The FAIRCHAIN project showcases innovative foods at its Final Event
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...
12 September | Kortrijk, Belgium | Innovative Packaging Machine for Small and Mid-Sized Actors
Join us on 12 September for the training event of the Belgian case study of the FAIRCHAIN project! Over the past few years, the FAIRCHAIN initiative has focused on...
23-24 August | Bjurholm, Sweden | Fair and sustainable intermediate value chain for wild berries
The FAIRCHAIN project has been working on innovations and development of the value chain for wild berries. Bjurholmmunicipality in Sweden has been a pilot...
Save the date for FAIRCHAIN’s final event!
More information will be available soon!
17-18 September | Poligny, France | Innovative dairy drinks based on co-products of cheese manufacturing
Two training sessions related to the case study 'Innovative dairy drinks based on co-products of cheese manufacturing ' and open to the public will be held in...
13 June | Graz, Austria | Food Innovation Incubator
The Demonstration Day of the Austrian Case Study was carried out on the 13 June 2024. The aim was to give those who are interested in replicating the Food...
The April 2024 newsletter has been published!
In this seventh issue, you will find updates from our case studies as well as information about training opportunities, new publications, dissemination and...
Case study update: Introducing the Food Innovation Incubator – Cultivating the Future of Food!
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,...
Case study update: Fruit co-products as additional value for regional stakeholders
European fruit chains can increase the value they create from their co-products, like apple pomace or apricot pits. These are underexploited and could be locally...
Case study update: Helping a mid-sized cheese dairy and its associated farmers
The aim of the French Case Study is to help a medium-sized cheese dairy and its affiliated farmers in Eastern France (Bourgogne Franche-Comté) to find innovative...
Case study update: Dairy product traceability
In the Greek Case Study, we employ blockchain technology to improve traceability, transparency, and information sharing in the context of two dairy processes...
Case study update: Berries in the community
As we journey through the FAIRCHAIN project, we're excited to share our latest achievements within the Swedish Case Study in nurturing sustainable and...
Case study update: Microbial contamination of pre-stacked recyclable packaging materials
In the Belgium Case Study, Ghent University investigated the issue of microbial contamination of pre-stacked recyclable packaging materials for food, such as...
FF4US has started!
The FoodFactory-4-Us international student competition has started! Eight teams have been selected and are currently working on projects around the topic ‘Upscale...
The Food Innovation Incubator was presented at a workshop co-organised by CO-FRESH and FOODRUS
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...
The first FAIRCHAIN whey drink is ready!
The French case study aims to offer an alternative way of valorizing cheese whey - by producing a fermented drink. This will improve the competitiveness of small...
FAIRCHAIN and its sister projects share cooperation best practices
On 26 October, FAIRCHAIN and four other projects funded on the RUR 06 2020 and RUR 07 2020 calls - PLOUTOS, LOWINFOOD, CO-FRESH, FOODRUS - held a workshop in...
FAIRCHAIN presented at Ecomondo
The FAIRCHAIN project was presented along with other EU-funded projects related to circular economy at a joint stand within Ecomondo - the reference international...
FAIRCHAIN takes part in the Nordic Wildberry Conference
FAIRCHAIN was well represented at the Nordic Wildberry Conference, held in Umeå, Sweeden from 7 to 8 September, with four poster presentations summarising results...
Data paper: Life cycle inventory and life cycle impact assessment datasets of PDO Feta production in Stymfalia region, Greece
A new paper describes the data used to obtain environmental impacts - calculated by using life cycle assessment (LCA) - of the production of Feta, from cradle to...
New session of the FAIRCHAIN e-learning programme
A new session of the FAIRCHAIN e-learning programme, which includes two courses - ‘Introduction to intermediate food value chains (IFVC)’ and ‘From short to...
FAIRCHAIN tests Blockchain solution to communicate dairy product information to consumers
The FAIRCHAIN Blockchain solution is being evaluated as part of the Greek case study at the Stymphalia dairy premises. It concerns yogurt and feta cheese...
FoodFactory-4-Us Competition 2023 – FINAL CONFERENCE
The 2023 FoodFactory-4-Us competition on "Increasing innovation in existing short food supply chains (SFSC) to make them stronger and more competitive" is ending...
New e-learning course: From Short to Intermediate Food Value Chains
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...
A FAIRCHAIN ‘Food Hack’ will take place from 6 to 8 September 2023 in Umeå, Sweden
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...
The May 2023 issue of the FAIRCHAIN newsletter has been published!
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...
EFFoST 2023 will explore sustainable food and industry
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...
FAIRCHAIN at ICEF 14
In June, FAIRCHAIN's coordinator, Geneviève Gésan-Guiziou will also co-chair a session on “Multi-indicator Sustainability Assessment of Food Systems, Products and...
Save the date for the 6th ISEKI e-conference
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...
FAIRCHAIN workshop prior to the ISEKI-Food Conference in Paris
On 4 July 2023, the FAIRCHAIN project will organise a session entitled "Intermediate Food Value Chains In Practice" as part of the pre-conference workshop series...
FAIRCHAIN at Green Food Tech 2023
FAIRCHAIN's coordinator, Geneviève Gésan-Guiziou, will deliver a keynote speech on how to encourage putting technological innovations for food producers and food...
Online course: Introduction to Intermediate Value Chains
You can now enroll in a 2.5-hour online course on Introduction to Intermediate Food Value Chains (IFVCs) based on initial research findings of the FAIRCHAIN...
Are you a student in a food study programme eager to find solutions to improving short food supply chains? We want to hear your ideas!
The FOOD FACTORY-4-US 2023, supported by the FAIRCHAIN project, gives students in food science the opportunity to submit a project aimed at innovating in existing...
FAIRCHAIN participates in FRUIT LOGISTICA
FAIRCHAIN participated in the FRUIT LOGISTICA fair, which took place in Berlin from 8 to 10 February. It is one of the biggest fairs in Europe that covers every...
Results of the FoodFactory-4-Us student competition
The most recent edition of the FoodFactory-4-Us student competition, organised by ISEKI-Food Association within the FAIRCHAIN project, challenged teams of students...
Recording of the webinar “Food Packaging – is it just for protection or is there more to it?”
The recording of the webinar "Food Packaging – is it just for protection or is there more to it?" delivered during the 2020 ILSI Europe Congress is now available...
The first version of the ICT platform for traceability of Feta cheese production is available
After two successful co-creation workshops – the goal-defining workshop in June 2021 and the implementation workshop in January 2022 - and an intense design and...
FAIRCHAIN creates a berry festival
Today, the forest berry value chain is long and international. Local berry picking and processing have almost disappeared and have instead been replaced by foreign...
The October 2022 issue of the FAIRCHAIN newsletter is out!
A new issue of the FAIRCHAIN project newsletter is now available! You will find find: An overview of the work carried out halfway into the project Information...
FAIRCHAIN will chair a special session at EFFoST 2022
The FAIRCHAIN project will chair a special session dedicated to innovation for small and medium food producers and enterprises at the 36 edition of the EFFoST...
FAIRCHAIN presented at Agrotica 2022
FAIRCHAIN results were presented by Synelixis at Agrotica - the leading exhibition event in Greece in the agro-economic sector and the largest trade fair in the...
FAIRCHAIN will collaborate with the newly launched EU4ADVICE project
The EU4ADVICE project held its kick-off meeting in Amsterdam on 6-7 October. FAIRCHAIN was presented by a representative of ISEKI-Food Association as a key...
The FAIRCHAIN partners met at Ghent University
The FAIRCHAIN project held its second annual meeting at the Ghent University campus in Kortrijk, Belgium. During these three days, partners shared progress,...
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...
The FAIRCHAIN FoodFactory-4-Us Competition 2022 call is open!
FAIRCHAIN FoodFactory-4-Us Competition 2022 call is open! Students can join the 2022 FoodFactory-4-Us International Student Competition to address the following...
Second implementation workshop for the French case study
The second implementation workshop took place yesterday for the French case study. The concept of innovative fermented-whey-based drinks selected by consumers was...
Learn about Intermediate Food Value Chains and earn a certificate!
The FAIRCHAIN e-learning programme begins with the launch of the first course, ‘Introduction to Intermediate Food Value Chains (IFVC)’, available from 16 May to 15...
FAIRCHAIN will be at the Sustainability Science Days Conference 2022
FAIRCHAIN partners will deliver three oral presentations on Wednesday, 18 May 2022. Intermediate value chains as new model for local and regional actors in the...
Case study update: High-Tech packaging machine for all actors, from small to mid-sized
By Pieter-Jan Loveniers, Imca Sampers (U.Gent), Harald Saelens (Scaldopack) and Thierry Bénézech (INRAE) The Belgium case study aims to develop an innovative...
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...