Newsletter N° 3
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SuperGREENLABELFoods final partner meeting and conference
“Harmonization & Certification of Superfoods” in Palermo
The SGLF project consortium met on 28th of June in CSC Danilo Dolci office in Palermo for the last time to discuss the final steps of project. The partners from Greece, Spain and Italy talked about all the Intellectual Outputs developed during the project and organised the last tasks to complete the project, in particular final reporting.
On the 29th of June 2019, in the wonderful location of Caccamo Castle near Palermo the SGLF consortium presented the results of the project to a wide audience of experts and producers from Spain, Greece and Italy. More than 50 people attended the final event in Caccamo.
Eleni Maloupa, coordinator of the project, Director of the Institute of Plant Breeding and Genetic Resources (Hellenic Agricultural Organization), started by presenting the project idea and the importance of the ex situ conservation of genetic resources and local traditional varieties as well as the role of Botanic Gardens towards awareness and environmental education. She focused on the importance of training the trainers and then she presented the seminar made in Greece in the facilities of the Laboratory for the Conservation and Evaluation of Native Crops for Aromatic and Medicinal Crops and Small Forest Fruits.
The final event also showcased some superfoods from Spain, Greece and Italy with a small exhibition of aromatic herbs (calendula, oregano, lavender, sage etc. etc.) and superfoods such as organic wheats from ancient grains, sea buckthorn, essential oils.
The event was closed by the presentation of some enterprises from different parts of Sicily and also from Navarra (Spain) and Greece.
In the case of Spain, the exhibition included a selection of aromatic plants in different formats produced and elaborated by Josenea.
This organisation organically grows on the Borda Blanca farm in Lumbier (Navarra), which has around 12 hectares of production destined to Medical and Aromatic Plants (MAP) and a dryer to transform them and proceed to their subsequent commercial processing and sale.
The high quality of its products allows the organisation to export all over the world offering different consumption alternatives adapted to homes, restaurants and specialized sales. It also provides an important social value. The company is a Social Insertion Center that works with people with problems of access to the labor market, providing an opportunity to develop and give dignity their lives.
During the break attendants had the possibility to taste and get to know mixtures of medicinal and aromatic herbs with different therapeutic uses.
Also visits of the Spanish colleagues to the Italian farmers had been made which helped a lot networking and the transfer of experience.
This visit to Sicilian farmers allowed sharing cultivation techniques, handling of different native varieties, as well as exchanging transformation processes and used machinery. The objective was to get up close and personal the cultivation model implemented in Sicily and to open up opportunities for farmers in Navarre in this sector.
Finally both groups showed the great opportunity to further deepen these exchanges of good practices and have a frame of reference to enhance the cultivation and marketing of MAP.
SuperGREENLABELFoods has implemented the following activities:
- Scientific desk research on skills and regulation framework of cultivators of super foods and aromatic-medicinal herbs;
- Statistical analysis about the skills and training capacity of agriculturists and superfoods/ aromatic herbs processors;
- Identification of ICT skills during the agriculturists professional development
- Establishment of common certification policies and production on production, processing and packaging of super foods and / or aromatic herbs;
- Training activities to improve and certify competences and skills of the target involved by the project.
The project produced these results:
- Research on Defining the skills & regulation framework of agriculturists/ cultivators of super-foods & aromatic-medicinal herbs
- Guidebook on Fundamental Principles of vertical integration production of super-foods and aromatic-medicinal herbs
- Certification practices for agriculturists, producers & processing food industries of super foods and aromatic- medicinal herbs
- Educational videos of the training sessions
- ICT training videos
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Please check our website to have more information on the project consortium.
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The SuperGREENLABELFoods project involves six partners from three different countries (Greece, Italy and Spain) and aims at providing innovative methodologies to people directly involved with cultivation, collection, production, packaging and promotion of super-foods, aromatic-medical herbs and forest fruits, in order to enhance their basic professional skills as their ICT skills, through vocational training activities, strengthening their competitiveness on the market together with their products.
The partners of the project are:
- Coordinator: Hellenic Agricultural Organisation Demeter (Greece);
- Fundación Empresa- Universidad Gallega (Spain);
- UAGN – Union de Agricultores y Ganaderos de Navarra (Spain);
- Centro per lo Sviluppo Creativo “Danilo Dolci” (Italy);
- Ergasia Ekpaideftiki Anonymi Etairia (Greece);
- Rezos Brands SA (Greece).
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