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OPENAGRI New Skills for new Jobs in Peri-urban Agriculture - Milano Geoportale
OPENAGRI
New Skills for new Jobs in
 Peri-urban Agriculture
OPENAGRI New Skills for new Jobs in Peri-urban Agriculture - Milano Geoportale
THE UIA CALL - URBAN INNOVATIVE ACTIONS

   Is an Initiative of the European Union that provides urban areas
    throughout Europe with resources to test new and unproven
                  solutions to address urban challenges

It is promoted by DG Regio and financed through the European Fund
for Regional Development (FESR 2014-2020)

                       Total budget: 372 million €

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OPENAGRI New Skills for new Jobs in Peri-urban Agriculture - Milano Geoportale
UIA FIRST CALL: 17 PROJECTS APPROVED
             (378 PROPOSALS SUBMITTED),
             4 STRATEGIC CHALLENGES

                                    ANTWERP   GOTHENBURG
   LILLE             MILANO
                                    BOLOGNA   VILEDECANS
BARCELLONA           BILBAO
                                    VIENNA      PARIS
BIRMINGHAM          ROTTERDAM
                                    UTRECHT
  TORINO             MADRID
 POZZUOLI
 NANTES

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OPENAGRI New Skills for new Jobs in Peri-urban Agriculture - Milano Geoportale
CITY OF MILAN’S PROJECT
        OPENAGRI
        NEW SKILLS FOR NEW JOBS
        IN PERIURBAN AGRICULTURE

                                      
Urban Planning and Agriculture   Labour Policies

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OPENAGRI New Skills for new Jobs in Peri-urban Agriculture - Milano Geoportale
Milan, «rural metropolis»
                                              Agricultural
                    Population       Area
                                                 land
                   (inhabitants)   (sq. km)
                                               (sq. km)
                                                   27
      Milan         1.316.000        182         (15%)

   Greater Milan                                  652
   (Metropolitan    3.869.000       1.575        (41%)
      area)

        Agrifood economy at national level:
            + 40% in 7 years (Nomisma)

Environmental and cultural implications linked to
     the "magnetic pull" back to agriculture.
OPENAGRI New Skills for new Jobs in Peri-urban Agriculture - Milano Geoportale
CITY OF MILAN & the INNOVATION IN AGRI-FOOD SECTOR:
the «road map» (1/2)

2011: Creation of the DAM Consortium
(Agricultural District of Milan)

Since 2012: Guidelines and open calls for farmers’
markets, ethical purchasing groups (community supported
agriculture), shared gardens and vegetable gardens

Since 2012: Introduction of the Plan for the conservation of
abandoned, rural, dismissed farmsteads
(16 farmsteads)

2013: «Milan as a rural metropolis»: Agreement signed
amongs the former Province of Milan, Lombardy Region
and Consorzio DAM for a common strategy on the urban-
rural development www.agricity.it
OPENAGRI New Skills for new Jobs in Peri-urban Agriculture - Milano Geoportale
CITY OF MILAN & the INNOVATION IN AGRI-FOOD SECTOR:
the «road map» (2/2)

Since 2013: Alimenta2Talent program supports
innovative start-ups in the agrifood sector and
life sciences sector

2015: Publication of the Food Policy Guidelines
2015-2020 (Milan’s City Council) and of the
Milan Urban Food Policy Pact (agreed by 90
cities worldwide)

2017-2019: OpenAgri (Urban Innovative
Actions, DG Regio) awarded

May 2017: first edition of the Food City week
OPENAGRI New Skills for new Jobs in Peri-urban Agriculture - Milano Geoportale
Milan, italian hub for social
 innovation and startups
OPENAGRI New Skills for new Jobs in Peri-urban Agriculture - Milano Geoportale
The need to find new approaches to
         addressing social challenges….

28,6% the Youth Unemployment Rate (14-24) in Milan

17,6% NEETs - Not (engaged) in Education,
Employment or Training (15-29) in the metropolitan area

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OPENAGRI New Skills for new Jobs in Peri-urban Agriculture - Milano Geoportale
PROPOSED SOLUTION

                                            SOCIAL
                                          INCLUSION

 A OPEN INNOVATION HUB on Periurban agriculture
as a LIVING LAB for promoting open innovation on the
      different dimension of the policy challenge
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A CONNECTION POINT BETWEEN THE URBAN AREA AND THE
 PARCO AGRICOLO SUD (SOUTHERN AGRICULTURAL PARK)

                                      CASCINA
                                      NOSEDO

              AN AREA-BASED PROJECT         .11
… FEW HUNDREDS METERS AWAY FROM THE UNDERGROUND STATION

                CASCINA
                NOSEDO

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… A SETTLEMENT THAT NEEDS CARE
OPENAGRI

 INNOVATION     NEW SKILLS FOR
                                    SOCIAL
DEVELOPMENT     THE AGRI-FOOD
                                  INCLUSION
                 SUPPLY CHAIN

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     A SUSTAINABLE – OPEN – INTEGRATED
              URBAN APPROACH
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THE APPROACH
              SUSTAINABLE: peri-urban agriculture can
              play in achieving sustainable cities.

 INNOVATION    NEW SKILLS FOR
                                                     SOCIAL
DEVELOPMENT      THE  AGRI-OOD
              OPEN: A OPEN INNOVATION HUB              on
                                                  INCLUSION
                 SUPPLY CHAIN
              Periurban agriculture as a living lab for promoting
              open innovation on the different dimension of the
              policy challenge

              INTEGRATED: FOOD can be seen as an
              emergent multidimensional policy challenge
              (ecological, social and public health, economics,
              spatial and city planning)
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MACRO ACTIVITIES OF THE PROJECT

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INVESTMENT

     RURAL FARMSTEAD NOSEDO
     already included in the Municipality Plan for
     recovering the net of rural farmsteads

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SKILL, TRAINING AND STARTUP BUSINESS

         INNOVATIVE MODEL IN THE PERIURBAN
         AGRICULTURE FIELD
         •   accelleration programs for innovative ideas and
             projects
         •   experimentation of innovative tools for the transfer and
             certification of non formal competences
         •   research and development
         •   inclusion and networks
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RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT

          A

      • ANALISYS of critical situations (environmental, social,
        economical)
      • Identification/recognition of the NEEDS AND NEW
        COMPETENCES that are useful/needed to restart the
        peri-urban agriculture in a sustainable way
      • Evaluation of the IMPACTS of activities/plans .19
PILOTS:
INNOVATION OF PRODUCTS AND PROCESSES

           A

        • New products and new tecnologies for agricultural
          production based on AQUAPONIC SYSTEM
        • A “OFFICUCINA” for transformation and processing of
          food
        • New LOGISTIC SOLUTIONS for last mile transportation
          and waste management

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SOCIAL LAB

         A

      NEW SYNERGIES among the existing territorial networks
      and the Open Innovation Hub in order to include and
      integrate the most fragile categories of population

      COMMUNITY’S AGRICULTURE, and education aimed to
      improve the knowledge on agriculture

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SPAZI                     SPAZI PER
    CAPACITY
                                  COWORKING                 EVENTI TEMATICI
    BUILDING
                                      per startup e         per momenti di incontro e
   promozione di                                            confronto (es. hackaton,
    cambiamenti                       imprenditori
                                  operanti nel settore           innovation lab,)
      culturali e
   ibridazione tra                    alimentare e
  ricerca, imprese                  agricolo con sale
      agricole e                   riunioni attrezzate
   agroalimentari,                  e servizi annessi
 mondo cooperativo                                            RISTORANTI E
  e non profit, PA                                            SPAZIO EVENTI
                                                             per momenti di incontro,
                          OPEN                               di cultura e di scambio.
                          ANGRI                                 Area kids e spazio
                                                            famiglie per l’integrazione
                                                                  con il territorio
  R&D/THINK
    TANK
    su tematiche a            LABORATORIO                    INCUBAZIONE
valore ambientale e           Offi-cucina; Centro di      sviluppo di nuove imprese
    sociale, sia su           analisi e laboratorio      capaci di rafforzare la filiera
     committenza                di prototipazione          alimentare e di proporre
     privata che in                                                soluzioni
collaborazione con
 i centri universitari   UN LUOGO ACCESSIBILE, MULTIFUNZIONALE
 dell’area milanese
                                 APERTO ALLO SCAMBIO
A STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP

CITY OF MILAN (lead
partner) + 15 PARTNERS
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF MILAN; MILAN POLYTECHNIC FOUNDATION; PTP SCIENCE
AND TECHNOLOGY PARK
 UNIVERSITY OF MILAN – FACULTY OF AGRICULTURE(UNIMI)
 POLYTECHNIC OF MILAN (POLIMI)
 AVANZI, S.R.L.
 CINECA
 FUTURE FOOD INSTITUTE TRUST (FFI)
 IMPATTO ZERO, S.R.L.
 LA STRADA, SOCIAL COOPERATIVE
 SUNUGAL ASSOCIATION
 POLIEDRA
 IFOA – TRAINING INSTITUTE FOR ENTERPRISES OPERATORS
 MARE IMPRESA SOCIALE, S.R.L.
 FOOD PARTNERS, S.R.L.                                      .23
OPEN PUBLIC CALL IN TWO PHASES

Selection of projects and innovative ideas to be developed within a testing
laboratory aimed at co-design an integrated model of intervention that
combines objectives of innovation and creation of new entrepreneurship
in the agri-food sector in Milan

                    NOSEDO
                    FARM

      33 Hectares
      public agricultural land

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WHAT THE CITY OF MILAN OFFER

                  Free temporary use of 33 hectares of
                  agricultural land around Cascina Nosedo

                  An extensive program of acceleration and pre-
                  incubation activities, advanced training,
                  mentorship and strategic networking, depending
                  on the characteristics and the maturation of
                  individual projects.

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TIMELINE:
            SEPT 2017: PHASE 1: 50 PROJECT PROPOSALS
            OCT 2017: PHASE 1: SELECTION OF 27 PROJECT
            PROPOSAL TO PHASE 2
            NOV 17: PHASE 2: workshop with the 27 proposals admitted to
            phase 2 of the call. The candidates had the opportunity to describe
            their proposals during a public pitch, evaluate possible synergies
            between projects and receive suggestions for the drafting of the in-
            depth design documentation for phase 2

            DEC 2017: PHASE 2: 18           projects admitted to the final
            phase.
            JAN 2018: workshop with project designers and OpenAgri
            partners.

            MAR 2018: launch of training, acceleration and pre-
            incubation activities by the partners

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WHO

18 PROJECTS and 3 THEMATIC CLUSTERS OF PROJECTS:
 new productions and agro-systemic services (5 projects),
 technological innovation in the agri-food chain (8 projects),
 sharing economy and social innovation (5 projects)

 13 aspiring new entrepreneurs,
 3 already established companies
 2 non-profit organizations and associations.
6 projects involving vulnerable population

       Land request:                          33 hectares
       PHASE 1: 100 ha                        assigned at
       PHASE 2: 60 ha                         the final stage
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INCUBATION AND ACCELERATION PROGRAMME
 18X30 OpenAgri Lab

                PHASE 0                   PHASE 1                 PHASE 2                 PHASE 3
WHAT       TERRITORIAL             PRE-INCUBATION           CAMPUS                   INCUBATION
           ADAPTION                                                                  AND TRAINING
WHEN       May – Dec 2018          Apr – Jun 2018           Sept – Nov 2018          Oct – Dic 2018
WHO        Polytechnic Of Milan    Avanzi srl + MakeACube   Chamber of Commerce      Formaper (inhouse of
           +                                                of Milan                 Chamber of
           University of Milan +                                                     Commerce)
           Social Lab
WHAT (2)   Territorial context     Workshops for:           Interlocution with       Building the
           workshop                targeting, value         possible supply chain    business model,
                                   proposition, idea        partners interested in   product and
           18x30 Co-designed       validation.              open innovation.         service testing,
           Masterplan                                       Match-making             operational
                                                            actions between          strategy and
                                                            supply and demand.       market access.

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18X30 OpenAgri Lab PROJECTS

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PROJECTS EXAMPLES
Agro-system producon and services Projects

                    “Retro-Innovation” project: innovation of the bread
  Narrare il Pane   supply chain inthe local area. Cultivation of ancient
                    cereals and storytelling activities of “bread of the past”.
                    Active participation of target citizen.

                    Multiplication of quality seeds with biological system,
                    maintance and cosnervation of different varities from
    Scarabeo
                    organic agriculture, facilitating their use by other
                    agricultural companies.

                    Job placement of migrant people, involved in: World
     Io-Porto       garden cultivation, Urban gardens with “Pick your own”
                    model. Local delivery managed by migrants.

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PROJECTS EXAMPLES
Technological Innovation Projects

      AlgAria
                        Innovative plant to produce “Spirulina” seaweeds
                        (defined by FAO as food of the future). The plant
                        recovers heat from bio processes from organic waste.

                        Promotion of technological innovation in the field of
                        remotely piloted aeronautical transport. Application of
       ASTRA
                        drones in precision agriculture (Agronomic analysis and
                        technical data maps).

                        Precision agriculture project of edible and aromatic
Smart Agriculture for   flowers, using smart agriculture to optimize production.
      Flowers           Organoleptic awareness of the flowers. Direct sell to
                        restaurants/markets/citizen.
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PROJECTS EXAMPLES
Social Innovation and Sharing Economy Projects

                         Creation of a “Permanent regerenative inclusion area”
Sinergie AgriCulturali   to harmonise human activities with natural processes.
    in Vettabbia         Experimentation of synergical agricultural between
                         existing agroforesty and plants with shorter seasonal
                         cycles.

                         Social integration of people affected of autism,
 Lavoro e Vita oltre     overcoming the care approach and aiming at the
     l’autismo           generation of qualified human resources.

                         Offer of seasonal flowers purchased from local
                         producers. Delivery to home/office though e-
    FioreUrbano
                         commerce weekly /15days /monthly subscription.

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THE BENEFITS FOR MILAN
       • Some of the goals set by the Food Policy of
         the City of Milan will find concrete
         opportunities for development
       • Milan will strengthen its international
         position in the field of agri-food policies
       • Another farmstead will be renewed and
         brought back to the city
       • Milan and its surroundings will benefit from
         a new integrated HUB that will offer services
         to enterprises, training and research, food
         culture, social relationships.

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THANK YOU !

rossana.torri@comune.milano.it
andrea.patrucco@comune.milano.it

http://www.uia-initiative.eu/en/city/milan

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