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 […]