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The article was used to briefly describe ASKFOOD project and to disseminate the second edition of the Reversed Incubator, in order to raise awareness among students and companies interested. 

The article, published in INFORMALIMENTARE - the Newsletter of Federalimentare - is available online at this link  http://www.federalimentare.it/Informalimentare/informalimentare_1_2021.pdf. Informalimentare is sent to a data base of 7.500 contacts.

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The ASKFOOD project, an ERASMUS+ Knowledge Alliance project
(www.askfood.eu), has various objectives that revolve around innovation.
Among these is the creation of digital or "virtual tools" to encourage,
improve and modernize training and education methodologies in the world
of food technologies and adjacent fields. In view of this project, ASKFOOD
has developed a virtual tool named Smart Atlas, which is built on a series
of resources (MOOCs, research centers, results of European projects, training centers, acceleration
programs, crowdfunding, startups and innovation marketplaces that act as a platform for the
exchange of innovation).
The tool is useful for sharing your best practice or products, or to browse what others in the food
and food-related sector are sharing and create your network.
The Smart Atlas operates at an EU and International level, and information is available for operators
or interested persons with the aim of promoting, mapping and tracing every initiative and good
practice that operates towards innovation.
To enter and navigate the Smart Atlas, follow the link: https://www.askfood.eu/tools/smart-atlas/
Any person, institution, organization or association willing to contribute their good practices or
initiatives in the Smart Atlas can do so by following the link:
https://www.askfood.eu/tools/smart-atlas/good-practices-template/

ASKFOOD is an ERASMUS+ Knowledge Alliance project (www.askfood.eu)
aimed to create a permanent knowledge alliance between businesses and
Higher Education Institutions in the food-related sectors and a new
«educational» eco-system for innovation and sustainability of the food
system. Within the project, activities aimed to evaluate the status of
innovative teaching methodologies and implement new teaching
methodologies to develop entrepreneurial skills and competences in students of food-related study
programs have been planned and some are currently under testing.
The general name “Garage” and related declinations (“Garage entrepreneur”, “Start-Up Garage”,
“Garage Lab”) refers to a series of training programs and approaches aimed at students who want to
develop their entrepreneurial skills in an interactive and guided environment (in general, within
academia or related incubators or spin-offs). In some countries, they could have other names like the
Startup Sauna (Finland), StartHub (Wageningen Uni. & Res) and Contamination Labs (Italy). A “Garage”
is, in general, a community and physical space for students interested in entrepreneurship to
experience first-hand the grit and resilience it takes to start and grow a company. By the guidance of
teachers or mentors, students learn skills like co-creation, leadership, networking, and building a
team, and get a “hands-on” experience from formulating a business idea up to creating a first pitch.
The ASKFOOD project is launching a survey at the EU and international level to collect information
on existing university “Garage” lab experiences, evaluate communalities in the methodologies,
applied best practices and assessment tools. Results will be used to compare the experiences with
other innovative entrepreneurial training methodologies currently under piloting in the ASKFOOD
project.
The link to the survey is : https://www.askfood.eu/questionnaire/garage-labs-intro
Other info about the “Garage” labs methodological approach is available at:
https://www.askfood.eu/questionnaire/garage-labs
For more information about the ASKFOOD project and activities, please contact the Scientific
Coordinator of the project, Professor Paola Pittia of the University of Teramo at (ppittia@unite.it).
Deadline to fill in the survey: 5 July 2020

The 2nd Consortium meeting of the ASKFood Project was organised on 15-16 October 2018
by Cassiopea and University of Teramo at the Palazzo Isimbardi in Milan, Italy. The
participants had the unique opportunity to visit this 16th-century historic building and admire
not only its architecture but also its impressive frescoes by famous Italian painters.
On the first day, the project partners presented and discussed extensively the status of their
tasks, as well as the open issues and the next steps of the ASKFood Project. ISEKI-Food
Association, as the leader of the ASKFood Permanent Alliance, was represented by Foteini
Chrysanthopoulou.
On the second day, a workshop with title, “Innovative teaching methodologies to enhance
competences of professionals in the food sector: Academia & Business perspectives” was held
and the participants had the chance to interact and exchange ideas with the invited speakers.
The 2-day meeting was successfully completed with food for thought and promising plans for
the future of innovative teaching.
You can find more information about the ASKFood Project at https://www.askfood.eu/.

The article - published in the newsletter of Federalimentare -  briefly introduces the ASKFOOD project, its consortium, and its main goals.

Then, it focuses on new tools recently implemented online, that is to say, the Forecast Aggregator, Smart Atlas, and Reversed Incubator. They are thoroughly explained in details and for each tool, a hyperlink was created. In addition to this, the article gives an overview of the other goals to be reached in the next months.

Finally, to give all readers the possibility to get further info about ASKFOOD, hyperlinks to ASKFOOD Social Media and website were added.

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The article is available at this link http://www.federalimentare.it/Informalimentare/informalimentare_2_2020.pdf on page n. 4. InformAlimentare reaches more than 7.000 users (Academia, Industry professionals, sectorial associations, Institutions, etc.).

WISSEN SCHAFFT VORSPRUNG

DAS PROJEKT EINER WISSENSALLIANZ MIT DEM TITEL ASKFOOD WURDE IM RAHMEN DER ERASMUS+ KNOWLEDGE ALLIANZ DER EUROPÄISCHEN UNION GESTARTET. ES STEHT FÜR ALLIANCE FOR SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE TO WIDEN FOOD SECTOR-RELATED OPEN INNOVATION, OPTIMIZATION AND DEVELOPMENT.
 

An article for the ASKFOOD tools (The Forecast Aggregator, The Smart Atlas & reversed Incubator)