Berlin policy consultancy specialising in food safety, insect protein value chains, and circular economy market analysis for EU research consortia.
Civic Consulting GmbH is a Berlin-based policy and market research consultancy that brings regulatory, consumer, and market analysis expertise into EU research consortia. Their work spans food safety and outbreak response systems (COMPARE project) and the regulatory and market dimensions of sustainable novel food value chains (SUSINCHAIN). As a private company rather than a university or research institute, they likely contribute stakeholder analysis, policy assessment, impact evaluation, and dissemination strategy — the kinds of tasks that bridge scientific findings and real-world uptake. Their involvement in both health surveillance and sustainable food systems suggests a consulting practice positioned at the intersection of food policy, public health, and market development.
Participated in COMPARE (2014–2019), a platform for collaborative detection and analysis of re-emerging and foodborne outbreaks, bringing analytical or policy expertise to a major health-food safety initiative.
Contributed to SUSINCHAIN (2019–2023), focused on sustainable insect chains covering protein transition, bio-conversion, and circular economy principles across the full insect value chain.
SUSINCHAIN keywords explicitly include circular economy and bio-conversion, indicating engagement with resource-loop thinking applied to alternative protein production.
As a private consultancy (not a university or lab), their cross-project role across both health surveillance and novel foods most likely centres on policy frameworks, market assessments, or consumer acceptance research.
In their first H2020 project (COMPARE, starting 2014), Civic Consulting worked in the health and food-safety domain — specifically around collaborative outbreak detection platforms — with no thematic keywords attached to their contribution, suggesting a support or analytical role within a large technical consortium. By their second project (SUSINCHAIN, starting 2019), the focus shifted sharply toward sustainable food production, with a dense cluster of keywords around protein transition, insect protein, and circular economy. This represents a move from reactive food safety (outbreak response) toward proactive sustainable food systems, tracking a broader EU policy shift toward green protein and circular bioeconomy.
They appear to be moving toward the sustainable food transition space — alternative proteins, circular bioeconomy, novel food regulation — which is an area of growing EU policy and funding attention through 2030.
Civic Consulting has never led an H2020 project — they participate exclusively as a consortium partner, which is consistent with a consultancy providing specialist support rather than scientific coordination. Their 63 unique partners across just 2 projects indicates they work within very large, multi-stakeholder consortia (averaging roughly 31 partners per project), typical of pan-European IA and RIA projects. This suggests they are comfortable operating in complex, multi-actor environments but should not be expected to take on project management or scientific leadership roles.
Despite only two projects, Civic Consulting has built a network of 63 unique consortium partners across 16 countries, indicating exposure to a broad, international research and industry ecosystem. Their Berlin base and European project footprint suggest a primarily European network without a strong regional concentration.
Civic Consulting occupies a relatively rare position in EU research consortia: a private policy and market consultancy (not an academic group or NGO) that contributes to both health surveillance and sustainable food innovation projects. For consortium builders, this means they can fill the policy analysis, market assessment, or stakeholder engagement slots that scientific partners typically cannot cover themselves. Their experience across two distinct food-adjacent domains (outbreak management and novel proteins) gives them a cross-cutting perspective on how emerging food systems interact with regulatory and market realities.
