Last week, a “Workshop on entrepreneurial discovery” was organized in Brasov, to generate a direct collaboration between the actors in the food value chain. The main purpose: create ideas for projects that will subsequently benefit from funding through relevant regional or European programs. At the invitation of Iceberg and Highclere…
The LIAISON project aimed to better understand what makes a partnership successful for innovation. Why do some partnerships have the ability to organise, capture new ideas, nurture them and create something new? How do these partnerships test these new ideas and turn them into something with a real practical application? How…
In January 2019 the Horizon 2020 project LIAISON launched a Europe-wide contest, EURIC, with the aim of seeking-out innovative, inspiring and ground-breaking initiatives from within farming, forestry and the agri-food supply chain. A total of 220 businesses, projects and initiatives entered the contest from 21 EU Member States and from 2 neighboring countries….
Starting with January 2020, the project “FoodSHIFT2030: Food System Hubs Innovating towards Fast Transition by 2030”, launches an ambitious citizen initiative: the transition to a sustainable food system, which encourages more plant-based nutrition, with beneficial effects for the health of the population and the protection of the environment. The…
Stakeholders relevant to small farmers and small foods’ business gather recently in Bucharest for a participatory foresight workshop aimed at helping them distil for small farmers’ contribution to Food and Nutritional Security by the 2030 and 2050 time horizons. Twenty food system actors – small farmers, entrepreneurs, researchers, policy makers,…
During the week of May 14th to 16th, Highclere Consulting organized a meeting with the coordinators of the WP6 ‘Enabling Conditions for Smallholder Farmers’ part of the SALSA project. The meeting, held in Rome and hosted by our partner Coldiretti, gathered 17 partners working both in European and African regions….