1. create job opportunities/skills for employment for people far from the labour market in handling food surplus for human consumption
2. create systems covering a larger region for effective food surplus collection and redistribution to people in food insecurity
3. process new marketable food products made out of food surplus

and promote the development of these models through supporting policy making.

1. Testing out cooperation, coordination and alignment between food surplus centres and with stakeholders in the food chain for maximum collection, storage, redistribution and processing of food surplus. This will produce benefits for: producers, industry and retailers in the food chain as they have less food loss. A training programme for people in the food surplus indrustry will developed and spread through a train the trainer approach. 
2. Develop socio-economic business models based on the testing and pilots, supplemented with experiences of other relevant initiatives to promote a food surplus industry and create jobs for people far from the labour market. Opportunities and barriers in policy making regarding food surplus use and social employment will be examined on national and European level to be able to formulate recommendations to promote this new sector.

The whole region struggles with the same issues: large amounts of food surplus and a large proportion of the unemployed are long-term unemployed. There are small scale projects in each area dealing with surplus for human consumption and working with/for social-economically vulnerable people.
We want to find out if it is possible to create a new sector, by working together to test out models of using food not fit to be sold on the regular market, to be processed for a second shelf life. To do so, scale to convince the food sector as well as enough critical mass to have influence on the European policy making is needed. We want to find out what policy frame work and legislation should be adopted on European and national level to promote efficient and effective food surplus services that create (pathways to) employment. The 2 Seas area, where distances are not too big, makes it possible to work closely together on this purpose.