Working together to create sustainable and competitive European value chains for fruit and vegetables, including high protein yields
CO-FRESH
Starting from current best practices and key success factors of innovative value chains, and the state of the art in technological and non-technological approaches, the main objective of CO-FRESH is to (re)design and pilot innovative systemic approaches to agri-food value chains to scale up this innovation at the European level. These innovative approaches will improve the economic, social and environmental performance/efficiency of these value chains, through smart integration of technological, social, organisational, managerial and institutional innovations; all of which serve to make them more sustainable.
Project Partners
Countries
Pilot Cases
Agri-food value chains
NEWS
CO-FRESH Pilot Case Working Group Meeting successfully held in Navarra
The second pilot case working group meeting, involving the CO-FRESH pilot case Florette Iberica has been held in Navarra on May 10th. Florette Iberica is a producer of fresh cut vegetables, including more than 60 varieties of Salads and salads’ sprouts with a...
The newest ISEKI e-news issue is now available!
The newest ISEKI FOOD e-news issue #41 has been released in March, including a variety of interesting news on newly launched initiatives, education and training programmes and food-related EU projects. It also features an exclusive article about the Sustainable Food...
New publications about the connectedness of farmers and consumer-citizens to nature and their role in transitioning to agroecological food systems
We are happy to share two interesting scientific articles, recently published by our project partners COEXPHAL and the University of Almeria, on Reconnecting Farmers with Nature through Agroecological Transitions and on The Role of Consumer-Citizens and Connectedness...
PROJECT
The CO-FRESH project aims to provide techniques, tools and insights on how to make agri-food value chains more environmentally sustainable, socio-economically balanced and economically competitive.
26 Partners from 10 countries are participating in the project. Included are 7 pilot cases with 7 different agri-food value chains.
EVENTS
Summer School on Design of Sustainable Food Systems
The LOWINFOOD partners University of Tuscia (Viterbo, Italy), in partnership with the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (Uppsala, Sweden) and the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (Wien, Austria) will organize a summer school on "Design of...
EIT The Future of Food Conference 2021 (30th November – 1st December, 2021)
The Future of Food Conference 2021 will be held between November 30th and December 1st, 2021, as a hybrid physical and virtual meeting in Brussels. The conference provides a high-level platform for discussing future trends in European food innovation, in the broader...
PARTNERS
The consortium brings together key actors from agri-food value chains from 10 different countries:
- Agri-food companies and actors’ associations (farmers, food producers, cooperatives, consumers);
- Experts in technological (including digital) solutions and non-technological (including social, organizational and institutional) solutions;
- Experts in environmental, social, economic and sustainability issues, and in consumer’s acceptance.