Learning how to tell the good food story Erasmus Project

Project Title

Learning how to tell the good food story

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: Research and innovation; Enterprise, industry and SMEs (incl. entrepreneurship); Cooperation between educational institutions and business

Project Summary

This project is about exchanging good practices, focusing on adult education, by introducing a transnational cooperation between different organisations and their staff interested in finding new creative and novel ways to understand and stimulate entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial skills and innovation within the agri-food sector by, amongst others, documenting and communicating the good examples, best practices – good stories that serve to fuel the above. The participants are also in particular interested in exploring and promoting how to stimulate open innovation and open education including developing educational tools and materials using digital technologies in efficient, collaborative and creative ways such as e-learning.
The project also has a close connection to, or even its roots in, the European cultural heritage, considering that the partners wish to exchange experiences on how to tell the good food story. The consortium is presuming/believing that one key to supporting the development in the agri-food sector, including social cohesion, economic growth as well as job creation, is to intertwine the very hands on and literally down to earth agri-food sector of research and education with for example art and creativity such as the making of documentaries or research within economy, bordering to philosophy focusing on the role of the dreams of the entrepreneurs within the agri-food sector.
During the lifespan of the project, the expected impacts will centre on the target groups of the project as well as the different stakeholders, the participating organisations and their respective target groups.
Target groups: representatives from the participating organisations, ranging from students and researches, business designers at incubators and science parks as well as innovators and entrepreneurs within the agro-food sector will gain
•Increased knowledge, insight about each other’s ecosystems and expertise for the benefit of the agro-food industry.
•Established bridges for an open flow of communication and exchange between the participating partners.
•A broader, international, more multifaceted, creative and challenge-driven approach to food related issues.
•A common increased knowledge about our tools and methods
•Access to each other’s networks for a broadened perspective, larger critical mass.
•A greater interest for and knowledge about how to engage in international cooperation in different ways such as participating in projects or in become more active participants in international networks and focus groups.
Other stakeholders such as associated partners: The project will engage a variety of stakeholders in all stages of the project. It is expected that their participation in the activities will increase their understanding on the challenges faced by the agri-food industry and thus increase their motivation to participate in similar initiatives.
In the long term, the partnership believes the main impact will be on the project’s participating organizations, the ambitions is that this project will be the starting point for further cooperation between not only the participating organization but for international cooperation with other relevant stakeholders. Participating organisations have extended their networks and knowledge which has resulted in identified common initiatives for a long-term cooperation that important stakeholders such as researchers, entrepreneurs, companies in the agri-food industry can benefit from.
Participating partners has decided to initiate a cooperation based on the notion of shared common challenges and interests, and partners have been chosen considering their expertise in their respective field. This project is seen as the starting point for a collaboration, starting to get to know each other by exchanging good practices. After getting to know each other’s strengths, competences and contexts, a jointly developed strategic plans for further collaboration based on the common interests described above and the needs that will be identified during the implementation of the project. 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 consortium is 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.This will ensure the sustainability of the project.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 32875 Eur

Project Coordinator

Krinova & Country: SE

Project Partners

• THE MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY
• HOCHSCHULE WEIHENSTEPHAN-TRIESDORF
• UPPSALA UNIVERSITET
• UNIWERSYTET JAGIELLONSKI