste during the 6th City Interest Group webinar, hosted by ICLEI in the framework of the CHORIZO...
Nov 07 2024

CHORIZO #6 Newsletter is out! Aligning values and actions: Understanding Corporate Food Donation choices in Hungary

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Oct 25 2024

ALIBETOPIAS 2024: 10 years of Innovation

ALIBETOPIAS celebrates its 10th anniversary with a focus on Innovation, Sustainability and Digitalization. This event, organized by the Spanish Food and Drink Federation, together with the Technological Platform Food for Life Spain and with the...
Sep 30 2024

International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste (IDAFLW)

On 29th of September we celebrated the International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste (IDAFLW). During this fifth observance of the IDAFLW, CHORIZO project took the great opportunity to raise awareness to the importance of the Food Lost and...
Sep 28 2024

The European Researchers’ Night

On 27th September 2024 took place the largest science outreach event in Europe. Universities and research institutes across Europe opened their doors and shared their work through presentations, experiments, games, discussions and other interactive...
Jun 17 2024

Let’s reduce consumer food waste! Solutions from the European Consumer Food Waste Forum

Our partners from CHORIZO project joined the public event “Let’s reduce consumer food waste! Solutions from the European Consumer Food Waste Forum” the 5th of June 2024 in Brussels.  The conference had an interactive format, including panel...
Jun 12 2024

The 5th webinar of the City Interest Group on Food Waste Prevention: Tackling food waste in schools

Last Wednesday 12th of June, ICLEI hosted the fifth webinar of the City Interest Group (CIG) on Food Waste Prevention. The session explored the instruments that cities have at their disposal for preventing food waste in schools. The participants...
May 13 2024

CHORIZO project celebrated General Assembly in Oslo

On 6th and 7th of May 2024, the CHORIZO project celebrated with success its General Assembly in Oslo hosted by Strawberry Hotels and led by ILVO, project coordinators. During this two-day meeting all partners shared their main findings on case...
Apr 29 2024

Food 4 Future – Expo FoodTech 2024: Bilbao Foodtech World Summit

From 16 to 18 April 2024, Food 4 Future offered in Bilbao three days of interesting discussions around AI, smart production, sustainability, machine learning and how to optimise production processes to improve competitiveness. Food systems are...
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