CentMa Projects
International Center for Management, Communication and Research
Projects
SmartAgriFood
(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
FoodSEG
(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
TransFOP
(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.
Contact: Prof. Dr. Gerhard Schiefer
