FOOD INNOVATION NETWORK EUROPE
In the Food Innovation Network Europe (FINE), European food clusters are combining their efforts to make the European food sector more competitive through innovation and cooperation.
The aim of the FINE network is to enhance the investment in Research and Technological Development (RTD) and to strengthen the cooperation within and between food clusters.
Bringing the Benefits of Research to AgroFood SMEs of the Regions of Central Macedonia, Puglia and Pazardjik.
The overarching objective of RAF- REGIONS is to increase the overall capacity of the Regions of Central Macedonia (Greece), Puglia (Italy) and Pazardjik (Bulgaria) in enhancing science and technology based economic development, focusing on the AgroFood Sector.
www.rafregions.eu
AGroFOod clusters platform with common long-term Research and Innovation Strategy towards Economic growth and prosperity.
The overall objective of AGFORISE Project is to create a common dialogue platform and a joint action plan among the Agrofood clusters that will maximise capacity for research and benefit from research infrastructure through complementariness and synergy, so as to contribute for sustainable development, prosperity, economic growth and global competitiveness of the regions.
www.agforise.eu
AFRESH – Countering diet-related diseases through competitive regional food and physical activity clusters – clusters platform with common long-term Research and Innovation Strategy towards Economic growth and prosperity.
AFRESH aims at developing a research agenda for reducing diet- and physical inactivity-related (chronic) diseases, such as diabetes, obesity, cardiovascular diseases and various types of cancer, by developing innovative products and services within the field of nutrition and physical activity. Instrumental for this is collaboration on an EU wide platform for new research and innovation in the combined field of healthy food and physical activity.
website: www.afresh-project.eu
To contribute to the realization of the full research potential of the enlarged European Union by unlocking and developing existing research potential in one of the convergence regions – the Baltic.
Long-term objectives of the project:
To stimulate realization of full research potential of the enlarged European Union by unlocking and developing existing research potential in one of the convergence regions – Baltic.
www.sigra.lv/baltfoodqual
Improving the scientific and technological research capacity of food institute on safety and technology food packaging.
TUBITAK Marmara Research Center (MRC) Food Institute (FI) in Turkey aims to become one of the leading food science and technology institutes in the EU. In order to achieve its aim FI has analysed its weak points, and identified food packaging technologies as one of them.
www.safetechnopack.org
Balkan vegetable research centre for transfer of European knowledge, research and practice
THE GENERAL OBJECTIVE of the project is to revive and reinforce the Maritsa Vegetable Crops Research Institute (VCRI) to become a leading horticultural research centre in the Balkan region disseminating information on the recent achievements in the European Research Area (ERA) in this scientific field.
www.balkanvegetables.eu
Reinforcing research potential in the Laboratory for Chemical Contaminants at the Faculty of Technology towards the establishment of the Centre of Excellence in Food Safety and Emerging Risks.
CEFSER is the FP7 project dedicated to the reinforcement of research capacities at the Laboratory for Chemical Contaminants in Food and the Environment (LabCHEMCONT) at the Faculty of Technology, University of Novi Sad, Serbia, in order to become a unique Western Balkan Country (WBC) Centre of Excellence in Food Safety and Emerging Risks.
Food and feed LAboratory of Varied and OUtstanding Research in Estonia
Joining forces, increasing collaboration, transferring research results to practice and making a maximum use of research potential are cornerstones of the European Research Area. Food and Feed quality and safety is a crucial topic for consumers’ health today. A high quantity of means and competencies are concentrated on this issue.
AgriSciMont - Fostering a Science-based Development of a sustainable Montenegrin Agriculture
The AgriSciMont project aims at strengthening the Biotechnical Faculty's in Podgorica already excellent research capacity through technological enhancement of human resources, partnership and a reorganisation around 3 interdisciplinary research areas (food and feed safety, agro biodiversity conservation and agro-analyses) to converge towards excellence on “Fostering a Science-based Development of a Sustainable Montenegrin Agriculture”.
http://www.agriscimont.me/gallery.php
The Centre for FEED AND ANIMAL PRODUCTS (FAP)
An organizational unit within the Institute for Food Technology (FINS) at the University of Novi Sad.
The only scientific- research unit specializing in a wide range of issues related to feed technology in Serbia. Furthermore there is no similar organization in the former-Yugoslavia Republics, other Western Balkan countries (WBC) and Member States (MS) in the region. FAP is well positioned in Serbia and in the region, but seeks recognition as an equal partner in Europe as a whole.
www.feed-to-food.uns.ac.rs
Western Balkan Countries produce authentic healthy agricultural products, for example fruits, wine and herbal teas.
Local research institutes can help to make better use of health aspects of these foods when promoting the products and promoting the agricultural resources of authentic foods in the region in general.
For this, more research has to be done on the health promoting food constituents and the capacity to do this research has to be increased. In the CHROMLAB-ANTIOXIDANT project, the human and material capacity of three laboratories in the region for chemical characterization of the antioxidant compounds in food is increased.
chromlab.pmf.ukim.edu.mk
Evaluation of the Research Capacity and development of a strategy for further growth in chemistry in general an in food science in particular.
The Institute of Chemistry at the Faculty of Sciences and Mathematics, University Ss. Cyril and Methodius has international recognition and visibility by publishing the results of research in scientific journals and collaboration with research groups from European universities.
It is nominated as a potential centre of excellence by the Ministry of Education and Science of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.
www.chemistryfood.pmf.ukim.edu.mk
North Portugal - Galicia food-processing innovation and technological development network
The aim of REAL is to elaborate a combined innovation and development strategy between Galicia and the North of Portugal, which involves the productive sector and integrates the existing capacities, allowing to prepare a socioeconomic area to answer nowadays challenges, and positioning profitably in the EU food-processing sector.
Reinforcement of the Faculty of Chemistry, University of Belgrade, towards becoming a Center of Excellence in the region of WB for Molecular Biotechnology and Food research
The main objective of the project is to build the research capacity of the FCUB in the area of food research and molecular biotechnology to a level of excellence similar to that observed in the EU and to make research at FCUB better coordinated, efficient, innovative and attractive to the best of scientists, and hence, establish better opportunity for integration into the ERA..
Website: http://www.fcub-era.rs
Coordinator: Dr Tanja Ćirković Veličković, associate professor
Contact: tcirkov@chem.bg.ac.rs
The Baltic Sea Region Food Cluster: Innovation and Competitiveness in Action
The food industry has developed into a highly competitive and strong industrial sector within the Baltic Sea Region (BSR). The idea is networking among the business and scientific communities in the food industry.
The overall aim of this project is to foster innovations and to take the food industry to the next level. The baltfood project will bring business and science closer together to meet the challenges of the future.
Website: www.baltfood.org
The foodRegio initiative was launched in the Lübeck region by companies and organizations from within the Schleswig-Holstein food industry.
Our goal is to use joint projects to make the situation for the food industry in the North even more commercially attractive, both for those who have already chosen this as their optimal location and for those are still looking.
Website: www.foodregio.de
The general objective of the Bioactive Plant Foods Network is to contribute to the production of bioactive products (food, dietary supplement) with a proven health benefit in fields such as health prevention and medical regeneration.
Preventive impacts shall be achieved for persons, who suffer from diabetes, metabolic syndrome and chronic diseases. The medical regeneration aims to achieve the auxiliary health effects of these ingredients, the regeneration of cells, cell assemblies and organs.
contact: welck@steinbeis-europa.de
website: www.netzwerk-bpl.de
FOOD4GOOD cluster gathers mainly production companies with a technologically advanced and modern machine park
The cluster main goals are: Establishment of the common production and trade strategy; research on functional food; Designing and launching traditional food with modified ingredients; Registration of new nutritional statements; Popularising of new and traditional products of modified ingredients; Cooperation with foreign clusters
Website: www.food4good.pl
Contact: kontakt@food4good.pl
Centre of innovation and technology of packaging food products- European Competence Agreement is Cooperation association, which works for the benefit of connected participants: enterprises, research units and business environment institutions.
The main aims of project are initiating and implementing pro-innovation actions in creating a new standard of raw materials and food product flow in the industry chain, knowledge transfer and technology, multiple feedback in the process of packaging food products, combined with IT system, automatic identification technologies and optimize usage of resources.
contact: e.osinska@ribs.org.pl
website: www.ribs.org.pl
BaSeFood (Sustainable exploitation of bioactive components from the Black Sea Area traditional foods) is a collaborative FP7 research program which aims to contribute in establishing a rationale for integrating the concepts of health promoting foods and traditional foods, in order to create the knowledge base for a sustainable economic development in the area of production and processing of tradition-based healthy foods.
Website: www.BaSeFood-fp7.eu/
Contact: adriana.dascultu@unibo.it; dantuono@agrsci.unibo.it
CAPINFOOD aims at building the capacity of institutions supporting innovation in the food sector and promoting public awareness on benefits of innovation, making the sectoral innovation easier through transnational cooperation of the national food technology platforms and related institutions.
contact: szilvia.gergely@tetalap.hu; katalin.kalai@tetalap.hu
website: www.capinfood.eu/
