New Entrant netWork: Business models for Innovation
Leuven, 19 November 2019. The KU Leuven Newbie team and Groene Kring organized together a field day on new business models in farming. This event frames within an exchange program between Acades and Groene Kring, both young farmers organisations in respectively Malawi and Flanders. The topic of this exchange program was new business models in […]
For the past few weeks our Belgian partner KU Leuven has been heavily involved with the topic of urban food strategies. Cities are increasingly worried about the food security of their inhabitants and many of them are creating a long term plan to tackle these issues. Belgian experts visited some example cities listed below. Paris […]
Teagasc visit From the 1st until the 3rd of July 2019, 5 Belgian agricultural experts visited Ireland for the first of our Newbie exchanges. This exchange was hosted by the research centre Teagasc with a focus on meeting newbies and getting acquainted with the Irish dairy sector. The experts present for the exchange were – […]
On the 18th and 19th of June, the JRC Foresight organised a workshop on the Future of Farming in Europe. About 30 participants attended this workshop, with a good balance between researchers, farmers and other stakeholders in the food chain. The key question on the table was straightforward: what will farming look like in 2040 […]
Last week was the sustainability week, which did not pass silently at KU Leuven. Many initiatives have been undertaken, among which also the foodprint debate. The Ecoteam of the Social Science Department invited some experts on food and agriculture. Vice Rector Gerard Govers opened the evening, pointing on the importance of a foodprint debate during […]
Thursday 14/03/’19 marks the end of the first Newbie Award Flanders. Eight nominees, all with equally interesting stories, joined the final conference in a Brewery near Leuven. Our final winner was Boer Olivier (EN: “Farmer” Olivier) who displays both a strong social media network, innovative production methods and a marketable story. Olivier joint the family farm. […]
