Amplifying the knowledge and use of testbeds Erasmus Project

Project Title

Amplifying the knowledge and use of testbeds

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 : Strategic Partnerships for adult education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Enterprise, industry and SMEs (incl. entrepreneurship); Cooperation between educational institutions and business; Research and innovation

Project Summary

This project will stimulate open innovation and open education including developing educational tools and materials using digital technologies in efficient, collaborative and creative ways by co-developing an online training program customized for the target groups i.e. personnel from university transfer offices, science parks and technology centers offering a holistic view of the various technologies and available capacities that facilitate innovation and sustainability within the agri-food sector. The program will be designed to facilitate the transfer of knowledge about test beds, new technologies and other innovation infrastructures to companies, above all SMEs, for the enhancement of their innovation processes. Together the partners will develop digital tools and learning materials using Open Educational Resources. The project will also stimulate synergies between participating research and innovation activities, promote new technologies in order to improvement education and access to Open Science.
The project will support the target group (educators) in their professional development, especially by exchange with other persons having similar professions, they will learn about communication and strengthen the link between research and innovation with education within the agri-food sector.
The project activities have been designed to meet the needs of the target group, and lead to the achievement of the project objectives and delivery of the planned results.
The objectives of this project are
a) To have increased the knowledge about and the use of participating facilities, helping especially SMEs in the development of food related innovations such as new processes and products.
b) To have co-created digital tools/methods for learning and collaborating as tools for development and entrepreneurship for participating organisations, expecting that other stakeholders within higher education, companies and mediators can benefit from the experiences made in this project. The ambition is to create a program that can be further developed, including more testbeds and other facilities for innovation.
This project will produce a range of intellectual outputs, dissemination events, reports and other outputs which support the implementation and sustainability of the project. The impact we foresee include:
1.Increased exchange, better flow and co-creation of knowledge between higher education teaching staff, company staff as well as staff at mediator organisations.
2.More innovative, and multidisciplinary approaches to food related learning and teaching and R&D.
3.Higher level of commercialisation of research results in the participating research institutions.
4.Increased growth, innovation and empowerment amongst the food companies thanks to better support from the eco-system.
5.Participating organisations have extended their networks, knowledge and insights which has resulted in more common activities such as join international projects, improved structures for further development of methods for learning as well as increased knowledge about the industry and the challenges we face internationally.
6.Access to each other’s testbeds and networks for increased impact as well as stimuli to develop new concepts and opening of new markets.
The project partners were chosen based on their expertise as well as their strategical aims to secure that all will bring knowledge, valuable input in their capacity to engage and create a community of practice at a local level. This was some of the criteria for choosing the partnership as well as knowing that all have a good track record and can bring other added value to the project. This project is seen as the starting point for a collaboration, starting with the development of the project’s online training program for Business designers/developers (mediators), key agents in the dynamization and support of innovation processes, in incubators and other environments that serve as an interface to companies including start-ups, within the food supply chain.
The consortium firmly believe that the project will lead to an increased motivation and knowledge about how to participate in international transdisciplinary collaborations such as international projects and networks and is therefore foreseeing that cooperation will continue on the organisations’ own expense. The e-platform will be kept active thanks to the internal resources for a 24 months period from the end of the project. The consortium is also going to support and to “multiply” the results of this proposal, exploiting broader contexts of cooperation and it will try to retrieve i) the funds made available for the territorial cooperation and ii) those funds made available by Horizon2020 as well as national and international funds, including the EU. Finally, the associated partners will share the project results among their networks and thus enhance the project visibility and outreach.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 424965 Eur

Project Coordinator

Krinova & Country: SE

Project Partners

• DANMARKS TEKNISKE UNIVERSITET
• FUNDACION PARQUE CIENTIFICO TECNOLOGICO AULA DEI
• LUNDS UNIVERSITET
• Wisefour Innovation and Development Organisation Ltd