Success for FFoQSI
COMET-decision is positive!
06/2024. The Austrian Competence Centre for Feed and Food Quality, Safety & Innovation (FFoQSI for short) is starting the next funding phase from 2025 to 2028 as planned. The funding application with an application volume of EUR 19.4 million was submitted as part of the COMET program managed by the Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG). An international jury of experts approved it at the end of June 2024.
Research center for sustainable and safe food production
The Austrian Competence Centre for Feed and Food Quality, Safety & Innovation, known as FFoQSI, was founded in 2017 as a COMET-K1 center - with the aim of making the domestic production of food and feed safer and more sustainable through technological innovations. This complex subject area is of enormous importance and accompanies the current change towards a "future-proof" food production of tomorrow. For this reason, the FFoQSI research center presents itself in a modular structure that combines the areas of food technology, sustainability, sensor-based monitoring concepts and food hygiene, as well as the digitalization of production processes.
The 2025-2028 research programme includes, for example, projects relating to the optimized control of food for pathogens, sustainable field management, alternative food packaging and the use of artificial intelligence and autonomous machines in agriculture. FFoQSI contributes to no fewer than seven of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Renowned corporate partners & top scientific research
The COMET-K1 Competence Center FFoQSI is funded within COMET - Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies by the Austrian Federal Ministries BMK, BMDW and the provinces of Lower Austria, Upper Austria and Vienna. The COMET program is managed by the FFG. The University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences and the FH Upper Austria act as shareholders and scientific partners of the center. The research locations extend from Upper Austria to Lower Austria and Vienna. Other renowned scientific partners in the research program include the Austrian Institute Of Technology (AIT), the Technical University of Vienna (TUW), the Research Center Non Destructive Testing (RECENDT) and the South Korean Gyeongsang National University. Corporate partners in the future consortium include Fischer Brot, SAN Agrow, Haubis, Barilla, DSM-Firmenich and AGRANA.
„We are looking forward to starting another successful funding period with strong collaborations and scientific excellence. Together with our scientific and corporate partners, we will continue to actively shape the sustainable and safe food production of the future with our innovative strength.“
Dr. Jürgen Marchart (FFoQSI Managing Director)
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