ABP Food Group has been selected as part of a pan-European consortium, set up to lead ground breaking food research and improve food production levels throughout the supply chain.
The consortium was chosen by the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT). Alongside ABP Food Group it features 50 partners including Siemens, PepsiCo, Nestle, Sodexo, Queens University Belfast, Cambridge University and the University of Reading.
Over the next seven years, the partners will invest almost €1,200 million matched with up to €400 million, financed by EIT.
EIT Food, the project being led by the consortium, will set up four programmes to target important societal food challenges.
They include:
- FoodConnects Assistant: Examining the sphere of personalised healthy food and nutrition.
- The Web of Food: Researching the digitalisation of the food system.
- Your Farm2Fork: Exploring consumer driven supply chain development and new technology adoption in farming processing and retail.
- The Zero Waste Agenda: Focusing on transforming the current linear “produce-use-dispose” food model into a circular bio-economy.
Additionally EIT Food will train thousands of students and food professionals through workshops, summer schools and online educational programmes.
Dean Holroyd, group technical and sustainability director at ABP Food Group, commented: “We are delighted to be part of this prestigious and ground breaking initiative which will help tackle the many challenges facing the food supply chain.
“From ABP’s perspective, this is a great opportunity to be partnering with leading global players as we look at ways to improve the sustainable production and processing of beef from farm to fork. We look forward to collaborating with our colleagues in EIT Food with a view to making a lasting and positive impact on European and global food production.”
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