This first meeting of project partners concentrated on the key goals for the project’s success, focusing on the need to gather opinions from academic and industry experts to meet the goals of strengthening international links and boosting innovation and entrepreneurship in rural communities.
The project, which will last for 26 months, will examine current food supply chains in Europe in a bid to identify innovative ways to work and develop methods to shorten food supply process (farm to folk) by cutting costs for the small producer and fostering on the ground collaboration.
Speaking on the launch, CEJA President Alan Jagoe called the project “a great opportunity to show young farmers as the innovative, forward thinking and progressive force for the future of agriculture at a National and a European level.”
Commencing January 2017, CEF will pilot a food training initiative scheme within Europe, as well as hosting a series of events and surveys with a core theme of enterprise and education.
The project will include a number of training courses for food producers aimed at providing ‘soft’ skills to empower them to keep control of their business, promote innovation, and create employment. It will also feature the development of an online web portal aimed at encouraging the exchange of knowledge and best practices between education and enterprises.
CEJA joins this project alongside Polish Beef Association (Poland), Galway - Mayo Institute of Technology (Ireland), and the University of Bedfordshire (UK)
More information is available on the CEJA website.
