New research program of the Austrian Competence Center for Feed and Food Quality, Safety and Innovation (FFoQSI) approved by the FFG!
We look 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 management)
Tulln on the Danube (OTS) – The Austrian Competence Center for Feed and Food Quality, Safety & Innovation (FFoQSI) is starting the next funding phase from 2025 to 2028 as planned. The funding application with an application volume of 19.4 million euros was submitted within the framework of the Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG ) of the COMET program. An international jury of experts approved this at the end of June 2024.
Research center for sustainable and safe food production
The Austrian Competence Center for Feed and Food Quality, Safety & Innovation, called 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 topic is of enormous importance and accompanies the current change towards “future-fit” food production of tomorrow. For this reason, the FFoQSI research center has 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 program includes, for example, projects relating to the optimized control of food for pathogens, sustainable field management, alternative food packaging or the use of artificial intelligence and autonomous machines in agriculture. FFoQSI contributes to no less than seven of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) issued by the UN.
Well-known corporate partners & cutting-edge scientific research
The COMET-K1 competence center FFoQSI is funded by the Austrian federal ministries BMK, BMDW and the federal states of Lower Austria, Upper Austria and Vienna as part of COMET – Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies. The COMET program is managed by the FFG. The center’s shareholders and scientific partners are the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences of Upper Austria. The research locations extend from Upper Austria through Lower Austria to Vienna. Other well-known scientific partners in the research program include the Austrian Institute of Technology (AIT), the Vienna University of Technology (TUW), the Research Center Non Destructive Testing (RECENDT) and the South Korean Gyeongsang National University. Fischer Brot, SAN Agrow, Haubis, Barilla, DSM-Firmenich and AGRANA are part of the future consortium as corporate partners.
Dr. Jürgen Marchart (FFoQSI management):
“We look 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.
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