BIOVEGEN participates in the Fruit and Vegetable Sector Working Group of the Food for Life Spain Platform

BIOVEGEN participated on July 2 in a new meeting of the “Fruit and Vegetable Sector” Working Group of the Food for Life-Spain Platform. The meeting, which took place in an online format, and was attended by different entities in the sector (researchers, companies and Administration), served to expand information about the situation of different R&D funding calls, contact collaborating entities and learn first-hand on-going projects and project proposals in which to engage in collaboration.

Participation in this Working Group is part of the collaboration maintained between FOOD FOR LIFE and BIOVEGEN with the objective of generating projects, R&D activities and energizing public-private collaboration.

ORDER OF THE DAY

• Welcome and brief presentation of the attendees
• Proposals for new projects and networking:
  • “Transformation of horticultural products.” Pedro Prieto, Fresh Business and Jakion. “GO InnoExtract”. García Presentation, National Conservation Technology Center (CTC).
  • “Rapid monitoring systems for food quality and safety. From “SAMPLE to LAB” to “LAB to SAMPLE”. Iván Nieto, CNTA – Nulab.
  • “Ingenio Foundation in the agriculture of the future: highlighting food production in a sustainable and innovative way.” Natalia Corbalán, Ingenio Foundation.
  • “Health passport in Blockchain”. Alberto Collar, Trace Food.
• Update of the GT lines of interest
• Training opportunities
• Current and future events of the PTF4LS
• Dates of the next WG meetings
• Requests and questions