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FPQC is participating in COSME project AgriFoodX5.0

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The European Innovation Council and SMEs Executive Agency (EISMEA) has signed grant agreement with the five-partner consortium. The grant is awarded for the action entitled “Cluster Excellence Improvement through cluster Exchange for Industry 5.0 (AgriFoodX5.0)”

The Project implementation started on 1st of February 2022 and its duration is 24 months. 

Project budget:
Grant amount: EUR 499 168.74
Total budget: EUR 650 403.41

The AgriFood5X.0 project is composed by 5 organizations from 4 EU countries.

AgrifoodX5.0 is EU co-funded project that aims:

  • To strengthen cluster management excellence
  • To facilitate exchanges and strategic partnering between clusters and specialized eco-systems across Europe;
  • To offer to the cluster’s SMEs and integrated program and services based on excellence to drive and catalyze industry 5.0 concept in the food sector;
  • The specific objective of AgrifoodX 5.0 is to enhance the collaboration, networking and learning of clusters organizations and their members. 

 
Direct beneficiaries:

  • Agriculture and Food Clusters and its coordinators/managers;
  • SMEs (SMEs members of the partnerships and also other SMEs from other clusters related to the agri-food and ICT/digital solution sector);
  • Other European agri-food and ICT digital solutions clusters members. 

 
Indirect beneficiaries:

  • Other European Clusters;
  • Regional/national authorities and policy makers.

 
Outcomes of the project for direct and indirect beneficiaries

  1. AgriFoodX5.0 partner members will have an access to new services (cluster service catalogue) related to following topics developed during the project: 
    • Growth and innovation potential;
    • Value chain;
    • Skill needs;
    • Cross sectoral opportunities. 
  2. Access to trainings for Project partners managers on following topics: 
    • Digital transformation;
    • Creative economy;
    • Sustainability;
    • Circular economy.
  3. Share experience on ESCA labelling. 
  4. Participating at C2C level workshops to share good practices of helping cluster organisations to team up at European level, 20 organisations will benefit from partnering counties.
  5. Participating knowledge sharing exchange workshop to increase knowledge about hackathons. 
  6. Participation in hackathon solving agrifood and 5.0 industry challenges.
  7. Participation in 4 different matchmaking events hybrid type organised in Lithuania, Latvia, Spain and Portugal.
  8. Participate in exchanges and strategic partnering between clusters and specialized eco-systems across Europe through implementing “ClusterXchange” scheme.

 
This document was funded by the European Union’s COSME Programme

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