Each year the European Union supports a wide range of research projects in the agri-food industry. At the same time we have to note that the scientific results of European projects are often not transferred into operating practice.

How to improve this situation? How to transfer the results of research and development in an efficiently and effectively way? What new ways of transferring can be used? The aim of the project AgriFoodResults is to find concrete answers to these questions and to develop practical solutions.

The Food-Processing Initiative e.V. belongs to the team of 16 partners from Germany, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium, Sweden, Hungary and Romania. Together, we address ourselves to the task of disseminating present results about technical issues of quality, processing technology and nutrition & health aspects and to support the implementation of new tools into practice.

The focus is primary on SMEs and small research projects. In order to reach the main objectives of offering innovative and sustainable services for dissemination, raising skills of European food scientists on dissemination practices and to successfully disseminate recent results from agri-food research projects there will be tools designed. These include:

1. Manuals for the transfer of research & development results
2. Training sessions and workshops
3. Information campaigns
4. Catalogue and online platforms with results from research & development
5. Innovative applications on the internet for direct exchange of experiences (web 2.0) and three-dimensional representations of machines and technologies (web 3D)
6. European Conference

The project AgriFoodResults started on 1st May 2009 and is limited to the period of 2 years.

For further information please visit http://www.europartnersearch.net/agrifoodresults or get in touch with:

Contact:
Food-Processing Initiative e.V.
Norbert Reichl
Herforder Straße 26-28
D - 33602 Bielefeld
Phone: +49-521-986400
Mail Norbert Reichl

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