A new course has been designed as part of the FAIRCHAIN project for Short Food Supply Chain (SFSC) entrepreneurs interested in growing their SFSC from a local to a regional business. It will be available until 14 July 2023.
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The FAIRCHAIN Food Hack will bring together students and instructors for an intensive 3-day session in which ideas for innovation all along the intermediate food supply chain are presented and refined. The focus will be on the local berry industry of Northern Sweden.
Local students will mix with international prize winners in six teams of three to work out a solution to a specific problem presented by local berry stakeholders. The local students, chosen by their faculty, will work with winners of the 2022 and 2023 editions of the FoodFactory4Us International Student Competition Game.
A local jury of berry experts will evaluate student presentations and their will be winners in several classes: most creative, most motivated, most likely for business success.
Draft agenda and more information coming soon.
The latest issue of the FAIRCHAIN newsletter provides a general progress update more than halfway into the project and reports on exciting developments from the French and Swiss case studies. You will also find information about training opportunities and dissemination activities.
The 2023 edition of the EFFoST International Conference will take place in Valencia (Spain) from 6 to 8 November 2023. This year, the conference will have ‘Sustainable Food and Industry 4.0: Towards the 2030 Agenda’ as its main theme. The deadline to submit abstracts is 15 May.
Just like last year, FAIRCHAIN is expected to present results. More information will be shared soon!
In June, FAIRCHAIN’s coordinator, Geneviève Gésan-Guiziou will also co-chair a session on “Multi-indicator Sustainability Assessment of Food Systems, Products and Food Process Technologies” and give a presentation on involving stakeholders in the sustainability assessment of a technology or food value chain at the International Congress on Engineering and Food in Nantes. The presentations will be based on the experience and learnings of the FAIRCHAIN project.
The 6th edition of the ISEKI E-conferences “Food production based on food safety, sustainable development and circular economy”” which will take place online from 22 to 24 November 2023.
The e-conference will be organized in collaboration with the University Lucian Blaga (Sibiu, Romania), the University of Life Sciences King Mihai I (Timisoara, Romania), and the ISEKI Special Interest Group (SIG) “Food Structure and Bionanotechnology”.
More information on abstract submission and registration will be published shortly.