International Activities

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Closure and perspective of the baltfood network at the final general assembly for all project partners in Lübeck

On January 12th, 2012, twenty-five representatives of food clusters and scientific institutions from the Baltic Sea region held a general assembly in the media docks in Lübeck in order to work out the details of the final reporting and to plan the continuation of the baltfood project.

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The Baltic Sea Region Food Cluster: Innovation and Competitiveness in Action
The food industry has developed into a highly competitive and strong industrial sector within the Baltic Sea Region (BSR). Emerging trends like more demanding consumers, changing functionality of food, a concentration process in the retail sector and shorter product lifecycles, however, require a constant technological evolution. In this regard various deficits within the SME sector were identified: late recognition of food trends; low conversion of scientific findings into marketable food products or below average innovation rates.
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New EU-project on Food Models

The new EU-project DREAM had its kick-off meeting in Nantes, France in the end of May 2009. The full name of the four-year project is "Design and development of realistic food models with well-characterised micro- and macro-structure and composition", and it aims at developing four different food models to be used as standards that can be exploited across all major food categories to facilitate risk assessment and nutritional quality for food research and industry.

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EU Health Grain (2005-2010)

In this study, 43 partners from 15 countries are researching the variation and process-induced changes of wheat and rye-based products as well as the human metabolic reaction to those products.

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