Food Recovery and Waste Reduction-FoodWard Erasmus Project

Project Title

Food Recovery and Waste Reduction-FoodWard

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 2014

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation; Energy and resources; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

Project Summary

Food Losses and and wastes issue is one of the most important problems that the world is dealing with. Approximately 30 % of the food produced annually is lost or wasted. The main objective of the project is to take measures and improve new processes to minimise losses and wastes occured mainly during production process, and moreover to develop value added products from those wastes that might have a contribution to the economy and society. The Foodward – The Food Recovery and Waste Reduction project aims to create an awareness in the food industry about this significant issue and encourage the companies to focus on developing innovative products that might have sustainable and meaningful contribution to the efforts for minimising food losses and wastes. For this purpose Dairy,Meat and Canned Food sectors have been selected as the pilot sectors. The participants of the project are from Turkey, Germany, Italy and Slovakia. TUGİS (Turkish Food Industry Employers Association, Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Livestock, METU (Middle East Technical University Food Engineering Department), and MKV Consultancy. University of Niederrhein Monchengladbach-Germany, Federalimentare and Spes from Italy, and Cassovia Life Sciences from Slovakia are the project partners from Europe. Multinational partnership is a very useful application since it gives an opportunity to share best practices and experiences from different geographies. we can say that there was a a good cooperation and teamwork between the partners to fullfill the responsibility that has been undertaken.
As a result of the project training modules were being prepared for Dairy,meat, and Canned Food Industry employers. Training seminars and site visits are organised for the project partners and selected industry representatives for exchanging experiences and best practises as well as Foodward Web Site for online training purposes. Dissemination actvities in cooperation with the Universities, NGOs and sectoral associations, chambers of industries and sectoral media had played and important role for creating awareness, consciousness about food waste and actions to be taken for recovery.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 249540,05 Eur

Project Coordinator

TUGIS Turkish Food and Beverage Industry Employers Association & Country: TR

Project Partners

• CASSOVIA LIFE SCIENCES
• HOCHSCHULE NIEDERRHEIN
• SPREAD EUROPEAN SAFETY GEIE
• EUROCREA MERCHANT SRL
• MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY
• MKV INTERNATIONAL CONSULTING TRAINING SERVICES AND TRADE COMPANY LIMITED
• MINISTRY OF FOOD AGRICULTURE AND LIVESTOCK