💡 Gathering insights from consumers 💡 The Department of Agriculture and Food Sciences at the University of Bologna (Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna), under the guidance of Prof. Samoggia, is delving into sustainable dietary practices by gathering insights from consumers in our Living Labs. Earlier this month, University of Bologna kicked off their second Living Lab session at Salus Space, where citizens had the opportunity to taste six different products made from alternative proteins. Participants provided valuable feedback on the barriers to and consumer acceptance of these foods, expressing their willingness and motivations to incorporate them into their diets. This session focused on Choice Expansion, emphasizing the importance of increasing the availability and accessibility of sustainable and healthier products, such as alternative protein options, while keeping other choices open. These discussions are crucial for understanding citizens' food choices and needs, as well as for exploring how these choices are made in different food environments and identifying effective mechanisms that support sustainable and healthy diets. The team behind the session — Antonella Samoggia, Francesca Monticone, PhD, Andrea Fantini, Chiara Benussi, Erica Conversano, and Giuseppe Macaione — deeply appreciate the valuable insights and contributions from all participants 🙏 Stay tuned for their next Living Lab session, scheduled for the beginning of March 2025!
LIKE-A-PRO
Research Services
Facilitating sustainable and healthy diets by shifting promising alternative proteins from niche to mainstream.
About us
LIKE-A-PRO is a 13.9€ EU project aiming to facilitate sustainable and healthy diets by mainstreaming alternative proteins and products, making them more available, accessible, and acceptable to all population groups (from children to elderly, vulnerable groups) and everywhere (across Europe, in urban, peri-urban, and rural areas). This will be done by developing 16 new alternative protein products with ingredients from 7 novel and optimized protein sources. The interest of Europeans in alternative proteins is becoming clear and this trend is the perfect ground for the dietary shift towards sustainable and healthy nutrition and food systems, in line with the ambitions of the EU Green Deal, Farm to Fork strategy and EU’s climate goals. The LIKE-A-PRO project (No. 101083961) is funded by the European Union under the topic “HORIZON-CL6-2022-FARM2FORK-01-07”
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- Research Services
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- 11-50 employees
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- Brussels
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- Nonprofit
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- 2022
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📢 Exciting updates from the LIKE-A-PRO project at FoodRevolution 2024! 🌍🍽️ Yesterday, our project coordinator Morena Silvestrini took the stage at the conference's special session on "Projects and Start-up Pitches" to present the goals and progress of LIKE-A-PRO. In addition, Soukaina Hilali from Celabor srl presented a poster on “Optimized Processes for Protein Recovery from Plant-Based and Alternative Sources,” highlighting our work in optimizing and scaling up processes for healthy and sustainable food ingredients from 7 alternative protein sources. And finally, Niccolo Galizzi from Revo Foods, which is one of the food producers involved in LIKE-A-PRO, presented their cutting-edge technology to create 3D-printed salmon filets using sustainable ingredients. 👨🔬
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🔦Check out this new publication on alternative protein food choices. Recognising differences in potential determinants across various alternative protein food (APF) sources is essential for designing interventions aimed at promoting APF uptake. Learn more here👇👇
🚀 New Research Alert! 🌱🍄🐜 Curious about what drives people to choose alternative protein foods (APF) like plant-based, insect-based, or mushroom-derived proteins? Our latest meta-review dives deep into the individual psychosocial factors behind these choices! We explored how capabilities, opportunities, and motivations (COM-B model) along with demographics influence decisions to eat, buy, and accept APFs. Key findings: ✅ Plant-based APF: Influenced by cooking skills, health/environmental benefits, younger age, and higher education. ✅ Insect-based APF: Driven by knowledge, social norms, curiosity, and male gender. Recognizing these differences is key to shaping interventions that boost APF adoption! 🌍 Check out the full study to learn more about how we can make sustainable food choices more appealing. #AlternativeProteins #Sustainability #PlantBased #InsectProtein #FoodInnovation #BehavioralScience LIKE-A-PRO Hanna Zaleśkiewicz, Maria Siwa, Anna Banik, Zofia Szczuka, Ewa Kulis, Francesca Grossi, Polymeros Chrysochou, Bjørn Tore Nystrand, Toula Perrea, Antonella Samoggia, Arlind Xhelili, Athanasios Krystallis & Aleksandra Luszczynska
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🔦Don't miss this interesting webinar, where our project coordinator Morena Silvestrini will be sharing insights from the LIKE-A-PRO project. Check it out here👇
🎤 Introducing our webinar speaker: Dr Morena Silvestrini! 🌍 Webinar Topic: "How Can We Optimise Value Chains to Enhance Business Opportunities for Alternative Proteins?" 📅 Date: October 7th ⏰ Time: 12:00 CET We are delighted to welcome Dr Morena Silvestrini, EU Project Manager at the National Centre for Food Technology and Safety (CNTA) and expert in the development of R&D projects. With a PhD in Chemical Sciences, specialising in electrochemistry and biosensors for health, Dr. Silvestrini brings over 6 years of experience managing European H2020 and HE projects. As the project coordinator of the LIKE-A-PRO project, she is working to transform our food systems by shifting alternative proteins from niche to mainstream, aiming to make our diets more sustainable and healthier. 💡Can European dietary habits be more sustainable? LIKE-A-PRO is investigating alternative protein sources and food products while collaborating with middle food system actors to ensure these alternatives are both accessible and affordable. Don’t miss this opportunity! Register now: https://lnkd.in/dtmWYqU5 #HorizonEurope #ResearchImpactEU #Alternativeproteins #Innovation Teagasc , Department of Food Science, AU FOOD, Università degli Studi di Torino , National Technical University of Athens, Foodscale Hub, Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTÍFICAS, Confagricoltura, Agricolus S.r.l., Wageningen University & Research, Beotanics, PepsiCo, KPAD LTD, #DIGNITYPRIVATECOMPANY, #MooreparkTechnology, #FattoriaSolidaleDelCirceo, #MOLINOPEILASPA, #agribenchmark, Prolupin GmbH, farmB, #AntignanoProdottoTipico, Kerry
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🌱🚜 Last week LIKE-A-PRO took part in the LX sidea societa italiana di economia agraria conference in Anacapri! 🌾📊 This conference is a fantastic platform bringing together academics to address critical challenges in the agricultural sector. With LIKE-A-PRO, we are committed to empowering farmers and agricultural professionals through technology, data-driven insights, and sustainable farming practices. 🎯 LiIKE-A-PRO partners Antonella Samoggia and Francesca Monticone, PhD presented the results of their research providing a business perspective on the protein transition, a core issue for LIKE-A-PRO. A big thank you to SIDEA for this opportunity to contribute to such meaningful conversations. #LikeAPro #SIDEAConference #SIDEA2024 #ProteinTransition
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🌱🥗Alternative proteins instead of traditional animal proteins: why is it worth it and how to encourage it? Last week, Aleksandra Łuszczyńska from Uniwersytet SWPS delivered a lecture on psychological, social, and geographical determinants of alternative protein choices by consumers at the Science Festival 2024 in Warsaw, Poland. The talk was based on #LIKEAPRO results and covered questions like how the acceptance of consuming alternative proteins is in Poland, compared to Norway, Denmark, Germany, or Italy? How and why to convince a friend to try high-protein chips from cricket or mealworms, and a friend to swap a pork burger for a burger with rapeseed and soy protein?
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🚀Today we kicked off the Food Actor Network in LIKE-A-PRO! The network consists of 50 professionals from 18 European countries. They will meet six times in a Transition Arena process during the coming months to co-create future pathways on mainstreaming alternative proteins. 🙏Happy to have all of you on board! Learn more about the Food Actor Network here 👉 https://lnkd.in/dESrTx3K #AlternativeProteins #dietaryshift #sustainability
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Currently, the Collaborating Centre on Sustainable Consumption and Production (CSCP) is coordinating living labs in 11 European countries as part of the LIKE-A-PRO project. The Living Labs bring together European consumers to innovate and co-create insights and solutions for the acceleration and promotion of alternative protein products in the European markets. Together, in the Living Labs, we: 🟢explore food choices and the way how these are made in food environments, capitalising on scoping the main food consumption / behavioural determinants; 🟢co-create the alternative protein products that are being developed in the LIKE A PRO project; and 🟢explore and put forward multi-stakeholder governance mechanisms that could be introduced in the market to support consumers in making better food consumption
🙌🏽 The CSCP has joined ENoLL (European Network of Living Labs) as an Innovation Partner, marking a step forward in the mission to foster collaboration, co-creation, and the development of holistic solutions that address the diverse needs of society. 🔗 Check out the details of this new endeavour: https://lnkd.in/eQ4ADw68 👉🏾 Would you like to engage with us on #livinglabs or other multi-stakeholder engagement formats? Reach out to Arlind Xhelili #sustainablesolutions #sustainability
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The first Week Without Meat (National Kødfri Uge) campagin in Denmark has come to an end. Below are some reflections from our project partner and organiser of the campaign 👇👇
Reflecting on an incredible first National Kødfri Uge: thank you, Denmark! 🌱 We’re excited to look back at Denmark’s first-ever National Kødfri Uge last week! 🇩🇰 After successful campaigns in the Netherlands and Belgium, last week, it was finally time to introduce the Week Without Meat to Denmark for the first time as part of the LIKE-A-PRO project. Some of our highlights: 🥦 As a warm-up, we were present at the Food Festival in Aarhus where with an interactive stand, fun polaroid photos, and a tasty vegan burger cook-off by founder Isabel Boerdam in collaboration with Dyrenes Alliance. A great weekend which inspired thousands of people to join the campaign! 🥗 On Monday 9 September, we kicked off the campaign with an official press launch at Bistro Lupa with powerful speeches by Franciska Rosenkilde and Isabel Boerdam on why the future of food must be plant-focused. Special thanks to Jason Renwick who welcomed us and our guests in his beautiful green Michelin star restuarant! 📻 Our message reached far and wide with over 70 publications in radio, print, and online media, including a two-page spread in the Food Festival’s newspaper that landed on the doormat of more than 445,000 households across Denmark! 🌆 Our iconic National Kødfri Uge banner took an adventurous tour through the city of Copenhagen, popping up in unexpected places and reaching thousands of people. 📱 Our social media platforms were buzzing all week with inspiring content, recipes, and tips for enjoying a more plant-based lifestyle. 🧑💻 We tried to not only inspire consumers to participate, but also create corporate engagement! And with success: many companies - from Copenhagen Metro system HQ to OnlinePOS - participated by offering meat-free lunches to their employees. 🍽️ Denmark’s food scene also embraced the challenge, with restaurants all over the country serving and promoting plant-based dishes that proved just how good meat-free dining can be. This amazing first edition was made possible with the support of our great partners: Agrain by Circular Food Technology, Bonduelle, Unilever, HelloFresh, Uhhmami, Audu - by PlanetDairy, Tempty Foods, Dyrenes Alliance. Moreover, a special thanks to the people who helped make the first National Kødfri Uge a great success: Katja Dahlberg, Isabelle Louisa Geoffroy, Britt Sandvad, Laila Dam, Louise Albeck Larsen Now, no time to sit still ➡️ we continue with fresh energy on the launch of the very first Woche Ohne Fleisch (in Germany) and second edition of the Week Zonder Vlees/Semaine Sans Viande (in Belgium) next month! Stay tuned! #weekwithoutmeat #weekzondervlees #nationalkødfriuge #wocheohnefleisch #LIKEAPRO #sustainability #plantbased
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On 6 September, Hanna Zaleśkiewicz from Uniwersytet SWPS had the opportunity to present LIKE-A-PRO research at the European Health Psychology Society conference. The presentation focused on the psychosocial determinants of consumer behavior and their choices when it comes to alternative proteins. 🧠🍽️ This presentation showcased the results of a comprehensive meta-review, conducted as part of the LIKE-A-PRO. Although, the manuscript is still under review, we're pleased to share some of the insights it offers. 👉We will make sure to share the meta-review as soon as it is published, so stay tuned! #LIKEAPRO #AlternativeProteins #SustainableConsumption
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