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Hereunder the names of the Projects which will be supported
by Prioritalia's Mentors
THE PROJECTS
In Milan
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I tech care
Malanda Fgne
In Turin
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L’Alveare che dice sì
OrtiAlti
Panacea
In Benevento
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Bioactive food packaging from Tomato
pomace
October 2015
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I tech care
Italy - Milano
I tech care is a project of ProXXIma which offers an innovative approach to
nutrition education and the promotion of health. It consists of the digital
application of a method centred on the involvement of children through a series
of creative and social activities, using on -line digital content (visible on
www.miprendocura.it) that encourages them to pass from digital to practical
activities, strengthening and nourishing the relationship with significant adults
(teachers and parents).
MALANDA FGNE “Food security and sustanaible transformation“
Italy - Senegal - Milano
The purpose of the project is to contribute to development of sustainable, local
agricultural development, in Foundiougne (Fatick region). The project, also,
would consolidate the partnership and cooperation between Alliance
SENEGALITALIA, SOLIDARITY & INTEGRATION (Asisi), the Council for Agricultural
Research and Analysis of the Agrarian Economy (in Milan).
Specific object of the project is to contribute to the development of supply
chain, storage and marketing of local products from fishing and agriculture.
Furthermore the project wants to create an educational program on local
techniques, agricultural knowledge. The "eradicating hunger and extreme
poverty" and the "environmental sustainability " are two important topics of the
project. Special emphasis will be given to processing technologies , and to using
of alternative energy, in agreement with the concepts of sustainable and ecofriendly agriculture (Solar power). The management of microbiological risks
requires the adoption of technologically flexible systems, with greater marks up
of safety. The types of transformation are: high quality concentrated ( flesh
tomatoes , jams , etc), solar dried (fruits, herbs, spices, etc), smoked (fish, etc..).
The different types of product to be realized by applying ,the main index of
operative regulations in the sector and by considering the ability to represent
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operating and reproducible models . Control Structure will became a limited
liability company , in order to create and develop a network of production to
operate better in terms of : Transport, Storage, Marketing.
It will be extremely important:
Creating and managing predominantly female cooperatives for the production
and marketing of products
Being a regional and national staffing company for : 1. Regulation 2. Technical
assistance 3. Personal training 4. Quality branding.
L' Alveare che dice Si!
Italy - Torino
“L’Alveare che dice si” ( www.alvearechedciesi.it ) aims to create an innovative
and cooperative system in order to develop a sustainable food network (Km
zero) at the national level. The aim of the project is to combine the latest
information and communication technologies (Internet, online payments,
geolocation...) with a sharing socioeconomic model , in order to implement food
chain. The core of: Alveare che dice si is a central structure, with its web
platform providing to link consumers to producers. The strength of the project is
its sharing economic model based on creating a sense of community
(Alveari=Beehives): local entities which gather a number of potential consumers
and producers, created and managed by a private citizen who decides to be
involved in the project . The Idea: an individual decides to open and to manage a
hive. After the agreement with the top management, the new member provide
to find:
producers around 150 km;
consumers;
an effluent diffusion channel;
Product distributions take place directly on the website every week
(maximum 2).
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This model allows to separate the roles of the different actors in order to
emphasize their skills :
a central authority charged with the communication;
a manager with a marketing role, and he is responsible for creating, developing
the community and promoting products (by using email, Facebook page , etc. );
producers would be focus only on production.
ORTIALTI. Farm your rooftop. Enjoy sharing!
Italy - Torino
OrtiAlti is a “sharing project” with the aim to establish and to manage
community gardens on the building roofs (schools, libraries, apartment
buildings, office buildings, production buildings, supermarkets), through the
direct involvement of the local community. The strength is in the communicative
dimension and in the real effectiveness of the idea which combines
environmental benefits - produced by green roofs in the urban environment due
to their technological stratigraphy (biodiversity, building efficiency, reduction of
C02 emissions and, rain water management) - with the social, productive and
educational dimension of vegetable gardens (self-production of fresh
vegetables, mutual exchange of products, sustainable and consumption
education, recycling waste, creation of a community space).
Panacea
Italy - Torino
“La Filiera della farina di Stupinigi” aims to produce high quality bread, by using
culture yeast and wheat flour cops in the fields near Stupinigi. The project is
working in partnership with: Coldiretti Torino, Stupinigi fertile, Associazione
Stupinigi é, Articolo 4 and some local farmers.
We started from seed of varieties of wheat (good for biscuits and bread), low in
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gluten to get to the bread. It was also done a parallel trial: the cultivation over
one hectare of old varieties of wheat, in particular Terminillo and Autonomia.
The technical department of Coldiretti Torino and the chemical laboratory of the
Chamber of Commerce of Turin have identified the most suitable land in
Stupinigi and have written a technical regulation for cereal production.
The wheat will be delivered to the mill Roccati, Candia Canavese, in June 2015;
there it will stone milled. They will produced different types of flour to produce
sourdough bread and that will be used by the bakery Panacea, the cooperative
Articol 4. Some farmers with land in the park Stupinigi joined this experimental
project: Michele Piovano from Nichelino; Maria Siccardi from Nichelino; Bertola
brothers from Candiolo; Daniela e Giuseppe Petiti from Candiolo; Ornella
Dabbene from Cascina le Piniere from Candiolo; Giuseppe Dabbene from
Candiolo; the azienda agricola San Martino from Orbassano; Enrico Avatane
from Nichelino; Paolo Gilardi from cascina Gorgia from Orbassano.
The project is very important for two social and economic aspects:
The proximity farming can feed the city, the wheat is produced a few
kilometers from the city and in a protected area;
all participants in the chain of production of the bread feel personally
responsible for the quality of the product .
Bioactive food packaging from Tomato pomace
Italy - Calabria
Million of tons of tomatoes are annually processed for the making of products as
sauces, ketchup and juices, with consequent quantity of tomato pomace and
peel (mesocarp) as waste of the industrial processes. Over the 50% of the waste
of tomato are fibers that, for definition, include cellulose, emicellulose, lignin
and pectine. Besides the by-products of the supply chain of the tomato contain
respectable quantities of antioxidants, especially lycopene (over 85% of the
total). This carotenoid is broadly used as food additive, dye and antioxidant in
food processing. The idea of this project is born to plan, to research and to
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develop the creation of a papery food functional “bio”-active packaging (a
packaging in which the subsidiary constitutive elements in the material of
packing have deliberately been included for strengthening the performance of
itself) obtained entirely from fibers coming from the waste of food processing.
The bioactive action would result from the presence of the antioxidant inside the
packaging. It is known that the drawn out antioxidants are sensitive to the action
of the oxygen, of the light and of the temperature. The selected extraction of
lycopene in this idea decreases notably the sensibility of the antioxidant thanks
to an integral extraction of the chromoplasts, natural cellular place where the
lycopene is present. This procedure improves the resistance of the molecule and
it doesn't use organic solvents, whose residual could notch the quality of the
final product. Any material that stays in contact with the food stuff has rigid
rules to follow, indicated in the Regulation UE n.1935/2004 and n. 2023/2006.
For such reason it would be desirable an eco-friendly extraction abreast of the
same idea of the project. Besides, this process includes also an enzymatic step
that reduces the 8-10% lycopene loss (w / w, on dried product). The idea of the
project bases itself also on the extraction of cellulose in nanocrystalls with a
scientific method published in 2015. This choice has attracted notable interest
for its extraordinary elastic form of 150 GPa and for its lower coefficient of axial
thermal expansion 10-7 K-1. Besides some exclusive physical characteristics in
nanometric dimensions are present: abundant superficial hydroxyls, elevated
specific surfaces and chemical reactivity that they make highly desirable
nanocellulose for the construction of materials of natural origin. The
nanocellulose can be also obtained from other sources, for example other
agricultural by-products. The cooperation among national productive realities,
through the development and the amplification of this project, would create a
strong social impact in employment level and in a strong signal of ecosustainability and recycling of valid and exploitable raw materials for the
creation of a new packaging. The idea could reduce the consumption of the
principal raw material traditionally used to the creation of a primary food papery
packaging.
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