The Polytechnic of Coimbra (IPC) and the Technological and Professional School of Sicó (ETP Sicó), EQVEGAN partners, organized together with the Confederation of Portuguese Farmers (CONFAGRI), a national event to disseminate the EQVEGAN project, the I-RESTART project and the Pact for Skills initiative. The event was held in at the CONFAGRI facilities in Lisbon (Portugal), […]

TAGEM and Ankara University, partners of the EQVEGAN project, organized at TAGEM premises two days of training for food industry professionals on 2 and 3 October. The trainers were Ahmet Budaklıer and İlkem Demirkesen Mert from TAGEM and Ferruh Erdoğdu, Aziz Tekin and Ertan Anlı from Ankara University. The 30 participants came mainly from the […]

The EQVEGAN project is coming to an end and the consortium held its final meeting in Poznan on 20 October at the Faculty of Food Science and Nutrition (FSN) – Poznan University of Life Sciences, hosted by Prof. Zbigniew Krejpcio and his team. The partners were welcomed by Prof. Dr hab. Piotr Goliński, Vice-Rector for […]

As part of EQVEGAN activities, the Faculty of Food Technology and Biotechnology at the University of Zagreb (FFTB) successfully ran trainings for students and professionals in the field of plant-based food products. The lectures (EQF levels 6 and 7) were held at the Faculty, both online and face-to-face, and the University of Zagreb approved 10 […]

The hybrid event “Challenges & Opportunities for the Plant-based Food Industry: EQVEGAN Project”, held on 4th October 2023, was a success! The event organized jointly by ACTAE (ES) and ISEKI-Food Association (AT), which took place at the Faculty of Pharmacy (University of Basque Country in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain), was also broadcasted online, and gathered stakeholders from […]

The EQVEGAN project was recently presented during the 4th Congress of the Croatian Society of Nutritionists and Dietitians “Nutrition and Dietetics 2023“, which was held in Zagreb on 28 and 29 September, 2023. The oral presentation was given by Jasenka Gajdoš Kljusurić, and the co-authors were Sanja Vidaček Filipec, Ana Kovačić and Anet Režek Jambrak, […]

On 4th July 2023, EQVEGAN organized a workshop as a pre-conference event of the ISEKI-Food Congress in Paris. The workshop was held at the AGROPARISTECH facilities and started with a project introduction by Rui Costa (IPC), followed by the presentation of some of the training modules developed in the project: sustainability (Sanja Vidaček, FFTB), soft […]

On July 3rd, EQVEGAN held its fifth Consortium Meeting at the facilities of the French Network for Food Technology Institutes (ACTIA). It was a hybrid meeting, with some partners face-to-face and others attending online. Christophe Cotillon, ACTIA’s Deputy Director,  started the meeting with some welcome words and presented the network activities to the meeting participants. […]

The 14th edition of the International Congress on Engineering and Food (ICEF 14) took place on 20th and 21st June in Nantes, France. The Congress gathered around 500 participants both from academia and industry from all over the world and covered a wide range of topics around the Congress theme “SUSTAINABLE FOOD MANUFACTURING FOR A […]

As part of the online event “Food standards in a scientific and sustainable environment“, framed within the World Food Safety Day 2023 (#WSFD2023), the European Green Week (#EUGreenWeek) and the European Year of Skills (#EuropeanYearOfSkills), Dr. Carmen de Vega (CEO/Chief Administrative of ACTAE) presented the European Erasmus+ project “EQVEGAN”, which stands for “European Qualifications and […]

The EQVEGAN project presented its activities at the Lakeus kokkaa event, a trade fair aimed at HoReCa professionals and buyers as well as all producers of food and catering services. The half-day long event was organized on May 9 at Seinäjoki Arena and was attended by 57 exhibitors and around 450 visitors. Students of the […]

On 11-12 May 2023 the 11th Edition of Murcia Food Brokerage Event, organised by the Regional Development Agency of the Region of Murcia (INFO) in collaboration with the Technological Centre for the Food and Canning Industry (CTNC), and the Enterprise Europe Network EEN SEIMED framework took place in Murcia, Spain. This free 2-day event gathered […]

Under the title “EQVEGAN Erasmus+ project: the bridge between skills and vegan food industry professionals “, Dr. Carmen de Vega (CEO/Chief Administrative ACTAE), presented our project 17th May at the FOOD 4 FUTURE – BILBAO FOODTECH WORLD SUMMIT, hosted in Bilbao (Spain). The meeting started at 1:30 p.m. with an audience of approximately twenty professionals. […]

European Skills, Competences and Occupations (ESCO) is a multilingual classification system that identifies and categorizes skills, competences, and occupations relevant for the EU labour market and education and training. The ESCO skills pillar (https://esco.ec.europa.eu/en/classification/skill_main) contains more than 13,000 concepts and the ESCO occupations pilar contains more than 3,000 occupations. This system is in a continuous […]

On March 20th 2023, Dr. Natassa Kapetanakou from SEVT, presented EQVEGAN during a workshop entitled “The Draft Regulation on packaging and packaging waste & the challenges for the Food & Drink Industry” within the context of FOOD EXPO 2023 taking place 18−20/03/2023 at the Metropolitan Expo exhibition center in Athens, Greece. The project was disseminated […]

EQVEGAN held 28-29 November its fourth Consortium Meeting at the facilities of the Faculty of Food Technology and Biotechnology (University of Zagreb – Croatia). It was a hybrid meeting, with some partners face-to-face and others attending online.   Work is in progress with the train-the-trainer activities running online, for the four modules on plant-based processing, […]

The EQVEGAN project will organize on June 1st at 10:00 CEST a webinar to present the developed training modules on technical skills, IT skills, green skills and soft skills. Some examples of the module content will be shown by project partners and the complete modules will be available in due time. All food companies, educators, […]

Between 30th March and 1st April EQVEGAN organized its third Consortium Meeting at the facilities of the Turkish General Directorate of Agricultural Research and Policies (TAGEM) in Ankara, Turkey. It was a hybrid meeting, with some partners attending face-to-face and others online. The main activity of the meeting was to perform a train-the trainer workshop […]

The purpose of this event, held online on Friday 18 February 2022, was to launch the large-scale skills partnership for the agri-food ecosystem, that has been set up in the context of the EU Pact for Skills.  EQVEGAN joined the event as one of the first supporting projects of the partnership. The meeting started with […]

EQVEGAN would like to invite you to contribute with your expertise and to benefit from the development of training activities for students and industry professionals. The EQVEGAN project aims to promote the plant-based food industry from the perspective of upskilling the industry workforce in competences related to novel technologies, sustainability, digitalisation, and soft skills. Thus, […]

EQVEGAN held 22-24 September its second Consortium Meeting at the facilities of the Escola Superior Agraria (ESAC, Polytechnic of Coimbra – Portugal). It was a hybrid meeting, with some partners face-to-face and others attending online.     Work is in progress with the updated occupational profiles for the plant-based food industry professionals, the design of […]

  The year 2021 is the International Year of Fruits and Vegetables, and particularly the 7th of June was the World Food Safety Day. Fedalcyta and ISEKI-Food Association celebrated these two initiatives by organising an online seminar with the title “Safety in the international year of fruits and vegetables”. During this event, several experts from […]

Digital transformation is on the rise, with the transition to Industry 4.0 further increasing the need for a digitally skilled workforce. To facilitate an open discussion on digital skills and competencies in the food industry among the project partners, EQVEGAN organized on 5 May an internal online workshop in collaboration with the University of Deusto, […]

The EQVEGAN project started past 7 December 2020 with an online meeting which gathered 14 project partners including companies, industry federations, professional associations, training providers, qualification agencies and governmental institutions from 10 European countries. The three years project is co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union with about one million euros.   A […]