Alliance for Skills and Knowledge to Widen Food Sector-related Open Innovation, Optimization and Development Erasmus Project

Project Title

Alliance for Skills and Knowledge to Widen Food Sector-related Open Innovation, Optimization and Development

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Knowledge Alliances for higher education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics:

Project Summary

<< Background >>

The Food & Drink industry is the EU largest manufacturing sector in terms of turnover, value added and employment. Despite of market turmoils also due to Covid-19, it remains stable and dominates the EU external trade. Higher Education and training activities in the food sectors are growing in the EU largely dominated by conventional study programmes and teaching methodologies that in general do not allow the achievement of competences and skills needed by the current and future job market.

<< Objectives >>

The ASKFOOD main aim was to create a permanent knowledge sharing alliance between businesses, business associated organisations and Universities in the food and food-related sectors. Establishing such an alliance, the ASKFOOD consortium: (1) created the necessary frame for collaboration, (2) converted innovative concepts into new tools to be provided within this frame(3)tested and applied innovative training methodologies(4)ensured sustainability by establishing a permanent alliance

<< Implementation >>

The project has:-implemented a series of virtual tools to early discovery and anticipate trends and related emerging skills-implemented an interactive platform and dynamic networking for multisector knowledge sharing and co-creation-improve training models, by launching disruptive, learner-led and cross-industry training schemes, i.e. Reverse incubator -set up common tools and organizational frame that will guarantee the sustainability of the network: the permanent Observatory.

<< Results >>

•Cross-industry knowledge platforms (Knowledge and Training Hub and Clusters) •Open Innovation framework to modernize education/training (ASKFOOD DBTE)•Interactive repository of emerging skills and professional profiles in the food sector in a forward-looking perspective (Interactive Atlas) so to forecast future skill needs (Forecast Aggregator) •Acceleration and growth hacking solutions (Reversed Incubator, ASKFOOD Garage Labs)•Permanent ASKFOOD Observatory

Project Website

https://www.askfood.eu

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 983623 Eur

Project Coordinator

UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI TERAMO & Country: IT

Project Partners

• TECHNOLOGIKO PANEPISTIMIO KYPROU
• WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY
• FOODDRINKEUROPE AISBL
• VEREIN ISEKI-FOOD EUROPAISCHE GESELLSCHAFT FUR DIE INTEGRATION DER LEBENSMITTELWISSINSCHAFT UND -TECHNOLGIE IN DIE LEBENSMITTELVERSORGUNGSKETTE
• SYNDESMOS ELLINIKON VIOMICHANION TROFIMON SOMATEIO
• UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB – FACULTY OF FOOD TECHNOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY – UZAG PBF
• CASSIOPEA DI DI FALCO GERMANA & C.SAS