Here below are the latest projects for the Current and the Future cooking projects. |
A successful lever to this still traditional sector!
Ready for the global market?
- The main barriers remain with the security/confidentiality of the systems for which both the consumer and the industrialist have to be convinced and provided a safer protection.
- Basic access to Information Technology is no longer a barrier in all European countries
- ICT is not only software and hardware but also all the services around.
- ICT is more and more embedded: we also have now "specific food ICT" with nano-sensors included in food or in cloth wear.
- ICT is developing rapidly and jumping steps: indication of EAN coding system used, waiting for more dynamic, interactive and global/integrated intelligent labelling allowing full traceability of products and user-friendly to answer consumers' needs.
Read more: food-MAC study 2: ICT - Information & Communication Technologies in agro-food sector
Manufacturers and Producers in the European food sector need to innovate in order to survive in today’s competitive European food market.
Critical success factors:
Innovation needs a combination of ingredients most SMEs of the food sector have to find outside at transnational, national and/or regional levels:
Toward a European Consumer Environment
The consumer issues are adequately structured in each country and well supported by both governmental and private organizations and programmes. Some countries have a long tradition on consumer rights and structures and very well established institutions, with Finland, France, Germany and Sweden showing a leading role. Some other countries, especially those who have recently joined the EU, are in the period of reorganization of their authorities and structures. The same applies for the actors involved in the consumer protection issues.
Read more: food-MAC study 4: Consumer Needs & Preferences in agro-food sector
The European food industry is operating in a challenging operating environment in which companies must be able to analyse and identify their own competitive edges in a more efficient way. Foresight provides enterprises with a useful tool to analyse the future of their socio-economic environment. Foresight can be used for wide variety of purposes, as it can support strategic decision-making on the national, regional, industry or company level.
Read more: food-MAC study 5: Foresight & Anticipation tools in agro-food sector
Training needs are driven by different requirements: on one hand by national and European legislation and on the other hand by business competition, economic growth and innovative technology. The solutions can only be found through Multi-Actor, transversal and transnational Cooperation.
Read more: food-MAC study 6: Training Needs in the agro-food sector