Safe Smart Food

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𝑉𝐼𝑆𝐼𝑇𝐴𝑆 𝐺𝑈𝐼𝐴𝐷𝐴𝑆 𝐴𝑂 𝐸𝐶𝑂𝑆𝑆𝐼𝑆𝑇𝐸𝑀𝐴 𝐴𝐺𝑅𝑂𝐴𝐿𝐼𝑀𝐸𝑁𝑇𝐴𝑅 𝑅𝐸𝐺𝐼𝑂𝑁𝐴𝐿
📅 𝟴 & 𝟵 𝗡𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟯
📍 𝘊𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘰 𝘉𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘰, 𝘗𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘶𝘨𝘢𝘭

No 𝗱𝗶𝗮 𝟴 pelas 10h45 será feita a visita ao Auchan em Castelo Branco.

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𝐺𝑈𝐼𝐷𝐸𝐷 𝑇𝑂𝑈𝑅𝑆 𝑂𝐹 𝑇𝐻𝐸 𝑅𝐸𝐺𝐼𝑂𝑁𝐴𝐿 𝐴𝐺𝑅𝐼-𝐹𝑂𝑂𝐷 𝐸𝐶𝑂𝑆𝑌𝑆𝑇𝐸𝑀

On the 𝟴𝘁𝗵 𝗼𝗳 𝗻𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿, at 10:45 a.m., a visit will be made to the Auchan in Castelo Branco.

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𝗔𝗚𝗥𝗜𝗖𝗢𝗡𝗡𝗘𝗖𝗧 | 𝗖𝗟𝗨𝗦𝗧𝗘𝗥 𝗫 𝗖𝗛𝗔𝗡𝗚𝗘
𝑉𝐼𝑆𝐼𝑇𝐴𝑆 𝐺𝑈𝐼𝐴𝐷𝐴𝑆 𝐴𝑂 𝐸𝐶𝑂𝑆𝑆𝐼𝑆𝑇𝐸𝑀𝐴 𝐴𝐺𝑅𝑂𝐴𝐿𝐼𝑀𝐸𝑁𝑇𝐴𝑅 𝑅𝐸𝐺𝐼𝑂𝑁𝐴𝐿
📅 𝟴 & 𝟵 𝗡𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟯
📍 𝘊𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘰 𝘉𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘰, 𝘗𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘶𝘨𝘢𝘭

No 𝗱𝗶𝗮 𝟴 𝗽𝗲𝗹𝗮𝘀 𝟭𝟰𝗵𝟬𝟬 será feita a visita ao Presunto Lourenço em Castelo Branco.

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On the 𝟴𝘁𝗵 𝗼𝗳 𝗻𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿, at 2:00 p.m., a visit will be made to the Presunto Lourenço in Castelo Branco.

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The European Safe Smart Food project ends, after more than 2 years of collaboration between clusters and their SMEs

Business Upper Austria (Austria), Food Products Quality Cluster (Latvia), Smart Food Cluster (Lithuania), Foodservice Cluster (Spain) and Packaging Cluster (Spain) held the final event of the project in Barcelona, 21-23 September.

An initiative that was born with the aim of promoting the internationalisation of clusters and their SMEs, improving their management capacity as well as the agrifood ecosystem, concludes.

Safe Smart Food has led to the creation of a training ebook, the organisation of a hackathon and various cooperation activities, the coordination of more than 7 exchanges and the transfer of knowledge between the entire project universe.

In September, the COSME "Safe Smart Food" project came to an end with a final event that took place in Barcelona, from 21 to 23. The members of the European consortium and all the stakeholders who participated in the project enjoyed three days of activities such as a visit to the Juvé & Camps winery, an innovation workshop with Alfons Cornellà and the preparation of new eco-recipes with the chef Mireia Anglada.

Visit to Juvé & Camps vineyards, on 21st of September
On the first day of the reunion, the results of the project were presented to the members who have been part of the adventure. Emma Vendrell, Head of International Projects of ACCIÓ, reviewed the different ways of accessing European projects for internationalisation, and highlighted the role of the clusters, which in Catalonia: “there is 25 clusters with more than 2.300 members, 69.000 million € of global turnover and promote 150 cooperative projects".
This was followed by a guided tour of the Juvé & Camps vineyards in Sant Sadurní d'Anoia, with a final tasting of cavas and a networking lunch.

Open innovation workshop with Alfons Cornellà, 22 September
The second day was devoted to the exchange of good practices between Catalan and European clusters. The session started with Cluster Talks focused on innovative initiatives carried out by different entities and continued with an innovation dynamic led by the expert Alfons Cornellà.

During the Cluster Talks, Eloi Montcada, Cluster Manager of the Catalan Wine Cluster INNOVI, explained how to make winning project reports. Joaquim Solana, CEO of CENFIM, Furniture Cluster, shared how they generate added value services for their members. Eudald Casas, Cluster Manager of the Catalan Cluster of meat and alternative protein INNOVACC, showed how they face challenges and new ideas for the development of collaborative innovation projects. Pau Fernández, Head of Communication of the Clúster de l'Energia Eficient de Catalunya, told those present the techniques they use to have a media impact and good sponsorship. Elisabeth Torralba, Customer Success at secpho, presented an interesting project called Konstel, a metaverse created exclusively by the cluster, which will hold 14 virtual events in 2022. Finally, Adrià Martínez, Strategic Project Manager of the Beauty Cluster, gave advice to the other clusters on how to organise big events successfully.

Gastronomic workshop in Terra Veritas, with Mireia Anglada, on 23rd of September
On the third and final day, we learned from the Ecochef Mireia Anglada how to create a more sustainable, ecological and nutritionally coherent cuisine with organic products. In the Terra Veritas space, we were able to hold a practical workshop with a final tasting buffet, in which recipes based on sustainability, health and ecology were prepared, thus responding to market and consumer trends.

The consortium of the Safe Smart Food project returns to the face-to-face activity with a meeting in Barcelona!

After months of virtual work and remote meetings, the consortium of the European project joined again in Barcelona the week of 19 October, to define future activities to be carried out and to learn about good practices of the host country.

The five clusters were able to visit the Gastronomic Forum of Barcelona, the facilities of the company Tupinamba, a gastroshow with local products or exchange contacts with potential Spanish stakeholders, among other initiatives.

The consortium travelled to Fira Barcelona to visit the Gastronomic Forum, where the Director of the event, Jaume von Arend, offered an institutional welcome and guided tour of the exhibition’s highlights. Then, the Foodservice Cluster, also exhibitor of the event, led the European clusters by the stands of their member companies to get to know their services, such as Tupinamba, Caviaroli, Bidfood, Adernats, Celler de Capçanes o GB Food. The entities were able to see and test the gastronomic solutions offered by the HORECA sector of Catalonia, as well as potential routes for international collaboration.

One of the experiential activities pointed on the exchange agenda, was the meeting in a gastroshow of the city that, through local raw materials, explained the culinary history of the Catalan territory and the seasonal products par excellence.

The visit to Barcelona was the perfect occasion to bring the consortium together and to agree on future activities and actions to be carried out within the framework of the project. Biofach (02/2022) and Anuga Foodtec (04/2022) were the events chosen for the next face-to-face meetings during the first half of next year, two activities in which to promote internationalisation and collaboration. If you are planning to attend or you would like to visit either of the two fairs, and you need a personalised agenda with an exhibition tour, B2B meetings and much more, contact us!

To finish, we could visit the Tupinamba Group facilities in Canet de Mar and learn how they develop and manufacture their coffees and hot drinks, with natural products. Tupinamba is a family business with more than 120 years of experience, with which different routes of entry to the Austrian, Latvian and Lithuanian markets were explored.
In addition to the meeting, Safe Smart Food has recently published the ebook on which it has been working for the past few months: a virtual document that captures the main international trends and challenges in the Foodservice and Packaging sectors (such as shared value, promoting entrepreneurship etc.).

A summary of the European project
consortium's meeting in Barcelona, where participants defined future activities to be carried out and learnt about good practices of the host country!



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EUROPEAN CLUSTERS LAUNCH A FOODSERVICE AND PACKAGING TRENDS EBOOK

European project Safe Smart Food is launching its reference eBook, which discusses main trends and challenges in the Foodservice and Packaging sectors worldwide. The book includes the main insights and summarized information of the 6 webinars carried out by experts throughout the project, and its creation is part of the main tasks of the project’s working group led by the Cluster Foodservice of Catalonia.

The eBook is addressed to project clusters’ members and to all clusters’ members at international level who might be interested
in reading and having it. The process of creating this eBook began with an internal analysis of the main current trends in the foodservice and packaging sector. Once they were identified, the project members organized 6 webinars starting on February 2021, combining two different areas: clusters’ capabilities (ESCA Label System) and some specialized training areas (such as shared value, promoting entrepreneurship etc…). The goal of the webinars was to understand the main challenges in the foodservice and packaging sectors and so the clusters could acquire the proper skills to address them.

The 6 topics covered both in the webinars and in the eBook are:
1. Excellence in cluster management (ESCA Label System)
2. Promoting entrepreneurship in the cluster ecosystem
3. Shared value across clusters
4. How to make your cluster more profitable with digitalization
5. How to adapt clusters to the main trends and challenges in the food sector
6. Nutrition and Health as a cornerstone of the food sector

In order to take the best out of the webinars’ content, the members of the project have developed this eBook, which summarizes the main insights of each webinar and is now available to be downloaded for all members of consortium’s clusters and other clusters and its
members as well.

The Safe Smart Food project is made up of 5 clusters from 4 EU countries, which have joined forces to promote the internationalization of associated clusters and its members. The objectives of the project are to strengthen collaboration between clusters and improve their management capacity to create the conditions for a favourable ecosystem in the agri-food sector to drive innovation, competitiveness and internationalization of SMEs and offer them an integrated service program based on excellence.

CLICK HERE TO GET YOUR EBOOK
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Are you a retailer, distributor or food producer? Then you are welcome to join Riga Food 2021 matchmaking event happening from 8 September 2021 - 10 September 2021! Event is free of charge.

For registration please apply here:
https://events.b2match.com/events/riga-food-2021-virtual-business

SSF E-book series on topic "Health and nutrition as the cornerstone of the food sector"

This session is called “main trends and challenges in the food sector” and Irina Chiriac from Leitat talks about three main parts:

1. Identification of current trends regarding nutrition, which are also important for the strategic alignment of food producing companies;
2. Research fields, in which Leitat is working and which technologies they use in their work in the field of food;
3. Introduction of case studies of Leitat in regard to food trends.

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SSF | E-book webinar series | INTRO | Health and nutrition as the cornerstone of the food sector

SSF E-book series on topic "How to make your company more profitable with digitalization through clusters"

Cristina Murillo of Gaia, association of industry and knowledge and applied technologies (ICTA) will tell about:

– How to apply digital technologies in food and other sectors

– Examples how to use enabling technologies in different sectors

Sergio Gallastegui of Codecontract will tell about:

– What is block chain technologies;

– How block chain starts to make big impact in the food industry;

– Examples with the solutions helping food industry companies nowadays.

https://youtu.be/FqPpsqVYpDA

SSF | E-book webinar series | INTRO | Make company profitable with digitalization through clusters

SSF E-book series on topic "The main trends and challenges in the food sector".

Beatriz Romanos Hernando of the Techfood and Techfood Magazine will tell about trends and challenges in general, especially looking from perspective of clusters. The main focus of this webinar will be on challenges from the point of view of disruption and innovation, to make food industry more resilient and to be prepare to resist external disruption and how-to companies can prepare to disrupt themselves or other industries. Webinar will be based on analyze of exponential companies’ development. At the end, explaining how to apply this knowledge to food industry.

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SSF | E-book webinar series | INTRO | The main trends and challenges in the food sector

🦾If you are interested in innovation, check Innovation agenda 2021-2023 of the innovation related events prepared by project Safe Smart Food!

🤩Don't miss chance to participate in innovation related events!

If you are interested in food, packaging and export topics, join ClusterXchange online events happening on 10th, 17th and 18th of June!

Writing handCheck agenda here and apply [email protected] to participate!

Over the next few months, SSF will be organising more activities or publishing a training , among other activities

Find out more about the project and how it's going 🔬
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Follow up activities after an exclusive international agri-food innovation Hackathon.

For the first time online international hackathon HACK AgriFood'20 was organized on October 13- November 22nd. HACK AgriFood'20 was aimed helping the agriculture, food and packaging sectors to overcome ongoing problems and to address the challenges posed by the COVID-19 crisis. In total main 11 challenges from 11 countries were solved by number of teams After the hackathon SMEs and teams are continue working further with the proposed solutions for internationalization, digitalization and servitation with potential to attract investments. As a result of Hackathon 18 cooperation agreements have been signed and 4 pending between challenge owners and the teams from Spain, Austria, Latvia and Lithuania.

Finally, Safe Smart Food project consortium partners are following up to all partnership collaboration cases on the results and impact and to ensure and motivate future cooperation to happen.

This notice is a part of the Project SAFE Smart Food WP 5 „ Implementation of joint activities of the partners to promote SME's uptake of innovation, digitalisation and servitisation in the Safe Smart Food and packaging industrial thematic areas (B2B)“.

The third webinar of the Safe Smart Food project was about 'Shared value through clusters'.

Joan Martí Estevez, Director of Cluster Development at ACCIÓ, explained what shared value is, how it differs substantially from corporate social responsibility and presented the B Corp audit as a certificate of recognition by companies. He also introduced the relationship between shared value and clusters through different initiatives carried out from Catalonia.

Would you like to receive the that will come out of the sessions?

Apply here: https://lnkd.in/eXTstj6

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SSF | E-book webinar series | INTRO | Shared Value through clusters

The second webinar of the Safe Smart Food Project project revolved around 'The promotion of entrepreneurship in the cluster ecosystem'.

Jose Luis Cabanero, Founder and CEO of Eatable Adventures, detailed the future opportunities of the industry and explained the importance of entrepreneurship and how it can be promoted and coordinated from a cluster ecosystem.

Would you like to receive the that will come out of the sessions?

Apply here: https://www.safesmartfood.eu/ebook.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L99k_Eppues&ab_channel=SafeSmartFood

SSF | E-book webinar series | INTRO | The promotion of entrepreneurship in the cluster ecosystem

The first webinar of the Safe Smart Food project was about "Introduction to cluster excellence and ESCA labelling system".

Emma Vendrell and Alberto Pezzi, from ACCIÓ, talked about the origin of the ESCA labelling process and the characteristics of each label: the bronze, the silver, and the gold. They also resolved doubts about the indicators.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7s81d1vVu78&ab_channel=SafeSmartFood

Would you like to receive the that will come out of the sessions?

Apply here: https://www.safesmartfood.eu/ebook.html

Ebook The labelling process is a very intense process. It starts way before the evaluation. You will need human resources to prepare the documentation and to attend the evaluation. It is an investment of time, as well. Only the preparation takes usually around 50 and up to 100 hours in some cases. And it....

SAFE SMART FOOD project partners tell more about the aim of the project and expected outcome. Check it out!

Cluster, Upper Austria - OÖ. Wirtschaftsagentur GmbH, Foodservice

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Safe Smart Food project overview

The Safe Smart Food project will create a reference e-book on the main trends in Foodservice and Packaging!

More info here: https://www.clusterfoodservice.org/en/the-safe-smart-food-project-will-create-a-reference-e-book-on-the-main-trends-in-foodservice-and-packaging/

The Safe Smart Food project will create a reference e-book on the main trends in Foodservice and Packaging - Cluster Food Service   The European Safe Smart Food project consortium aims to carry out activities to develop and improve the skills of consortium members to strengthen excellence in cluster management The Safe Smart Food (SSF) project wants to create a reference e-book at European level on the main trends in foodserv...

Knowledge transfer without national borders!

Looking over the shoulders of the best at work, sharing knowledge and pushing innovation across national borders: these are the common flags to describe the ClusterXchange program. The successfully launched pilot project will be continued - despite the Covid-19 pandemic.

SafeSmartFood - one of the COSME Cluster Excellence projects - Partner - the Food Cluster of Business Upper Austria is in charge of ClusterXchange program.

Online meetings usually last three days. Business Upper Austria acted as virtual host on 10 December and 13/14 January. 20 participants were able to learn about sustainability in Austria through expert inputs and had the chance for networking.

A continuation is planned for 26th of March and two further dates - whether virtually or physically depends on circumstances.

Companies and clusters from the packaging and food industry are welcome to join the meetings! The meetings enable "borderless" business opportunities, expand networks and impart knowledge about foreign markets and cultures.

Workshop dates can be found at www.lebensmittel-cluster.at

SafeSmartFood will support participants throughout the process.

For more information on the ClusterXchange program, please contact us: [email protected]

New services programme derived from a 5-year partnership strategy. The Safe Smart Food consortium aims to provide new and better services to the members of all five clusters.

During the last months, the Safe Smart Food team has been working on analysing the food and packaging value chains and their ecosystems in all the countries involved (Austria, Latvia, Lithuania, and Spain) and finding common challenges and opportunities, to elaborate a 5-year common strategy with the main objective of developing common and complementary activities at European level exploiting common synergies and resources.

As a result, five collaboration areas were identified:

1. Reinforce Cluster’s governance, brand reputation and attractiveness and support members in their core business activities;

2. Promote sustainability across value chain;

3. Encourage members competitiveness through innovation;

4. Reinforce international collaboration and information exchange;

5. Lead bigger and bolder projects, including EU ones, with higher impact in the industry.

Within each one of these collaboration areas, new activities and services were defined and will be published soon!

Would you like to know more? Contact us!

ClusterXchange program starts virtually!

The ClusterXchange program is a new pilot program to support short-term exchanges to better connect Europe’s industrial ecosystems. It aims to facilitate transnational cooperation, peer learning, networking and innovation uptake between actors of different industrial clusters.

An exchange constitutes a stay abroad performed by a visiting organisation from an eligible country at a host organisation in another eligible country. Due to the COVID-19 crisis, virtual exchanges are possible. The program is implemented with support from cluster organizations that have teamed up in European Strategic Cluster Partnerships for Excellence (ESCP-4x), like SafeSmartFood. The consortium consists of five clusters from four different European Countries: Smart Food Cluster (Lithuania), Business Upper Austria (Austria), Packaging Cluster (Spain), Foodservice Cluster (Spain) and Food Products Quality Cluster (Latvia). SafeSmartFood invites all interested cluster organizations, SMEs and Scaling-up support organizations to participate in the program. Each of these categories may apply for an exchange: either as a host organization or as a visiting organization. Participation in the program offers numerous advantages:

Visitors:
 Create new business opportunities and get involved in new innovative projects
 Expand your network of contacts and develop new cross-border partnerships
 Gain knowledge about foreign markets and culture
Hosts:
 Develop new cross-border partnerships
 Expand your network of contacts
 Share your experience/information in specific areas
 Increase the visibility of your organization, services and products in relevant communities.

Eligible participants interested in taking part in ClusterXchange, either as visiting or host organization, should apply via the ClusterXchange IT tool. This IT tool is used to manage all of the steps of participating in an exchange:
https://www.clustercollaboration.eu/user/login?destination=oauth2/authorize

SafeSmartFood will provide support to the participants during the whole process. For further information about ClusterXchange program, return to: [email protected]

Registration for the online regional hackathon HACK AgriFood’20 has started!

AgriFood Lithuania DIH, together with international partners, has announced the beginning of registration for the regional online two-day hackathon HACK AgriFood’20, which will take place on November 21-22, 2020. Participants will be able to choose from 18 unique challenges, divided into 6 different categories, that the agri-food sector is facing today.

During the two-day hackathon innovators from Lithuania and neighboring countries will:

- get mentorship and guidance from experts at the top of their fields;
- have the opportunity to pitch their ideas during the international AgriFood Forum 2020;
- compete for a solid cash prize;
- be invited to participate in unique interactive entertainments.

Anyone interested can join HACK AgriFood’20 at https://www.hackagrifood.lt

Registration for the hackathon will be open until November 18.

Challenge categories: Artificial Intelligence; Fighting food loss and food waste; Crisis-averse horticulture; Mitigating labor shortage; Smart animal husbandry; Side-stream valorization; Boosting local production.

Hack AgriFood '20 An international interactive hackathon aimed at helping the agriculture and food sectors overcome ongoing problems and solve challenges related to the COVID-19 crisis

On 26th of October Safe Smart Food submitted an application for The Of The Year award organised by the European Commission and the European Cluster Collaboration Platform (ECCP)
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Fingers crossed! 🤞

Lithuanian food exporters association (LitMEA)
Latvijas Partikas Uznemumu Federacija
Business Upper Austria
Clúster Foodservice
Packaging Cluster

European Cluster Partnership of the Year Cluster organisations play a key role in boosting economic growth and competitiveness in Europe.

Second C2C meeting within the framework of the European Safe Smart Food project, where future trends in the agri-food sector have been shared! Thank you Sandra Muižniece-Brasava, Pablo Valderrama, Emilio Sepulveda, Pablo Molina, Marta Vallbé and Joanna Lambert for participation and sharing your experience!🤝

Tomorrow Safe Smart Food will participate in https://www.hackagrifood.lt/ online kick off event! ❗️🙂🔈 More info to come 😎

Hack AgriFood '20 An international interactive hackathon aimed at helping the agriculture and food sectors overcome ongoing problems and solve challenges related to the COVID-19 crisis

Safe Smart Food project partners having October monthly update meeting! All smiling as always! 🙃