MED Food TTHubs is one year old! And since our last newsletter, a lot of progress has been done despite the COVID-19 pandemic… After the preparatory analysis phase that was concluded over the autumn, we had a clear map of the current state-of-play of agro-food supply-chains structures, and the traceability and authenticity processes followed in […]
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Preliminary insights on the needs, preferences and demands of the MED Food TTHubs end-users
Throughout the 2nd semester of the project, the MED food TTHubs team worked intensively to lay the foundation of the MED Food TTHubs e-platform for traceability and authenticity control, within the scope of “WP2: Critical analysis and requirements analysis of traceability and authenticity control system”. To realise its ambition and maximise the platform’s potential, the […]
Focus Group meetings
Over the past months, the MED Food TTHubs partners in the different participating countries were busy organising virtual meetings and events. It was not just the COVID-19 frenzy, when everyone is back from the lockdown and life tries to go back to normal through the new rules on social distancing. For us it was a […]
Meet the NextFOOD project: A Collaborative and Action-Oriented Learning Model
NextFOOD drives the crucial transition to more sustainable and competitive agri-food and forestry systems development by designing and implementing education and training systems to prepare budding or already practicing professionals with competencies to push the green shift in our rapidly changing society. NextFOOD challenges the linear view of knowledge transfer as a top-down process from […]
Creating new synergies: Meet InoFA!
The Internet of Food Alliance (InoFA) is a collaborative innovation cluster that brings together research and education institutions, the civil society and businesses across the agri-food supply chain in order to assist the implementation of state-of-the-art technological capabilities. Purpose of the initiative is meet the emanating challenges related to the circular agricultural economy, food traceability […]
Focus Group meeting for Spain
Two Focus Group meetings have been organised by Life Supporting Technologies – Universidad Politécnica de Madrid on December 2020 representing MED Food TTHub in Spain. The objective was to gather ideas, experiences and opinions of the different actors involved in the agri-food chain in Spain on traceability and authenticity and their application. The first meeting […]
Focus Group meeting for Greece
As the last days of 2020 rolled around, our Greek partners had a mission: having the Quadruple Helix Stakeholders shed light on the challenges facing the local agro-food supply chain! Between 18 and 22 December, three virtual Focus Group meetings were organised in the spirit of co-creation and participation. These events were also the occasion […]
Focus Group meeting for Jordan
Like all the other pilot areas, the local team in Jordan held a series of Focus Group meetings to identify the needs, challenges and opportunities of the local fruit and vegetables industry! Exporters, producers, researchers, farmers, officers, directors, as well as business owners and entrepreneurs participated in our meetings, covering the full agro-food value chain. […]
Focus Group meeting in Italy
On 2 December 2020, from 10 a.m. to 11.45 a.m., it has been carried out MED Food TTHubs Focus Group in Italy. The event has been co-organised and co-leaded by the two Italian partners of the project: TECNOALIMENTI S.C.p.A. and Engineering Ingegneria Informatica S.p.A. The Italian Focus group has been constituted by 9 external Stakeholders […]
Meeting once more with the Focus Group members in Tunisia!
While most cities around the world are still influenced by Covid-19, MED Food TTHubs’s consortium is working hard to taking the next steps for the development of the e-platform for traceability control. But until then, Focus Groups are organised in all countries to shed light on the traceability challenges in agro-food supply-chain. In Tunisia, individual […]