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Hub4Food

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PROJECT SUMMARY

Hub4Food is a transnational initiative to establish an innovation hub for the Atlantic food sector. It brings together agrifood clusters and RTOs to enhance innovation ecosystem connections and the RDI capacities of the Atlantic food industry, as well as to foster the development of new and improved food products (focusing on marine origin), thanks to complementary competences and capacities.

Hub4Food will put in place a market-driven RDI programme to test and validate advanced technologies applicable to the food sector, stablishing a mechanism for collaboration between RTOs and enterprises (specially SMEs). It will also implement a Business Innovation Facility providing services to food enterprises, supporting them to overcome challenges and needs. Also, it will integrate the 4-helix perspective through a citizen science approach, by involving science stakeholders, policy makers and society. Thus, Hub4Food will foster innovation, competitiveness and sustainability in the food sector.

Project overall objective:

Hub4Food aims to enhance the R&D and innovation capacities of the Atlantic food industry and RTOs in the Atlantic Area and foster the development of new and improved food products (with focus on marine origin). It will promote the uptake of advanced technologies or processes to increase the sustainability and competitiveness of the Atlantic food sector, as well as improve the availability and quality of business and innovation support services that enterprises (especially SMEs) benefit from.

Workplan:

WP1 - Map, inspire and connect

WP1.1 - Identifying the priorities and needs of SMEs in the agri-food sector

The following questionnaire is aimed at SMEs in the agri-food industry (production and processing of food products) that intend to use marine resources, including fish, shellfish, seaweed, etc., to develop new food products in any sub-sector. This questionnaire has been drawn up in close collaboration with the Technology Centres.

Your answers will be used to:

- Make a preliminary identification of the companies interested in participating in the Hub4Food project,

- Identify the current obstacles and needs of companies in the various sub-sectors of the agri-food industry to utilise marine ingredients.

Your participation in this questionnaire will help the Hub4Food project partners to better understand your level of knowledge and mastery of a range of new technologies, techniques and processes and to tailor our offer of support and services to your needs.

https://forms.office.com/e/FSm1KP3wuy

WP2 - Pilot projects for uptake of advanced technologies and development of innovative products

WP3 - Hub4Food BUSINESS INNOVATION FACILITY (BIF)

WP4 - Citizen science actions for the consumers involvement in food value chains

 

https://www.atlanticarea.eu/discover-our-projects/approved-projects/hub4food 

DETAILS:

PROJECT CODE
EAPA_0024/2022

PROGRAMME
INTERREG ATLANTIC

PROGRAMME PRIORITY
1 - Blue innovation and competitiveness

PROGRAMME SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE
RSO1.1. Developing and enhancing research and innovation capacities and the uptake of advanced technologies

FIELDS OF INTERVENTION
012. Research and innovation activities in public research centres, higher education and centres of competence including networking (industrial research, experimental development, feasibility studies)

MAIN BENEFICIARY
Asociación Cluster Alimentario de Galicia (Galicia, ES)

OTHER BENEFICIARIES

  • Asociación Nacional de Fabricantes de Conservas de Pescados y Mariscos - Centro Técnico Nacional de Conservación de Productos de la Pesca (Galicia, ES)
  • EIT Food Basque, S.L. (País Vasco, ES)
  • InovCluster - Associação do Cluster Agroindustrial do Centro (Centro, PT)
  • Associação Centro de Apoio Tecnológico Agro-Alimentar (Centro, PT)
  • Instituto Politécnico de Leiria (Centro, PT)
  • Valorial (Bretagne, FR)
  • Institut Technique de Développement des Produits de la Mer (Bretagne, FR)
  • BIA Innovator Campus (Northern and Western, IE)
  • PRAXENS (Haute-Normandie, FR)
  • Teagasc - Agriculture and Food Development Authority (Southern, IE)

START DATE
2024/01/01

END DATE
2026/12/31

TOTAL PROJECT BUDGET
2 311 383,11€

TOTAL ELIGIBLE INOVCLUSTER BUDGET
274 160,00 €

FINANCING RATE/AMOUNT
75% / 205 620,00 €