Presenting our youth organisations: CEJA
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...
Bundling forces across projects to develop an online course on business models in farming
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...
Who will transform our food system?
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...
Artificial Intelligence for managing sustainable food systems
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...
New network of pan-European ambassadors to change food systems
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...
Call for Ambassadors launch event
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 Europe & the Agriculture
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...
The city by the sea: an undiscovered treasure
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...
A long-term vision for the EU’s rural areas!
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...
Working together to change food systems
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...