1 FOOD INNOVATION NETWORK EUROPE

2 Building a EU network of regional Food clusters to stimulate RTD investments FOOD INNOVATION NETWORK EUROPE

3 Eight regions Food ValleyNL Øresund food region DK/SE RogalandNO Castilla y LeonES FlandersBE Wielkopolska PL ScotlandUK Emilia RomagnaI

4 Nine Partners Ontwikkelingsmaatschappij Oost Nederland NV Öresund Food Network IRIS Ghent University ASTER Centuria RIT Poznan Science and Technology Park Scottish Enterprise CARTIF

5 FINE NETWORK FINE PARTICIPANT Region with emerging agrofood profile Involve and activate Research organisations universities Policy makers & governmental org. Agrofood companies

6 Connecting regional food initiatives

7 Objectives Objective 1 “To develop strategies and policies enhancing investments for creating competitive and innovative regional [food] clusters with growing rates of RTD investment by mobilisation of relevant stakeholders across the value chain including policy makers.” Objective 2 “To develop a sustainable collaborative [food] RTD Action Programme with a view of contributing to the realisation of Lisbon strategy.

8 Project details Duration: 2 years (2006/2007) Total budget: € ,- Funding: EU Sixth Framework Programme Support for the coherent development of policies Regions of knowledge 2.

9 Results (short list) 1.SWOT analysis eight regions: agrofood and RTD policy profile 2.Recommendations RTD policy on EU, national and regional level to stimulate RTD investements 3.FINE Action Programme for interregional cooperation on food RTD: development of 10 interregional RTD projects

10 Ambition Building a lasting network of EU food regions Developing interregional RTD projects in Food Learning from each other –policy, – innovation instruments – regional food networks

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