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Partnerships (including EIT Food)


Partner with IGFS
Connected locally, nationally & internationally

Partnership is central to our ethos and IGFS collaborates widely - with education and research institutes; farmers and the wider agri industry; the agri-food industry, from SMEs to multinational retailers; government bodies and NGOs - in an effort to marry world-leading research with real-world application

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CIEL Livestock is a major partner for IGFS. One of the UK’s four Agri-Tech Centres established as a key pillar of the government’s Agri-Tech Strategy, CIEL represents a partnership between industry, academia and government. It works with 12 of the UK’s leading livestock research institutions and a group of industry members spanning the food supply chain, from farmers to processors and retailers. The aim is to enhance business-led innovation and research that could lead to new commercial opportunities for the agri-food chain, channelling investment from Innovate UK. To date, CIEL has generously invested in a range of research areas within IGFS, including mass spectrometry diagnostics within the ASSET lab; and supporting the development of the AgriPlas lab – the first of its kind in Europe, using cold plasmas to transform aspects of farming and food production and, in the process, mitigate Anti-Microbial Resistance (AMR).


Queen's-AFBI Alliance

In 2018, Queen’s University Belfast announced a new Strategic Alliance with the Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute (AFBI), a non-departmental public body of the NI Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA). AFBI and Queen's have close links historically and the new partnership is enabling the pooling of expertise, resources and knowledge for a new set of challenges, particularly that of a sustainable agrifood sector.

Find out more about the Queen's-AFBI Alliance
AGRI-Food Quest Competence Centre (AFQCC)

Linking researchers with industry

The Agri-Food Quest Competence Centre is a membership-based, industry-led innovation hub for agri-food businesses in Northern Ireland. It links more than 30 locally based, leading agri-food firms, spanning SMEs and larger companies which operate nationally and internationally, with researchers at Queen's University, Ulster University and the Agricultural and Food Biosciences Institute (AFBI). Although it spans all these organisations, it is headquartered at IGFS.

AFQCC website
College of Agriculture, Food & Rural Enterprise (CAFRE)

Educating the next generation of agri-food experts

IGFS has close links with the College of Agriculture, Food & Rural Enterprise (CAFRE) in Northern Ireland, offering a number of courses in conjunction with CAFRE including: BSc in Agricultural Technology; MSc Business for Agri-Food and Rural Enterprise – Rural Enterprise Development; MSc Business for Agri-Food and Rural Enterprise – Innovation Management; MSc Business for Agri-Food and Rural Enterprise – Business Communication; Graduate Certificate in Business for Agri-Food and Rural Enterprise; and Postgraduate Certificate in Business for Agri-Food and Rural Enterprise. For more info see our Study page at https://bit.ly/2AKzGTH

CAFRE website
Europe

IGFS boasts multiple industry, research and policy partners across Europe.

Many research projects are funded by the EU (eg. Horizon 2020, INTERREG, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions) and include partners across Europe and beyond. Some of these are detailed on the Research Examples page. Of central importance also is IGFS' membership of EIT Food, a prestigious Knowledge and Innovation Community (KIC) of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology which connects partners from leading businesses, universities, research centres and institutes across 13 countries in Europe and from the entire food value chain. With a consumer-centred approach, EIT Food aims to empower innovators, entrepreneurs and students to develop world-class solutions to societal challenges, accelerate innovation, create jobs and increase Europe’s competitiveness.

Overseas

IGFS enjoys relationships with industry partners, academic institutions, government agencies and NGOs in various parts of the world.

At an institutional level, IGFS is partner to 'Memorandums of Understanding' (MOUs) with universities in Ghana, Canada, Eduador, Indonseia and China as well as having strong links with universities in Brazil, Peru, Guyana and South Africa. These links are both research and education-oriented. For more information on the MOU process at Queen's, see here. IGFS international research projects include 'Toxic Element Contamination in Agriculture' in South America; and 'Improving Soil Health for Greater Rice Yields' in Bangladesh. IGFS' flagship international project is EU-China-Safe which alone involves 33 partnerships.

EU-China-Safe website
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