Creator

Commenting Paula's last note

Here are my comments (in red)  on Paula's last note

"In my opinion, we should start filling up the CREATOR proposal template as soon as possible. But before that, we should clarify which is the objective of our proposal and the role of each of us, because I think is still not so clear (at least not for me) and because we are organizations with different natures and profiles in each region.
As far as I understood, our  project will  tackle some of the challenges identified in relation to the particular needs of the elderly people regarding food and it will  aim at improving the efficiency of the innovation process looking for new formulas to bring knowledge to the food industry in order to develop new products/services/ companies that meet the needs of an increasingly ageing population. In this sense, the final target will be food-related  companies and entrepreneurs ?.Yes, but also the BSO ( business support aorganizations) which have to  assist and support those targets.
Regarding PRODINTEC´s role our main contribution in WP3 could be to develop guidelines of best practices  in Europe absolutely  and new opportunities detected regarding food packaging covering the needs of the elderly and the implementation of "design for all" methodologies in product design (transferring these tools ?) .  We can also do similar things regarding Eco-design, but, now I don´t see the direct connection of this methodology with food and ageing people Yes, I think that due to the fact that we have chosen to to target a smaller domain ( food domain versus general business domains), the ecodesign concern is not anymore valid…
I guess we are the only partner working on that, so there won´t be an internal exchange of experiences with other partners. Am I right?  Other areas could be nutrition for the elderly? but we only have one partner working on that as well? Here in Lorraine we are working on that too !!
I think that the best way is that the lead partcipants (Florence and Francois) start preparing the common template to be shared and defining the project => we are working here on this as you are proposing with the information of the partners, identifying possible roles and concrete areas to be analized. Then, the rest of the partners can give feed back, possible outputs, taks  and new ideas, and finally elaborate the budget. OK here in Lorraine
Please let me know what you think "

I hope to be able with Florence to send you a version 0 of the job at the middle of august
François

Proposal template

Dear all,

In my opinion, we should start filling up the CREATOR proposal template as soon as possible. But before that, we should clarify which is the objective of our proposal and the role of each of us, because I think is still not so clear (at least not for me) and because we are organizations with different natures and profiles in each region.
As far as I understood, our  project will  tackle some of the challenges identified in relation to the particular needs of the elderly people regarding food and it will  aim at improving the efficiency of the innovation process looking for new formulas to bring knowledge to the food industry in order to develop new products/services/ companies that meet the needs of an increasingly ageing population. In this sense, the final target will be food-related  companies and entrepreneurs ?.
Regarding PRODINTEC´s role our main contribution in WP3 could be to develop guidelines of best practices  in Europe and new opportunities detected regarding food packaging covering the needs of the elderly and the implementation of "design for all" methodologies in product design.  We can also do similar things regarding Eco-design, but, now I don´t see the direct connection of this methodology with food and ageing people.
I guess we are the only partner working on that, so there won´t be an internal exchange of experiences with other partners. Am I right?  Other areas could be nutrition for the elderly? but we only have one partner working on that as well?
I think that the best way is that the lead partcipants (Florence and Francois) start preparing the common template to be shared and defining the project with the information of the partners, identifying possible roles and concrete areas to be analized. Then, the rest of the partners can give feed back, possible outputs, taks  and new ideas, and finally elaborate the budget.
Please let me know what you think.

thank you very much

Best regards

paula

Comments from Christina - 16/07/2010

Dear partners, thank you very much for your contributions.

I agree with Paula that our main challenge now is to concrete and clarify:

- the fields or concrete technologies to be analized&exchange of experiences
- the role of each of us in each WP. I think that technological or non-technological profile of the partner will make the difference.

Best regards

Posted by: Cristina | 16/07/2010 at 15:20

project acronym polling

We were asked to propose acronym for our project in 2010-06- 17 note , but no one proposed anthng new....

If you have any proposal , please write a new note here.......

You will find in the left column a widget for polling => feel free to select 2 acronyms ==> democracy will propose the best result

Application meeting in mid september 2010 ??

Dear friends

Yes it seems that we are OK on the 4 WP !

We have 7 weeks now to work on project items and budget. 

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We have discussed with some of us about having a consortium meeting in the middle of september...

It should help in order

• to meet eachother - some of us did not attend Metz June meeting
• to fill and sign the mandatory application forms

I have been looking for an "easy to reach " low cost  destination...

It seems that Budapest is a good place allowing to fly there from our regions for 1 or 2 days at cheep budget!
Anyway, you have to know that there is a 7.000 € budget allowed by CREATOR to prepare application (on the same 75 or 85% ERDF funding)

We will verify that this is OK for CREATOR comitee!

=> May I propose, as a first idea, having this meeting on tuesday 14/09/2010 in the evening and fly back on thursday 16/09/2010 => That would allow  to have full wednesday and part of thursday to work together

Please feel free to propose alternate solution ?

WP validation

Dear Creator partners,

As regard to your notes and comments, it seems that everybody agree with the 4 WP proposed by François and I and improved by Paula and Ase.

We can now consider this WP validated?

I encourage every partner to define details of tasks and budget inside each WP.

We will compile all your contributions with François during summer.

Thanks a lot

Florence BREHELIN

WP definition

Dear all,

Regarding the 4 WP that we will finally have in the project and following what Francois and Ase wrote before, they can be the following ones:

WP1-Management and coordination

Project managment as a whole in order to reach the objectives, partners coordination, etc.

WP2-Communication and dissemination

Dissemination of the results among indentify and relevant stakeholders outside the project in order to promote  and to increase the awareness

Possible outputs:

- Brochures

- Web

- Dissemination and Communication plan

As Francois wrote: by using the Website, leaflets, brochures, news, symposium

WP3-Exchange of experiences and analysis of good practices

Shoul be devoted to analyse regional data, to exchange the info and good parctices among regions, and to draw conclusions and recommendations

Including what  Ase mentioned: what has been done already ; by whom, methods used and results achieved with regard to all different aspects of eating among elderly.

Possible outputs:

-Good practice guidelines

WP4- Implementation

How this conclusions and recommendations can reach the market and be useful for creating new business opportunities, innovative processes, etc.

According to what Ase also mentioned:  promote local economical development within our different regions.

Possible outputs:

-Feasibility studies

-Strategy plans

Once we have the role of each partner clear, we can start writing the content of all these WP.

Waht do you think?

Best regards

paula

Agreing with Ase

Thank You Åse for your contribution

I do agree that there are many differents projects and programs being developed in each region without any local coordination.
What you are describing is the need to begin with state of art in our local region to make this mandatory inventory.
Then we should be able to benchmark our 6 regions and exchange about all the components of food (health, packagning,  flavour, texture,.....

So, as you see in 2010/07/02 note, this is the subject of WP3, imposed by CREATOR comitee

• WP3 Exchanging of experience / good practices

beginning with state of art and benchmarking and working on common studies

Another important carateristic of CREATOR project is to ask for visible impact on economy and companies added value => that should be the second large part of our project, as aked by your local coordinators:

"to show how this might and can promote local economical development within our different regions"

I think there are many differences in foood habits and consumption needs of our seniors between our various  regions and this difference should be an excellent basis for exchanging and contributing to regional policies enhancements.

Food and Nutrition, Umeå University

Dear CREATOR friends,

I'm sorry for our late response here on the web log but we´re in the middle of our summer vacations. Please read and consider our idea for the joint project. As you will see, and some of you might recall, we have a somewhat new suggestion for our part of the project.

After our initial meeting and brainstorming in Metz we took our ideas from that meeting with us back to Sweden and discussed with our local partners. After a first, brief overview of the subject (food for elderly) we got aware of that there is a large amount of different local projects performed in Sweden but often/usually without coordination between projects, both with regard to methods used and achieved results. Dissemination of the results are often non-existent and rarely affects the normal routines within elder care. We don’t know the situation in other countries but believe the situation might be the same in your regions.

We therefore think that there is a need for a survey to elucidate what has been done already; by whom, methods used and results achieved with regard to all different aspects of eating among elderly. This will enable us to clearly see possibilities to improve nutritional status and health of elderly through increased accessibility and palatability of foods and meals through manipulation of flavour and texture of food, packaging (this is what we were discussing in Metz) and the social environment during meals and also to see where knowledge is lacking.

For efficient use of resources it is necessary to clarify what is already done and what remains to be studied. This may create job opportunities within the food and packaging industries specializing in food and food delivery to the elderly population, with regard to technologies within social media, etc. Improvement in the area will also have an enormous positive health impact on the aging European population.

We have discussed this idea with our local coordinators (Länsstyrelsen Västerbotten)  and they think it is an good idea, in line with the CREATOR idea of transferring of knowledge between our regions. But they also pinpointed that it is important for us to show how this might and can promote local economical development within our different regions.

Feel free to comment on our idea!

Regards,

Åse Tieva, PhD

Department of Food and Nutrition, Umeå University

News on July 9th

 

Our consortium is now growing. We shoud be 6 regions with 8 partners.

• 2 regions partners are more involved in changes which must must be done to improve nutritional status and well being of elderly from an research point of view: Hamk and Umeo universities
• 2 regions  partners are more involved on business improvement for SMEs which shoud benefit of our work : Poznan ansd Heves chambers of commerce
• 2 regions partners are more involved in are more involved in developping tolls and methodologies of innovation: Asturias and Lorraine

We are still waiting on Heves chamber of comerce agreement on our project. Sandor FILE, Director of Economy at , will give his opinion and suggestion next week