The Future of Our Food in Europe Eitfood.Eu
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The future of our food in Europe EITfood.eu EIT Food is supported by the EIT a body of the European Union 2 Content EIT Food’s Ambition 4 EIT Food Partners 6 RisingFoodStars 106 Let’s start engaging! 182 Teams 185 3 EIT Food’s Ambition EIT Food is a consortium of over 50 partners from leading businesses, research centres and universities across 13 countries. A people-centric and resource- smart transformer of the European food system, driving consumer confidence and improved global health. Goals and Impact EIT Food’s vision is to put Europe at the centre It aims to boost the skills and entrepreneurial of a global revolution in food innovation and spirit in the sector and unlock the potential of production, and its value in society. EIT Food small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs), will engage consumers in the change process, which in turn will accelerate innovation, create improve nutrition and make the food system jobs, benefit businesses and increase Europe’s more resource-efficient, secure, transparent competitiveness. and trusted. This will be achieved by: EIT Food has six strategic objectives: • Developing new talents: attract and 1. Overcome low consumer trust: support engage new talent through EIT Food Europeans in the transition towards a smart education programmes with curricula food system that is inclusive and trusted. designed to overcome the ‘silos’ of 2. Create consumer valued food for healthier knowledge and skills in specific areas of nutrition: enable individuals to make the food system. EIT Food will introduce informed and affordable personal nutrition new learning methods, entrepreneurial choices. tools, and business practices that empower 3. Build a consumer-centric connected food students, professionals and executives at system: develop a digital food supply all career stages to become entrepreneurial network with consumers and industry as champions in Europe’s food sector. equal partners. 4. Enhance sustainability: develop solutions • Delivering business creation and to transform the traditional ‘produce-use- acceleration support: boost the dispose’ model into a circular bio-economy. competitiveness of the EU food sector and 5. Educate to engage, innovate and advance: ensure that Europe remains the number Provide ‘food system’ skills for more than one global exporter of food and drink. EIT 10,000 students, entrepreneurs and Food will proactively support entrepreneurs professionals through advanced training in transforming their ideas into businesses programmes. through the entire start-up cycle and in 6. Catalyse food entrepreneurship and clearly defining their market. It will generate innovation: foster innovation at all stages of future entrepreneurial champions in the business creation. food sector who will fulfil their ambition to improve nutrition, achieve food security and promote resource-efficient food systems. 4 • Create consumer-valued food for healthier mobile devices and individual online nutrition: develop innovative tools and coaching. This will help to narrow the current technologies that support personalised gap between people’s intentions and actual diet profiles combined with the ability to behaviour towards healthier foods and lead self-assess the impact of customised diets to an improvement of people’s health across through non-invasive home diagnostics, Europe. EIT Food links the pillars of the knowledge EIT Food addresses and connects leading triangle - innovation, education, business business companies and entrepreneurs, creation - with a consumer-centred approach researchers and innovators, students, which gives European citizens the opportunity academics and every European citizen to to become true change agents. develop world-class solutions to societal challenges and create a future-proof and EIT Food will engage consumers in the change effective food sector. process, improve nutrition and make the food system more resource-efficient, secure, transparent and trusted. 5 EIT Food Partners CLC North-East 1 CLC Central 2 CLC North West 3 Legal Entity Belgium CLC West 4 CLC South 5 Industry Research University Israel 6 CLC North-East Warsaw CLC West Leuven Poland Belgium • Maspex • Colruyt Group • Polish Academy of Sciences • EUFIC - The European Food • Raben Information Council • University of Warsaw • University of Leuven (KULeuven) Finland • Puratos • University of Helsinki France • VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland • Roquette Frères • Valio • Sodexo Switzerland • Bühler • EPFL (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de CLC Central Munich Lausanne) • Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Germany Zürich • Bosch, Packaging Technology • Givaudan • Deutsches Institut für Lebensmitteltechnik • Nestec • Döhler • Fraunhofer • Herbstreith & Fox KG • John Deere CLC South Madrid • Siemens • TUM - Technische Universität München Spain • University of Hohenheim • Acesur The Netherlands • Grupo AN S. Coop • DSM • Angulas Aguinaga • Koppert • Azti • PlantLab • CSIC • University of Madrid (UAM) Italy CLC North-West Reading • AIA - Associazione Italiana Allevatori • University of Torino (Unito) UK • Agrimetrics Ltd Israel • Algatechnologies • Quadram Institute (QI) • Strauss Group • PepsiCo • Technion - Israel Institute of Technology • Queen’s University of Belfast • University of Cambridge • University of Reading • Waitrose Ireland • ABP Food Group Iceland • Matis Icelandic Food & Biotech R&D 7 ABP FOOD GROUP Food Processing Master Contact Dean Holroyd Group Technical and Sustainability Director 14 Castle Street Ardee, County Louth Ireland www.abpfoodgroup.com E: [email protected] T: +0121 7172500 Profile Competences & Capabilities ABP Food Group is one of Europe’s Understanding of beef / lamb farming largest vertically integrated Agri Food systems and drivers of farm efficiency / profitability. Sector sustainability (economic and processors. Our core business is beef environmental) Harvesting and adding value processing, harvesting the products to animal by products to minimize waste and from over one million cattle each year maximize value. Food authenticity, security and from farmers throughout Ireland, brand protection of supply chains. the UK and Poland. We also have a sizeable lamb business processing over 2M across ROI and UK. Products that do not make it into the human food chain are further processed in one of our other 3 divisions, Petfoods (a pan European business trading as C&D), ABP proteins (adding value to by-products – tallow, MBM, Gelatine), or our Renewable energy division (trading as Olleco). 8 Expertise related to the EIT Food Strategic Pillars Innovation Communication ABP Beef has a patented Ultra-Tender process ABP have c35,000 farmers supplying directly to underpinning product consistency that delivers our network of slaughter sites. From there we leading consumer satisfaction metrics. supply our network of beef and lamb products We are embarked on various Genetic and for retail, food service and manufacturing Genomic programs with leading institutions to sectors. We would cater for 150m consumers improve sector sustainability (economic and on a daily basis to ensure they have a safe, environmental) tasty and nutritious eating experience. We have 2 trial R&D farm units to prosecute our Effective engagement with our farming supply trial activity and through Blade Farming have an base is essential to deliver sector efficiency. integrated controlled supply chain. Given the importance of the Agri sector to the We are highly active in identifying opportunities Irish economy interactions and influence at and deriving value from animal by products governmental level directly and indirectly is across the sister divisions of ABP beef. commonplace. All of the above is underpinned by significant We interact and collaborate joint research business investment in state of the art facilities. funded and non-funded projects with many of our customers, academics and food experts from around the world. Business Creation Education From humble beginnings ABP Food Group has ABP offer long and short term placements grown organically, by acquisition and through within every sector of the business if required. business creation to become one of Europe’s We also are part of an innovative program to largest integrated Agri Food Businesses. connect young children in schools to the origins Examples of business creation would be : of their food through a program called – ‘Calves Olleco (ABP renewables) originally using tallow in the Classroom’. in biodiesel has grown to become a leader in We work with Agricultural Universities and renewable energy and recycling expertise with do farm simulation trials on efficiency and infrastructure collecting from 50,000 outlets sustainability. weekly. ABP work with leading agricultural bodies from Investing to add value to animal by products in government, levy bodies to feed manufacturers ABP Proteins by constructing the first Gel Bone to discuss and plan for all future challenges. plant in the British isles. ABP sponsors a number of its employees to Establishing our own integrated cattle supply undertake PhD’s / Masters / Further education chain (Blade Farming) across ROI / UK using a activity for the benefit of both individual and controlled system of farming. business. 9 ACESUR Food industry Master Contact Pablo Gómez Rodríguez R&D Carretera de la Carolina Km 29 23220 – Vilches (Jaen) Spain www.acesur.com E: [email protected] T: +34 620362611 Profile Competences & Capabilities ACESUR is one of the most important Main areas of specialization and