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The High Price of Food

Businesses within the food industry are facing significant difficulties. In an age of global trade, ensuring food security is a great challenge. continue reading...

The Fraunhofer Food Chain Management Alliance is your professional business partner in collecting recent scientific research and using it to develop products and solutions. continue reading…

At Fraunhofer, we develop innovative approaches in food security, microelectronics and logistics that can be easily integrated into the whole food supply chain, ensuring the highest possible added value at low cost. continue reading...

10 Years Fraunhofer Alliance Food Chain Management

Invitation

We want to invite you to our Symposium “FOOD SYSTEMS – FIT FOR THE FUTURE?” as we are celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Fraunhofer Food Chain Management Alliance.

We will present our innovative approaches and solutions along the entire food value chain and you will have the opportunity to engage in interesting discussions with our experts and guests from industry, authoritative organisations and academia. The goal of the symposium is to offer inspiration and stimuli around the key topics

Consumer Focus: reliably deliver safe quality foods customized to consumer needs
Resource Efficiency: fight losses and waste in the food chain
Transparency and Trust: enable informed, better decisions

to encourage the dialogue about global trends, opportunities and challenges and show existing solutions. It is also a great chance to network with potential partners for future collaborations.

The event will take place on the 13th of November 2017 at the Fraunhofer-Headquarter. We look forward to welcoming you in Munich. The symposium is free of charge.

Follow the link (https://www.fcm.fraunhofer.de/en/anmeldung.html) to the program and registration.

If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact us.

Invitation

Agenda Symposium

Registration for the Symposium

Highlights

Food lab inside your mobile phone

“Food scanner” is becoming a topic of common interest. The European Commission has recognized its relevance and provides funding for the development of the technologies required.

Fraunhofer IPMS filed a patent for a novel device that enables not only food analysis but as well access to quantity and nutrition facts.

A new leading partnership will drive a transformation towards a consumer-centric and resource-efficient food sector

The European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) has announced the winner of a pan-European competition on the Food4Future call: EIT Food. EIT Food will build sustainable end-to-end food supply chains realized through transformative innovation and education initiatives, with a central role for the consumer.