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Foreign Investments Europe ‘Food Circle – Food for Healthy Ageing’
‘Food Circle – Food for Healthy Ageing’
Impulse for the Northern Netherlands food industry - the Northern Netherlands Alliance has awarded a subsidy to the Food Circle – Food for Healthy Ageing project. On 24 October 2011, Mr. Konst, member of the Friesian Provincial Executive, will begin the activities of this project officially at a meeting in the ‘Eet & weet huis’ (Eat & Know House) in Leeuwarden.
The food industry is important to the Netherlands in general, but to the Northern Netherlands in particular. Hundreds of companies, including many SMEs, in this region account for 15,000 jobs and 6 billion Euro of turnover per year. The position of this industry is jeopardized by upscaling/concentration of purchasers and suppliers and the impending threat of companies, education and the labor force leaving the region. A number of Northern Netherlands organizations recognize this threat and have taken the lead to turn the tide for this sector in the Northern Netherlands. Together they successfully submitted an application for subsidy to the Northern Netherlands Alliance for the Food Circle - Food for Healthy Ageing project.
Partners at the start of this project are TechnologieCentrum Noord-Nederland, Innexus which includes united companies from the northern food industry, Avebe, Hogeschool Van Hall Larenstein, and Hanzehogeschool Groningen. Active cooperation and support are foreseen with and by the Healthy Ageing Netwerk Noord Nederland (HANNN) and the Carbohydrate Competence Center (CCC), which is a collaboration of Groningen University and Wageningen University & Research amongst others. TCNN will act as the lead party on behalf of the participants.
Food Circle will operate as a regional platform in which Northern Netherlands’ food companies, associated sectors, knowledge institutes and experts will exchange knowledge in an inspirational way and ensure multidisciplinary cooperation. The network program of Food Circle can offer support to interested companies on implementing innovations. Within this project there is close cooperation with the food technology course of Hogeschool Van Hall Larenstein (VHL) and the Life Sciences& Technology institute of Hanzehogeschool Groningen (HG). In the framework of this project, lecturers with the corresponding knowledge circle will be appointed at both academies in the areas of ‘Ingredients and Health (HG)’, ‘Food physics (VHL)’ and ‘Health & Food (VHL)’.
Source: TCNN, October 24, 2011