Queen's University of Belfast
Profile
Queen’s University Belfast is one of the leading universities in the UK and Ireland with a distinguished heritage and history. Today, Queen’s is ranked in the top 173 universities in the world (QS World Rankings 2020), with the second highest ranking in Ireland. The Institute for Global Food Security (IGFS) specialising in the key areas of the integrity of global food supply, farms of the future and nutritional challenges for the 21st Century.
Competences & Capabilities
IGFS is multi-disciplinary; researchers collaborate across schools and faculties (Chemistry, Pharmacy, Geography, Medicine, Biological Sciences) and specialisms including sustainability, nutrition, agriculture & food safety. They study soil, crops, water and marine life, animal feed and animal welfare to promote higher standards. They trace chemicals (both natural and man made) and investigate the nutritional value of foods and the psychology of consumer choices.
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Partner in the following EIT Food projects
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projectLearn how agri-food supply chains deal with crises and get practical advice on how you can minimise disruption during COVID-19.
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Revolutionising the Food Chain with Technology
2020 > 2023 -
projectMany vegetables including sweet corn, artichokes, potato and cabbage (e.g. Brussels sprouts) are not holistically used in food production although they are safe to consume (without or with further processing). In some cases, more than 50%…
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projectWe are proposing that a labelling system such as the front-of-pack nutrition wheel could offer an opportunity for the transparency information relating to sustainability indicators to be displayed on food packaging to aid communication…
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projectThe “EIT Food School Network” third year activities are focused on the organisation of four stakeholder workshops (school staff, key organisations involved in regulating schools, academics and policy makers). Due to the current… -
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projectThe Curating Citizen Engagement project will revolutionise our way of solving grand societal challenges by creating a platform for massive public involvement and knowledge generation, specifically targeting food-related issues.
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Global Food Venture Programme
2018 > 2025projectUniting Industry & Academia to Empower the Next Generation of Agrifood & Biotech Innovators -
projectFish is a healthy nutritional food. The increasing global market demand coupled with fish-food scandals, has generated a high level of safety concerns around fish consumption.
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projectThe organic food supply system in Europe must rank among one of the most important in terms of trust. Our citizens make purchasing choices around organic food based on a wide range of issues which include sustainability, ethics, food…
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projectThis 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…
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Animal Feed Production: Feed Quality & Safety
2019 > 2023projectExplore animal feed manufacturing, and learn the best processes and systems for optimising animal feed quality and safety. -
Focus on Farmers
2019projectAgricultural technologies and innovations offer significant opportunities to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of farm businesses, through optimised yields, reduced environmental impact and increased profitability. -
projectStudents can make use of scientific and educational toolbox to create solutions for the practice along the food chain and possibilities for sustainable waste management.
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projectThe Food Tech Transition Summer School 2019 is the outcome of an academic partnership between Universität Hohenheim as main partner, and Queen's University Belfast and University of Cambridge, together with industrial partner Energy Pulse.
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projectThe main objectives of the SME workshops are an innovation process around “sustainable food production” to identify challenges and solutions in an accelerated innovation process building on the experiences of a previous project.
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projectGlobal food supply chains are increasingly encountering considerable problems impacting on safety and sustainability affecting the food industry and reducing consumer trust.
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Master in Food Systems
2019 > 2024projectDevelop 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. -
Inspire Programme
2021 > 2025 -
projectThe project will provide information on how the corona crisis will lead to changes in consumer behaviour.
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Safelivery
2020projectSafelivery will develop innovative food delivery services and protocols to reduce the risk of surface and packaging contamination of “Ready To Eat Foods” with the COVID-19 virus and other agents -
An Introduction to Food Science
2020 > 2023projectDiscover the fascinating world of food science and feel empowered to make safe, healthy, and sustainable food choices. -
WeValueFood 2020
2019 > 2020projectWeValueFood (2-year project) has educated, engaged and advanced the young Europeans’ knowledge of and appreciation of food, thereby empowering the next generations to make the best choices about the food that they eat. -
projectCreating smarter and simpler food value chains across Europe requires an infrastructure and capacity to stimulate and support innovation and entrepreneurship.
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projectIncreasing consumer trust in the food system inspiring citizens to become change agents as amateur scientists.
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MAKEit
2019 > 2020projectTo create smarter and simpler food value chains across Europe we need to develop both infrastructure and capacity which stimulate and supports innovation and entrepreneurship. -
projectThe aim of the SME workshops is to identify contemporary challenges and solutions in the poultry industry dedicated to feed manufacturers, advisors, farmers and employees in poultry factories, as well as managers responsible for the…
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projectWe aim to design innovation led packaging for red meat, fish & poultry made from material derived from agrifood waste. The issue of waste plastic in the food industry has led to strong consumer demand for producers & retailers to…
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projectMycotoxins can significantly reduce food quality, especially in wheat production.
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projectRice is a primary carbohydrate staple but is high in carcinogen inorganic arsenic (Asi) & soluble starch
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projectAre you ready to bring your ideas for a sustainable food supply chain to life? Following the success of last year’s Winter School, Queen’s University Belfast, Technical University of Munich and University of Cambridge will come together to…
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Resilient Agriculture Think & Do Tank
2025 > 2026projectThe EIT Food Resilient Agriculture Think & Do Tank is a new initiative that harnesses EIT Food’s unique strengths in convening stakeholders and driving systemic change across the agrifood sector. It brings together strategic and…
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Fish is a healthy nutritional food. The increasing global market demand coupled with fish-food scandals, has generated a high level of safety concerns around fish consumption.
project
The organic food supply system in Europe must rank among one of the most important in terms of trust. Our citizens make purchasing choices around organic food based on a wide range of issues which include sustainability, ethics, food…
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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…
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Explore animal feed manufacturing, and learn the best processes and systems for optimising animal feed quality and safety.
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Agricultural technologies and innovations offer significant opportunities to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of farm businesses, through optimised yields, reduced environmental impact and increased profitability.
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Students can make use of scientific and educational toolbox to create solutions for the practice along the food chain and possibilities for sustainable waste management.
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The Food Tech Transition Summer School 2019 is the outcome of an academic partnership between Universität Hohenheim as main partner, and Queen's University Belfast and University of Cambridge, together with industrial partner Energy Pulse.
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The main objectives of the SME workshops are an innovation process around “sustainable food production” to identify challenges and solutions in an accelerated innovation process building on the experiences of a previous project.
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Global food supply chains are increasingly encountering considerable problems impacting on safety and sustainability affecting the food industry and reducing consumer trust.
Master in Food Systems
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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.
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Discover the fascinating world of food science and feel empowered to make safe, healthy, and sustainable food choices.
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project
Creating smarter and simpler food value chains across Europe requires an infrastructure and capacity to stimulate and support innovation and entrepreneurship.
project
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The aim of the SME workshops is to identify contemporary challenges and solutions in the poultry industry dedicated to feed manufacturers, advisors, farmers and employees in poultry factories, as well as managers responsible for the…
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