Food innovation incubator
Austria
Current situation requiring improvements
There’s currently no regional infrastructure where regional food chain actors can exchange on and find solutions to existing gaps with adequate support.
Main activities in FAIRCHAIN
Launch of an incubator programme that encompasses consulting, networking and prototyping of products, processes and technologies for intermediate food value chain actors
Our project was presented at the STADTLANDBIO congress
FAIRCHAIN was represented at the 2022 edition of the STADTLANDBIO congress, which took place in Nürnberg from 27 to 28 July. During the round table "EU agricultural policy, world market, large corporations - how regional can agricultural and food policy really be?"...
Case study update: Jour Fixes at the Food Innovation Incubator
The Austrian case study started with the Food Innovation Incubator programme in September 2021. Two Open Food Jours Fixes took place since then. Jour fixes will have a defined agenda and take place three times a year in a virtual room. Each jour fixe starts with a...
The Austrian case study presented at ERSCP 2021
The Austrian case study was shared with the participants of the 2021 European Round Table on Sustainable Consumption and Production, which was held in Graz between 8 and 10 September 2021. During the session 'How will we eat?', case study leader FH JOANNEUM,...
Implementation workshop for the Austrian case study
Following a goal-defining meeting with regional stakeholders in April, FH JOANNEUM and Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research moderated a workshop to prepare the launch of an incubator programme bringing together fruit and vegetable stakeholders from...
Workshop: Food Innovation Incubator – Creating added value together
FAIRCHAIN partner FH JOANNEUM (Sustainable Food Systems research group at the Institute of Applied Production Sciences) hosted a workshop with food stakeholders of the Styrian region to prepare the launch of the future Food Innovation Incubator. The topics discussed...