Competency Framework
Sustainability
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FOOD SYSTEMS
The ability to analyse the food system,
appraise current and future sustainability
challenges, and develop appropriate
responses using systems approaches.
DATA MANAGEMENT
The ability to develop and use digital tools
with the purpose of accessing, managing,
analysing and interpreting data.
TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT
The ability to use emerging technologies
in (radical or breakthrough)
innovation processes.
COMMUNICATION
The ability to drive interpersonal
communication, and to translate
complex ideas for different audiences.
LEADERSHIP
The ability to be an effective leader,
and to mobilise resources efficiently to
accomplish a goal based on responsible
management practice.
CRITICAL THINKING
The ability to assess facts and evidence to
drive decision-making, including constructive
questioning of the status quo.
PROBLEM SOLVING
The ability to analyse and understand the
problem space, generate new ideas,
assess their validity, and co-create solutions.
The ability to recognise, develop and act on
entrepreneurial opportunities in a range of
organisational settings, and to play an effective
role in new venture formation and growth.
ENTREPRENEURSHIP
INSPIRE
Transform the system
and have an influence that goes
beyond your field and the wider sector.
MASTER
Deliver impact
within your field of
influence and the sector.
PRACTICE
Turn ideas into actions
to the benefit of your
field of influence.
EXPLORE
Lay the foundations
in contributing to
the sector.
to develop innovative responses to address sustainability challenges.
Educate and support others
to appraise current and future challenges to the food system.
Champion systems approaches
to address sustainability challenges in the food system.
Design innovative responses
to address current and future challenges using systems approaches.
Develop strategies
to address sustainability challenges in the food system.
Implement innovative responses
to appraise current and future sustainability challenges.
Analyse the food system
using a range of systems approaches
Recognise how innovations can contribute
to achieving societal impact.
Identify dominant sustainability challenges
for the food system.
Apply basic systems analysis techniques
to describe the food system.
Educate and support others
to use digital tools to support innovations in the food system.
Champion robust data security systems.
Educate and challenge others
to appraise and mitigate unintended consequences of technology use.
Develop strategies
for data acquisition, analysis and manipulation.
Develop and lead the implementation
of robust data security measures.
Develop strategies
to mitigate key unintended consequences of the use
of information technologies.
Appraise the efficacy of different digital tools
and sensing methods to acquire, manage and manipulate data.
Devise
effective data management protocols.
Design
effective actions to mitigate key unintended consequences
of the use of information technologies.
Implement
adequate data security measures.
Implement effective data management protocols.
Recognise the importance
of data security measures.
Identify
key unintended consequences of the use of information technologies.
Educate and support others
to use emerging technologies in
(radical or breakthrough) innovation processes.
Challenge others
to apply technologies to, or draw from, different problem spaces.
Educate and challenge others
to appraise and mitigate unintended
consequences of technology use.
Develop strategies
to mobilise and manage technologies in innovation processes.
Develop and lead the implementation
of new technologies.
Develop strategies
to mitigate key unintended consequences
of the use of emerging technologies.
Devise
adequate IPR management strategies.
Mobilise
appropriate technologies in innovation processes.
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Design
effective actions to mitigate key unintended consequences
of the use of emerging technologies.
Contribute
to the development of new technologies for food system transformation.
Manage
IPRs.
Competently use
appropriate technologies to contribute to food system innovations.
Appraise the relevance
of emerging technologies in a particular work or study context.
Identify
key unintended consequences of the use of emerging technologies.
Recognise the importance
of IPR management.
Champion
effective inclusive stakeholder management.
Demonstrate effective inclusive thought leadership
in and beyond the food system domain.
Identify, engage with and respond
honestly to stakeholder needs.
Develop strategies
to deliver effective inclusive communications approaches.
Translate complex ideas
for different audiences.
Devise effective communication methods
that support organisational strategies.
Engage in honest and inclusive two-way communication
with stakeholders about their concerns.
Adjust messaging
for different audiences.
Identify relevant stakeholders
and their prominent concerns.
Recognise the importance
of inclusive dialogue in food systems transformation.
Implement
basic communication methods.
Create
a vision for strategic change of the food system.
to lead and promote food system transformation.
Educate, influence, persuade and challenge others
Influence, persuade and challenge others
to transform the food system through innovation and entrepreneurship.
Translate a vision
for strategic change into a food system innovation.
towards the implementation of a food system innovation.
Demonstrate leadership
to deliver a food system innovation.
Appraise different strategies
Implement
a food system innovation project
in a particular work or study context.
Demonstrate ownership
of project goals.
to base their decision making on an ethical and sustainable basis.
Challenge others
to critically analyse existing practices to develop sustainable alternatives.
Educate and support others
Critically analyse, interpret and report
data and information to inform ethical decision making.
Challenge existing practices
and knowledge to develop sustainable alternatives.
Collect, analyse, interpret and report
information to develop sustainable solutions to current and future challenges.
Appraise unintended consequences
of any course of action to devise ethical goals.
Collect, analyse and report
information and data to support
the generation of new ideas and approaches.
Recognise the importance
of ethical goals.
Educate and support others
to generate original and sustainable
solutions to address food system challenges.
Champion effective co-creation methodologies
to include a range of relevant voices in the generation of solutions.
Critically appraise
the problem space to analyse the
strategic implications of future choices.
Mobilise effective co-creation methodologies
to generate original and sustainable solutions that include relevant voices.
Appraise the problem space
to identify current and future needs.
Mobilise
effective methodologies to generate new ideas.
Appraise the validity of new ideas
and co-create sustainable solutions.
Analyse relevant aspects
of the problem space to inform creative thought.
Use basic methods
to generate new ideas and to assess their validity.
Contribute
to co-creation processes to develop sustainable solutions.
Guide others
on their entrepreneurial journey to achieve sustainability goals.
Champion relevant insights
into entrepreneurial mindset and practice.
Contribute
to sustainability-oriented entrepreneurial ecosystems.
Create opportunities
for systemic social and environmental value creation.
Devise strategies
to mobilise and leverage resources to create sustainable value.
Design effective actions
to scale societal impact.
Create opportunities
for social and environmental value creation.
Mobilise
resources to create sustainable value for others.
Design and implement
effective actions to deliver impact.
Appraise and articulate
the value of opportunities.
Identify and use
relevant resources to support the creation of
social and environmental value.
Implement
effective actions to support the creation of sustainability impacts.
that goes beyond your field and the wider sector.
Transform the system
and have an influence
INSPIRE
within your field of influence and the sector.
Deliver impact
MASTER
to the benefit of your field of influence.
Turn ideas into actions
PRACTICE
in contributing to the sector.
Lay the foundation
EXPLORE
FOOD SYSTEMS
DATA MANAGEMENT
TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT
COMMUNICATION
LEADERSHIP
CRITICAL THINKING
PROBLEM SOLVING
ENTREPRENEURSHIP
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creating healthier lives through food, achieving a net zero food
to food system transformation.
All competencies are oriented towards these aims to contribute
creating a fully transparent, fair, inclusive and resilient food supply.
system (including the prevention of biodiversity loss), and
is at the core of all competencies. It includes
SUSTAINABILITY
Sustainability
competencies that advance readily available skillsets
and known-how accelerate sustainability transitions.
is a group of key technical
TECHNICAL CAPABILITIES
Technical capabilities
competencies that form the foundation for effective action.
in context-specific ways.
They can be used in a wide range of settings to drive change
is a group of essential transversal
UNDERPINNING CAPABILITIES
Underpinning Capabilities
They support actions that combine systems approaches with a
range of novel technologies to perform food systems transformation.
are about technical expertise.
PERFORMING ACTIVITIES
Performing activities
others to achieve impact. They support actions that foster
collaborations, and engage stakeholders in an honest dialogue.
are about working with and through
INFLUENCING ACTIVITIES
Influencing activities
and challenge established systems and routines
They support actions that generate and appraise solutions,
are conceptual and analytical in nature.
THINKING ACTIVITIES
Thinking activities
It comprises a mindset and key skills to envision, create and
contexts including in ventures, industry, academia, policy and NGO’s
implemen innovative solutions to challenges in a wide range of
is the engine for achieving change.
ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Entrepreneurship