Final Report Summary - POLFOOD (Research and innovation in food technologies - brokering European partnership and transfer of knowledge to Poland by series of practical workshops)
POLFOOD kept the initial idea and plan at a very simple coherent level to gain the most effect towards promotion participation of Polish entities in the Sixth Framework Programme (FP6) Priority 5 'Food quality and safety'. The partners gained already a significant effort for raising awareness among research community but they have noticed that the main obstacle to overcome is to help the potential participants to establish working contacts with leading and experienced European institutions. In order to overcome this obstacle in the project was foreseen organisation five two-day workshops. Each was organised in a different Polish region, each of regional partners was responsible for organisation of one. The choice was based on the specificity of each region in relation and the expertise available. The workshops was opened for participation also for the other regions therefore the partners exchanged information about the experts form their region that could have been invited for all workshops, they also promoted the workshops as a whole set giving opportunity to potential participant to choose the most interesting event.
The subject matter of the first day was directed to all groups of participants. It had more theoretical nature and consisted of presentation of the EU projects related with the workshop's topic, the FP6 participating opportunities, relevant research achievements and presentation of research, technological development and innovation (RTDI) leaders in Poland, and finally the possibility to discuss.
The second day was more practical, dedicated especially to the SMEs, giving them practical knowledge that could be implemented in their production practice. Parallel bilateral meetings enabling establishing contacts and future cooperation between SMEs and research partners took place. Those meetings were prearranged by the organisers on the basis of the questionnaires sent by the workshops' participants together with their application form.
Beside the workshop organisation each partner collected cooperation profiles in the website database. It served for promoting Associated Candidate Countries researchers abroad, setting up bilateral meetings and being a tool for contacting with future FP6 coordinators. Additionally each partner gave consultations to workshop participations, searched partners and advised researchers in topic selecting within 'Food quality and safety' priority.
The subject matter of the first day was directed to all groups of participants. It had more theoretical nature and consisted of presentation of the EU projects related with the workshop's topic, the FP6 participating opportunities, relevant research achievements and presentation of research, technological development and innovation (RTDI) leaders in Poland, and finally the possibility to discuss.
The second day was more practical, dedicated especially to the SMEs, giving them practical knowledge that could be implemented in their production practice. Parallel bilateral meetings enabling establishing contacts and future cooperation between SMEs and research partners took place. Those meetings were prearranged by the organisers on the basis of the questionnaires sent by the workshops' participants together with their application form.
Beside the workshop organisation each partner collected cooperation profiles in the website database. It served for promoting Associated Candidate Countries researchers abroad, setting up bilateral meetings and being a tool for contacting with future FP6 coordinators. Additionally each partner gave consultations to workshop participations, searched partners and advised researchers in topic selecting within 'Food quality and safety' priority.