Description: The experimental proposal concerns the provision of two digital tools: the Circular Market app and an impact evaluation and monitoring tool. These tools are designed to engage in dialogue and support local communities as they implement the recommendations published in Food Atlas and the Food Metric Report.

DistretTO “Circular Living Lab” aims to systematize what the City of Turin has already done on the themes of food, circularity, and sustainability, by providing the two tools mentioned above. 

Context: DistretTO Circular Living Lab is one of the winning proposals of the City of Turin Public Notice on the topic of Circular Food. The aim is to find organisations with which to co-develop and test, under real conditions, innovative solutions in the context of the circular economy linked to production, distribution and marketing of food.

This activity is planned in two European projects: FUSILLI, which aims to promote innovative circular business models in the food sector, and SME4GREEN, which supports companies in transitioning to technologically and environmentally-sustainable business models. The current challenge of the circular economy applied to food is to revolutionize the production model starting with proper management of natural capital (that is linked to human, cultural and economic capital), respecting planetary boundaries and offering equitable space within civil society.