Nov 28, 2024
After four years of work on developing competitive intermediate food value chain alternatives, the partners of the FAIRCHAIN project held a Final Event on 14 November, in Bruges BE. The Event had two parts which together attracted several dozen participants: a PLENARY Session at the 38th EFFoST (European Federation of Food Science and Technology) International Conference 2024 and a NETWORKING Forum/Tasting Event.
The EFFoST PLENARY Session was led by the FAIRCHAIN coordinator, Geneviève Gésan-Guiziou of INRAE FR. It focused on lessons and achievements from the six Case Studies of the project and speakers also covered co-creation, sustainability assessment, and policy recommendations for establishing intermediate food value chains.
The NETWORKING Forum/Tasting Event encouraged participant engagement with project partners and case study leaders – while attendees sampled food products developed using innovative solutions to improve the sustainability of intermediate food value chains! Attendees enjoyed drinks, feta cheese, blueberry jam, pickles/vinegars, and chocolate raspberry snacks. Videos of each Case Study were released at the event and can be viewed here.
Apr 6, 2024
The final co-creation workshop of the
Austrian case study was held on the 21st of March. In the goal-defining and implementation workshops held in spring 2021, stakeholders from the Styrian fruit and vegetable value chains were invited to participate. Based on the workshop results, a program for the Food Innovation Incubator was defined, and activities within the three incubator modules (1) innovation coaching, (2) knowledge transfer, and (3) networking were executed. During the final co-creation workshop, the conducted activities and results were presented and discussed with the respective stakeholders. This discussion encompassed policy perspectives and options for the continuation of the Food Innovation Incubator beyond the conclusion of FAIRCHAIN. This workshop was organized in collaboration with Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research.
On the demonstration day event, practitioners will be invited to participate in workshops and observe the results of the incubator. The target audience for this event includes farmers, food entrepreneurs, and students. During this event, videos will be recorded and made available, showcasing interviews with stakeholders documenting their experiences collaborating with the Food Innovation Incubator team.
Feb 8, 2024
This week, FAIRCHAIN participated in the Innovations in Agri-Food workshop organised by the CO-FRESH and FOODRUS projects in Nitra, Slovakia.
Hartmut Derler (FH JOANNEUM) shared the findings of the Food Innovation Incubator case study with presentations on ‘Consulting, networking and prototyping of products, processes and technologies’ and ‘Collaboration with practice: Findings from the project FAIRCHAIN.’
Aug 1, 2022
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?” partners from FH JOANNEUM discussed intermediate value chains and the Food Innovation Incubator case study.
Apr 4, 2022
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 short introduction round of the persons who take part in the meeting. It continues with the presentation of a specific food innovation topic, shows updates of the ongoing activities within the incubator programme and invites selected participants to introduce a topic of interest. It ends with a general discussion of other relevant dates, activities and events connected to the target food system. The target group of the jour fixes are food system and network stakeholders and experts.
Also, in November 2021 a ‘Call for Food Product Innovation Ideas’ was sent out, and 11 farmers and food entrepreneurs sent in their ideas to be developed as part of a co-creative workshop series. On the 21st of January, a kick-off workshop took place, in which the goals of the respective food product development projects were discussed, and the infrastructure of the incubator was shown to the participants (picture).
