QUEEN’S UNIVERSITY OF BELFAST
Profile
The Institute for Global Food Security (IGFS) is part of Queen’s University of Belfast, specialising in the key areas of the integrity of global food supply, farms of the future and nutritional challenges for the 21st Century. IGFS plays a major role in delivering safe, sustainable and authentic food to the world’s growing population, and has become globally recognised for its excellence in research and education.
Competences & Capabilities
We drive research, educate tomorrow’s leaders and create a culture of entrepreneurship, through:
- International research and collaborations in food safety and food integrity
- Expertise in animal nutrition, behaviour, welfare and precision farming
- Facilities for Genomics, Imaging, Mass Spectrometry and Bioinformatics research
- Big data management centre with unique big data access to explore links between diet, behaviour and health
- Access to dietary research, especially in targeted and precision nutrition
- Number 1 in the UK in research intensity in Agriculture, Veterinary and Food Science
Northern Ireland Technology Centre, Queen’s University of Belfast, Cloreen Park, Belfast BT9 5HN, United Kingdom
Contact
Stephane Durand
s.durand@qub.ac.uk
+44 289 097 5657
Partner in the following EIT Food projects
Farm to Fork: Sustainable food production in a changing environment
This online course focuses on threats to global food security & consider key challenges which need to be overcome in order to maintain healthy & sustainable food supplies for consumer wellbeing in both the developing and developed world
Seedbed Incubator
SEEDBED APPLICATIONS OPEN FROM MONDAY 13TH JANUARY - SUNDAY 15TH MARCH This multi-location Launch programme trains and supports teams over a six-month period to help them better understand the needs of their customers and validate their business ideas
An Introduction to Food Systems: Scientific, Technical and Socioeconomic Principles to Facilitate the Creation of Food Value Networks
The course will focus on: An Introduction to Food Systems ; Fundamentals of System Sciences ; Food System Nodes I: Production & Processing ; and Food System Nodes II: Distribution and Consumption, Side Streams, Food Integrity Who should join the course Professionals in the food and agriculture sector (i
Food tech transitions: reconnecting agrifood, technology, and society
Funded in collaboration with EIT Food, the Summer School is the outcome of the partnership between both academic and industrial partners: Universität Hohenheim, Queens' University Belfast and Cambridge University, together with Energy Pulse Systems and Puratos
From waste to worth: use of plant residues
Programme description The students teams built up an extendible prototype of a database including (1) occurrence of plant waste material (e
Consumer and Manufacturing Driven Alternative Packaging Solutions from Agrifood Waste Streams
Suitable materials for meat, fish & poultry have constraints such as the need for an oxygen barrier & stability at higher temperatures, so wide-scale use of alternatives has so far been low
The EIT Food School Network: Integrating solutions to improve eating habits and reduce food wastage
The approaches being developed are different for each age-group, focusing on the interventions most appropriate and useful at each developmental stage
CHAMPP: Contemporary challenges and issues of the poultry production sector
There is a need to highlight at the national and international level current challenges in this sector by providing support to SMEs through knowledge transfer in e
WE Lead Food
The WE Lead food programme is designed to equip you with the tools to make that difference and achieve results
Focus on Farmers
However, farmer adoption of these technologies is often limited and therefore the benefits are not realised
SME Workshop: Supporting SMEs for new business opportunities-2019
The first step is a creative problem-solving process to identify the challenges and needs of SMEs related to sustainable food production in Europe
Food Fortress for raw materials and ingredients in Europe – Gaining Consumer trust through transparency
This project aims at gaining consumer trust through improving the transparency of the supply chain using rapid-reactive and proactive risk management using a combination of technologies such as predictive analytics and multi-analytical tests
Improving trust on fish chain: Rapid and portable monitoring tools for a better control of whitefish
This project provides three rapid, hand-held tools for enhancing the trust in fish products
Food System Master of Science Programme
Develop in-depth knowledge about food systems through studying consecutively at three distinct European academic institutions and use your knowledge to drive the future transformation of the food system
WeValueFood
Novel approaches will be used to engage with next generation audiences: students from primary school to university
The development of organic supply chains that drive fair, transparent and healthy options for the consumer
On a global basis the amount of fraud occurring in the organic supply system is growing rapidly and issues are appearing on a weekly basis
Global Food Venture Programme
The Global Food Venture Programme enables highly qualified PhD students from across Europe to turn their innovative research into successful business propositions
MAKEit
We will achieve this by: Convening a network of ‘maker spaces’, providing collaborative spaces to make, learn, explore and share, for MAKEathons and further prototyping resources; Designing and delivering a series of MAKEathons across Europe where different stakeholders come together to find solutions to identified industry challenges in specific value chains; Training professionals to be able to develop entrepreneurial capabilities across the food value chain in Europe