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- AIDA (2007-2010)
"Alliances for Information and Service Agencies" has the objective to strengthen the position of the German two-stage livestock trade. The project focuses are developments and implementations of organisational and technical innovations in the field of general business processes, customer loyalty strategies, general relationship management, logistics as well as general quality, health and risk management.
Contact: Dr. Detert Brinkmann
- Cold Chain-Management
The interdisciplinary working group "Cold-Chain-Management" of the University of Bonn was founded in 2003 by the Preventive Health Management Group, the Department of Food Technology and the Department of Household and Appliance Technology. Due to these different fields of research the working group covers a wide range of scientific topics. Its mission is the development and testing of innovative systems to improve food quality and safety from production to consumption.
Contact: Dr. Judith Kreyenschmidt , www.ccm.uni-bonn.de
- COWINHY
Creation of a Community Guide to Best Practice in Food Hygiene with an example for the wine industry. The aim of the project is to create a methodology for designing, assessing, and validating European guides and instruments for good hygiene practice which are applicable to all sectors of the agri-food industry and support SMEs in the food industry to remain competitive.
Contact: Prof. Dr. Gerhard Schiefer, www.cowinhy.com
- CuteLoop
The strategic objective of CuteLoop is to explore how intelligent Networked Devices such as enhanced RFID-based systems, can be used to effectively 'integrate custormers within an Integrated Enterprise' and with this provide an important step towards 'real' integrated, Real Time Enterprise. Such integrated real time enterprise, having customers as integrated drivers, needs, on one side, highly flexible and dynamic business interconnections to react dynamically and agile, on the other side a highly intensive and just-in-time exchange of knowledge/experience among Large Enterprises (LEs), SMEs and customers.
Contact: Prof. Dr. Gerhard Schiefer, www.cuteloop.eu
- e-Trust
The vision of the e-Trust project is to provide consumers with high quality food they do trust and can afford. The combination of trust and affordability can be reached through improvements in trade processes and in the communication of trustworthiness between trading partners along the chain. The project delivers concepts for trade relationships that combine actual e-commerce developments with trust mediating functionalities. It will support both, improvements in consumers’ food supply situation and the competitiveness of the European food sector.
Contact: Dr. Melanie Fritz, www.etrustproject.eu
- FIN-Q.NRW (2009-2012)
The research network “Innovation by quality communication” (FIN-Q.NRW) coming from the cluster initiative “Food.NRW” is prepared to provide the groundwork during the next three years. The research institutions and the companies are concentrated on a common conception and evaluation of new personal and technical ways of communication within the supply chain. The QM-experts are going to be supported by three instruments:
1. A simulation model for assessment of effort and benefit regarding the integration of online-measurement for the coverage of odour, taste and freshness parameter in assorting processes of slaughtering and processing level.
2. A planning model for the assessment of action alternatives for the organisation of information and communication systems above the level of single companies. The model supports risk-based and overlapping control-mechanisms for supplier chains.
3. A process model that allows audits for guaranteed services from quality and CRS-standards within the supply chains as a basis for combined certification processes. The Fin-Q.NRW project consortium is convinced to release pulses for the whole meat industry. The exchange of subjective and methods of quality, information and results of performance between different levels of suppliers and traders as well as the communication with consumers and clients subsists on strong networks.
Contact: Prof. Dr. Brigitte Petersen
- FOODCOMM
Key factors influencing economic relationships and communication in European food chains
The overall goal of this project is
- to analyse the role (prevalence, necessity and significance) of economic relationships and communication in selected European food chains.
- to identify the economic, social and cultural factors which influence co-ordination within these chains.
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(Safe Food for Europe).
The coordination and support action has the overall objective to disseminate state-of-the-art research results in food safety and quality topics through a series of symposia, expert working group meetings, an online platform with best practise examples and coordination of cooperation and a plan for the preparation of future activities. In addition to the aim of disseminating research results of finalised and current EC funded projects from FP6 and FP7 and other projects focusing on food safety, the consortium will develop strategies and recommendations for European policies (e.g.: food, consumers, research, health, agriculture). The secure handling of food has main impact onto the safety of food products and the European consumers. Furthermore, detailed plans and actions to foster food safety research in Europe are part of the workplan and objectives. The CSA action will pave the way for highly innovative research projects in the field of food safety. FOODSEG will connect research and policy actors in the enlarged European Union and the Candidate countries, in order to fill transitional gaps and achieve a broader network and deeper collaboration between them. The following map gives an overview of the FOODSEG consortium and the very broad network which covers nearly all regions of the enlarged European Union, Candidate countries and also third countries. Contact: Prof. Dr. Gerhard Schiefer
- MoniQA
The MoniQA Network of Excellence (NoE) aims at harmonisation of analytical methods for monitoring and controlling quality and safety in the food supply chain.
Contact: Prof. Dr. Gerhard Schiefer, www.moniqa.org
- Netgrow
This project combines scientific research with developing network learning tools of practical use to food SMEs, network organisations and a variety of other actors through formal and informal linkages. Research activities take three steps: 1. Profound analysis of success factors and barriers for network learning. Particular focus is on the relationship between informal and formal networking and global networks. 2. Network behaviour is analysed at the focal company level, providing insight in network characteristics affecting innovation and SME’s preferences for different designs. 3. A prototype tool is developed and tested to assess performance of the network.
Contact: Prof. Dr. Gerhard Schiefer
- Q-Pork Chains (2007-2011)
Q-PorkChains is an integrated project under the EU's sixth framework programme. The full title of the project is "Improving quality of pork and pork products for the consumer: Development of innovative, integrated, and sustainable food production chains of high quality pork products matching consumer demands". The overall aim of Q-PorkChains is to develop high quality pork products in sustainable production systems with low environmental impact. 53 international partners are cooperating in Q-PorkChains, working together in 6 research and 3 administration and implementation modules.
Contact: Dr. Detert Brinkmann, www.q-porkchains.org
- QUARISMA (2009-2013)
The philosophy behind QUARISMA – QUAlity and RISk MAnagement in meat chains – is to support knowledge transfer between business and science through Industry-Academia Partnerships and Pathways (IAPP) and to contribute to the development of international researcher careers. Funded by the Marie Curies actions of the EU 7th Research Framework programme, during four years researchers will be seconded from universities to meat companies and vice-versa in Germany and the Netherlands. In addition new knowledge will be acquired through international recruitments of recognized researchers. Main topics of research will be: chain management, quality and information management as well as food safety and risk management, covering meat chains of pork, beef and chicken.
Contact: Dr. Detert Brinkmann
- SAFEGUARD (2008-2012)
Sound Animals and healthy Food within the Euregio GUaranteed by an united cross-border Approach (between Dutch and German / public and private entities) that facilitates averting danger in Rural Districts. Three main research topics will be evaluated in SAFEGAUARD in D-NL-project groups – animal epidemics, zoonoses and food safety. SAFEGUARD is funded by the EU Interreg 4a programme. More…
Contact: Dr. Detert Brinkmann, project website
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(Smart Food and Agribusiness: Future Internet for Safe and Healthy Food from Farm to Fork).
The project is financed by the EU under its FP7 program and aims at boosting the application and use of the Future Internet (FI) in the agri-food sector. This involves
a) identifying and describing the technical, functional and non-functional FI-specifications for experimentation in smart agri-food production as a whole system and in particular for smart farming, smart agri-logistics and smart food awareness,
b) identifying and developing smart agri-food-specific capabilities and conceptual prototypes, demonstrating critical technological solutions including the feasibility to further develop them in large scale experimentation and validation, and
c) identifying and describing existing experimentation structures and start user community building, resulting in an implementation plan for a follow-up project phase. Contact: Prof. Dr. Gerhard Schiefer
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(Transparency of Food Pricing).
The overall aim of the project is to investigate the determinants of food prices across EU Member States and the role that competition and other features of food chains may determine food prices. High world commodity prices in 2007-2008 caused significant rises in food price inflation across the EU. However, the experience varied considerably across EU Member States. With world commodity prices likely to be higher in future years compared with over the last decade or so, understanding the factors that determine retail food prices in the EU is a considerable challenge for the research community and of major significance for policymakers and other stakeholders (e.g. consumers, the food industry and producers), both at the national and EU levels. The TRANSFOP project is organised across a number of inter-related themes (the experience of food price inflation across the EU, theoretical and empirical approaches to price transmission, retailer-manufacturer interactions, factor market imperfections and contract enforcement issues in the food supply chain, the role and impact of small and medium enterprises in the EU food sector, and mergers and acquisitions in the food sector. Prof. Dr. Gerhard Schiefer
- Transparent_Food
The complexities in reaching transparency in food networks are due to complexities in products and processes, but also due to the dynamically changing open network organizaion of the food sector with its multitude of SMEs, its cultural diversity, its differences in expectations, its differences in the ability to serve transparency needs, and its lack of a consistent appropriate institutional infrastructure that could support coordinated initiatives towards higher levels of transparency throughout the food value chain. The project focus is on the analysis, documentation, and dissemination of our present knowledge on transparency solutions and needs, their realization through chain communication schemes and the implmenentation environment required for the uptake of solutions and their success.
Contact: Prof. Dr. Gerhard Schiefer, project website: www.transparentfood.eu
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