Jul 2, 2021
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 the Austrian province Styria aimed at developing intermediate value chains in the respective sectors. It is the start of a series of implementation workshops, moderated and hosted by the case study teams.
Jun 28, 2021
Participants representing the wild berry companies, public sector and universities come together to better understand the problems and opportunities of wild berry production in the north of Sweden, and set up goals for development of value chain. Visit the dedicated page for more information about the Swedish case study.
Jun 23, 2021
Participants representing consumers, dairy production and processing, retail and ICT involving blockchain, smart agriculture, IoT experts and solution designers were part of the discussion aimed at defining goals for the Greek case study. They addressed consumer demand for more food transparency, key product characteristics in intermediate food chains and challenges in using blockchain technology, including costs.
Jun 18, 2021
The first co-creation Workshop of the Swiss case study took place today! More than 30 participants discussed about how to generate new value propositions for SMEs and other regional food chain actors through improved valorisation of co-products.The main topics addressed during the workshop will be: co-product valorisation in the fruit & vegetable sector to develop alternative cleaning agents or crop protection products, increasing added value generated per unit of fruits sold, reducing the ecological footprint and improving the cooperation between farmers and processors.
Apr 28, 2021
We have published our first project newsletter, which focuses on the concept of intermediate value chains. We also present the Austrian case study, “Food Innovation Incubator”, and give an overview of the outreach activities of the past months to maximise synergies with other European projects.
Jan 11, 2021
Food science, food industry and food associations kicked off the Horizon 2020 FAIRCHAIN project with online discussions on 5 and 6 November 2020. Representatives of the 20 project partners, located in 8 European countries, began planning the work for this four-year project, which has a budget from the European Commission of nearly 7 million euros.
At the kick-off meeting, FAIRCHAIN work package leaders outlined their plans for the first year of the project. We can expect an innovation platform, a communication plan, mapping of current food chains, product development and life cycle assessments.
Project launch press release
