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A very exciting milestone was reached in the COCOREADO project last week. After almost a whole year of work and planning, the COCOREADO selection team met together in Helsinki to choose our ambassadors. These are the young people who will...

During the peak of the Covid pandemic in Bulgaria, students from the Vocational school of tourism and construction in a small mountain town in Bulgaria joined forces with local food producers to provide hot meals to front line medics. The...

Did you know that less than 10% of the European farms are run by farmers under the 35 years old? And according to EU statistics, only Austria, Poland and Slovakia are doing better than the EU average. Did you also...

Rural Youth Europe is a European Non-Governmental Organisation for rural youth. We were established in 1957 and function as an umbrella organisation working as an intermediary between national organisations, youth organisations and public institutions on a European level. Rural Youth...

MIJARC Europe- International Movement of Catholic Agricultural and Rural Youth – Europe is a non-profit, non-governmental youth led organization gained its independance from MIJARC World in 1996.  MIJARC Europe represents the interest of fourteen member organizations, acting at the European...

COCOREADO is not a project about young people, but we co-create with young people. This makes the project more powerful. In the consortium, we have representatives of the youth umbrella organizations. One of them is CEJA, that represents national organizations...

KU Leuven, ILVO, Rikolto, Odissee Hogeschool and the Fachhochschule Südwestfalen bundle their forces in the development of a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on Business Models for Sustainable Farming. With this initiative, they also provide output that is highly relevant...

  Food systems need to change. There are just too many issues associated with current arrangements structuring our food supply. Most of the people who are reading blog entries like this are well aware of these problems and thus there...

Agronomy is actively upgrading the classical research approach of the slow but reliable acquisition of new knowledge (problem, hypothesis, method, data). In addition, it is obliged to meet the objectives of several sustainable development goals and must provide a wide...

On the 14th of September 2021, EU Horizon project COCOREADO celebrated the launch of a pan-European ambassadors’ network. The project has opened a call to select individuals passionate about food and agriculture who would bring forward the project’s ambition of...

COCOREADO is pleased to invite you to the official launch of its Call for Ambassadors! The event takes place on Tuesday 14th of September in the presence of potential local ambassadors and all consortium partners among which CEJA, MIJARC and...

MIJARC’s main topic of work for the year 2020 was youth participation to agriculture. Despite the difficulties associated with Covid-19 situation, we were able to implement local visits in 6 European countries, that enabled our young participants to identify priorities...

Ostend is the largest coastal city in Belgium with 71 332 inhabitants, well-known by Belgians and often crowded by tourists on sunny days. What most of them don’t know, even the people of Ostend, is the 35 ha polder landscape...

The Horizon 2020 project COCOREADO has a strong focus on rural areas.  With the primary aim to rebalance the position of the farmer in the food supply chain, the project wants to foster the economic development and entrepreneurial innovation in...

To quote the COCOREADO’s project proposal: COCOREADO aims to rebalance the position of the farmer in food supply chains. In other words – COCOREADO is working to change food supply chains. Probably everybody working with food systems will agree that...

A new initiative, created with care for the healthy nutrition of the youngest, was recently launched in a small municipality in Bulgaria. This is the first municipal organic farm in Bulgaria, located in the city of Troyan. Its main goal...

COCOREADO is a project under Horizon 2020 that aims to bring balance to the food chain, giving more relevance to farmers. The project applies a three-fold approach to maximize impact, relying on ambassadorship, good practices, and a focus on youth,...

Our research group SFERE – sustainable food economies research – is actively involved in European projects dealing with food and farming. In line with the vision of the agricultural European Innovation Partnership (EIP-AGRI), European consortia bundle academic and non-academic expertise...

  The COCOREADO project is designed to rebalance the position of the farmer. Although COCOREADO has just recently started, the objective has been a common denominator of the national and regional food supply chain related projects of LUT University Supply...

  The COCOREADO project was launched during an online kick-off meeting on January 11th 2021 gathering the 13 consortium partners representing 9 different countries. The project will run till June 2024. Erik Mathijs and Tessa Avermaete (KULeuven), coordinators of the...