Objectives
FOOD-CLUSTER defines its objectives
Cooperating, ambitious Food regions can learn from each other, strengthen the EU Food research area and can increase the competitive advantage and welfare of the EU by building interregional projects on an EU level based on regional strengths. Moving towards this increased European coverage will involve joining EU “hotspots” of food production and research clusters, learning from each others strengths and weaknesses, defining regional strategies, investing in the strengths through integral use of national and regional funding (FP7/CIP/SF etc.) as a basis for establishing EU consortia founded on regional strengths in Food science – in fact building the ERA in Food.
1. Promoting diversity and excellence
of food production and food research of European regions to increase welfare;
2. Interregional cooperation and learning
between clusters, regions and projects: exchange of experiences with defining Regional Food RTD strategies and implementation through projects at regional level, together with regional policy makers, companies and research institutes to increase R&D performance, innovation and technology transfer;
3. Developing interregional projects
to invest in the combined regional strengths to create excellence in the European Research Area, with use of FP7, CIP and Structural Funds, through
- increasing cooperation between companies and increasing participation of companies in European research and innovation programmes;
- making the EU regional food RTD infrastructure landscape transparent;
- inviting other food research driven regions to participate and clusters from other sectors to interact through cooperation with other European networks.
