NEWS
CO-FRESH Event “Cultivating Sustainability: Advancing Efficient Agri-Food Value Chains”
On March 31st, CO-FRESH organized a seminar on cultivating sustainability at the COPA-COGECA offices in Brussels and online. During the event, 4 out of 19 selected agri-food innovations currently being implemented in the CO-FRESH pilot cases were presented to the...
CO-FRESH Dissemination Event “Cultivating Sustainability Advancing Efficient Agri-Food Value Chains”
We are thrilled to announce that CONFAGRICOLTURA, COOPSEU and EUROCOOP, together with CO-FRESH Pilot Cases are co-hosting the event "Cultivating Sustainability: Advancing Efficient Agri-Food Value Chains". The aim of the event is to present 4 new innovations in the...
19 innovations to more competitive, efficient, resilient and sustainable food value chains
In the frame of the Co-fresh project (Co-creating sustainable and competitive fruits and vegetables value chains in Europe), 19 co-created innovations will be implemented and monitored in the 7 pilot cases of the project in order to assess their environmental and...
COPA-COGECA Quantifarm Policy Events & EU Projects Workshop
CO-FRESH has taken part in the Quantifarm Policy Events & EU Projects Workshop, organised by the European farmers and agri-cooperatives organisation COPA-COGECA on December 6th in Brussels. This highly interesting session featured presentations from the sector of...
CO-FRESH Pilot Case Co-creation Sessions
From co-creation to intervention for the improvement of sustainability in agri-food chains. The H2020 CO-FRESH project works to improve sustainability in fruit and vegetable agri-food value chains in Europe, including high-protein products. To this end, CO-FRESH...
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...
The Sustainable Food System Innovation Platform is now live!
CO-FRESH, in collaboration with the H2020 RUR-06 project FAIRCHAIN, has released the Sustainable Food System Innovation Platform (https://www.smartchain-platform.eu/). The platform is a continuation of the former SMARTCHAIN Innovation Platform, a stakeholder-focused...
Second CO-FRESH Newsletter 2021 is out now!
The second CO-FRESH Newsletter 2021 has been published today! Besides an interesting read on the publication of a roadmap for a sustainable Food Systems Framework Law, this edition features a section about the company and CO-FRESH pilot case, Pilze-Nagy Ltd., a recap...
CO-FRESH General Assembly Meeting 2021 in Spain
The 2021 General Assembly Meeting of CO-FRESH members was held between Thursday, 7th & Friday, 8th of October. The event was organized by the National Centre for Food Technology and Safety (CNTA) and the Center for Agro-Food Economics and Development (CREDA). It...
SmartAgriHubs Open Call (deadline: 29th September, 2021)
SmartAgriHubs offers funding to digital innovation services providers. This includes the overall lifecyle for developing, seting-up, offerring, providing, testing, validating, refining as well as enhancing services for Digital Transformation and Innovation. You can...
SMARTCHAIN Booklet “Insights & recommendations to support collaborative Short Food Supply Chains” available in 9 European languages
SMARTCHAIN is proud to present its digital booklet “Insights & recommendations to support collaborative Short Food Supply Chains” based on the main results and findings of the project. In this booklet, elaborated by EUFIC & the SMARTCHAIN consortium, farmers,...
New Common Agricultural Policy (CAP)
The provisional political agreement reached on the 25th of June 2021 by the European Parliament and Council on the new Common Agricultural Policy introduces a fairer, greener, more animal friendly and flexible CAP. Higher environmental and climate ambitions, aligned...
SMARTCHAIN “Best practice guide for the implementation of innovative solutions in SFSCs”
The SMARTCHAIN project has developed the “Best practice guide for the implementation of innovative solutions in SFSCs“. This guide includes: a) The meaning and key aspects of SFSCs. b) An overall description of the SFSC context in Europe. c) The definition and types...
Boosting sustainable digitalisation in agriculture, forestry and rural areas by 2040: Webinar highlights (report & video)
On 30 June 2021, the DESIRA Rural Digitalisation Forum (RDF) held a webinar to discuss the role of digitalisation in the European Commission’s long-term vision for rural areas (LTVRA), and the policy support needed to ensure that digitalization leads to the...
Free online course ‘Trust in Our Food: Understanding Food Supply Systems’
How does your food reach your plate? Can you trust your food? Developed by EIT Food, University of Reading, Università degli Studi di Torino & EUFIC, the FutureLearn online course 'Trust in Our Food: Understanding Food Supply Systems' is a great opportunity to...
SMARTCHAIN “Best practice guide for improved business performance in SFSCs”
The SMARTCHAIN project is proud to present the "Best practice guide for improved business performance in SFSCs". This is a guide for the application of reference exploitation models, improving business performance in SFSCs and helping farmers and food producers to...
The CO-FRESH leaflet is already available in English, French, German, Hungarian, Italian and Slovak!
The CO-FRESH leaflet is already available in 6 languages. Pretty soon it will follow some additional European languages! Below you can find the links to download the different versions: English French German Hungarian Italian Slovak
IFOAM Organics Europe: Organic production and consumption in Europe moving beyond a niche (interactive infographic)
Over the last three decades organic food and farming has been growing year by year across the EU and continues doing so. Are you curious about organic data in Europe? Check out this interactive infographic from IFOAM Organics Europe. The tool displays organic...