The aim of the project is to introduce new technologies in the food industry and food science and improve the capacity of students, researchers, academics and industry professionals, in these technologies.
The food and drink industry is a major contributor to Europe’s economy. In 2018, it had a turnover of 1,109 billion, making it the largest EU manufacturing sector and the leading employer (4.57 million people). This accounts to 294,000 companies and 110 billion exports -17.9% of of EU global exports. Given this size, it is important that such organisations are supported in creating competitive, technologically efficient supply chains through innovation, necessitating novel educational strategies. Considering that Europe’s food and drink industry committed to increase value added by 2.5-3.5% per year to 2025, such innovative strategies need to be firmly on track. The food industry is also growing into a data-driven community, responding to the growing demand from the modern consumer for fully nutritious, sustainable and safe foods.
The objectives of the project are as follows:
As a means to achieve these objectives, the following activities will be implemented:
The participants of this project will be students, researchers, academics and industry professionals who operate in the fields of food and computer sciences and the food industry. These participants will take part in the intensive study programmes and blended mobilities. In addition to this they will also take part in the overall development of the IOs for this project. There will be 38 participants in total taking part in these mobilities and research components.
For the effective management of the project, three transnational project meetings will be organised. Each of the transnational meetings will focus on the current state of the implementation of the project, logistical planning for the upcoming activities, current implementation of the project objectives and indicators, an overlook of current project spending and discuss and issues on the implementation of the project which would have arisen at that point. These meetings will be attended by the project management team, which includes at least one representative from each of the organisations involved in the project.
The project management team, who will be in charge of the implementation of the project, will consist of a project leader/project manager, project financial officer (UM) and six project officers each representing the partner organisations, with regard to the project officers UM will be represented by two officers as they will be the only entity providing expertise on computer science. It is important that this expertise is also reflected during the management of the project so that the project management team can also have the input of a computer expert.
This project will lead to the following results:
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