The Municipality of Idanha-a-Nova receives, as of this month of October, the FoodLAB CoLAB project.
This is a Collaborative Laboratory, involving a total of 16 entities, coordinated by BGI – Building Global Innovators -, in partnership with the Municipality of Idanha-a-Nova.
The project, which intends to present the first results in the last quarter of 2020, aims to test technologies to improve food production processes. In this sense, the also called Association for Innovation in Sustainable Food, intends to combine knowledge, through academia, with the needs of the industry.
Gonçalo Amorim, executive director of BGI, explaining to Rádio Castelo Branco the concept and objectives of this Collaborative Laboratory, implemented in the village of Idanha-a-Nova.
In the last 40 years “we have done a great job of feeding, from the point of view of intensifying food production, where we guarantee that the entire population has food”. But, on the other hand, Gonçalo Amorim states that “the cost of this was a brutal cost, from the point of view of biodiversity”. A problem that CoLAB now wants to address.
The Collaborative Laboratory is a “very big ambition” for the municipality of Idanha-a-Nova. A wish that the Municipality has managed to foster with BGI in the last 3 years, as revealed by the Mayor, Armindo Jacinto.
FoodLAB intends to put Portugal at the forefront of circular low-carbon food production systems. The Collaborative Laboratory is already installed in Idanha-a-Nova and involves a total of 16 entities, including BGI, the Câmara de Idanha, several food companies and the academy, through the Polytechnic Institutes of Castelo Branco, Guarda and Viseu, and the University of Beira Interior.
ARAA-PT, with CDR, joined CoLab on January 15th, 2020, as the 17th member.mo membro.
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