A holistic frameWork with Anticounterfeit and inTelligence-based technologieS that will assist food chain stakehOlders in rapidly identifying and preventing the spread of fraudulent practices

WATSON is an €11 million 3-year project that has been funded under the EU’s research and innovation framework, Horizon Europe to combat fraudulent practices in the food supply chain.

Watson’s interdisciplinary consortium of 44 partners across 19 EU and non-EU countries will develop a holistic traceability framework that will integrate data-driven services, intelligence-based toolsets and risk-estimation approaches, enabling food safety authorities to identify and prevent fraudulent activities.

WATSON will rely upon the following digital and intelligence-based technologies:

• Artificial Intelligence (AI)
• Internet of Things (IoT)
• Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT)
•  A suite of novel Spectroscopy-based Technology

The project is organized around 6 agri-food sectors. The proposed framework will be tested in 6 different European countries considering different operational procedures and diverse environments.

• European Union
• Swiss State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation

• European Commission, Horizon Europe

44 project partners from 19 countries (listed in the CORDIS project entry)

• Ejderyan Olivier (Department of Food System Sciences)

• Eppenstein Rennie C. (Department of Livestock Sciences)
• Lapuh Lucija (Department of Food System Sciences)
• Laurenti Cristina (Department of Food System Sciences)
• Stolz Hanna (Department of Food System Sciences)

Projektpartner

• cordis.europa.eu: Project on the CORDIS website

• Animal Housing & Livestock Breeding (Department of Livestock Sciences, FiBL Switzerland)
• Consumers & Food (Department of Food System Sciences, FiBL Switzerland)
• Society & Innovation (Department of Food System Sciences, FiBL Switzerland)