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Healthy
and Safe Food for the Future - A Technology Foresight project
in Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania and Slovakia
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The ultimate
goal of the project is to assist the total food chain in Central
and Eastern European countries to reach higher quality and safety
standards. The goal will be reached by two objectives of the
project which are as follows:
a) To promote a new decision-making culture among managers and
policy-makers in order to put quality and safety issues into
the centre of the total food chain management.
b) To identify future key technologies and new business models
to promote the quality and safety requirements in food production,
by establishing a Food Quality and Safety Platform in CEE countries.
The Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies (wiiw)
is a participant in the project and supplies data and expertise
on agriculture and the food industries in the CEE countries.
The project is coordinated by the United Nations Industrial
Development Organization (UNIDO) and financed by the European
Commission's (EC) Sixth Framework Programme. Project partners
are: Fundación Observatorio de Prospectiva Tecnológica Industrial
(OPTI), Spain; The Vienna Institute for International Economic
Studies (wiiw), Austria; Institute of Economics, Hungarian Academy
of Sciences (IE HAS), Hungary; Technology Centre of the Academy
of Sciences CR (TC AS CR), Czech Republic; BIC Group, s.r.o.
(BIC Group), Slovakia; National Wholesale Market Company Inc.
(NWMC), Croatia; Executive Agency for Higher Education and Research
Funding (UEFISCSU), Romania; and Applied Research and Communications
Fund (ARC Fund), Bulgaria.
Project duration: The project started on 1 February 2007 and
will finish on 31 January 2009.
Conference Announcement: On 27 January 2009 a Final
Conference will be organized by UNIDO at the Tech Gate Vienna,
Vienna, Austria.
For further details on the project and the conference please
visit www.futurefood6.com.
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