Pilot chains and demonstration activities

The research and technology developments are completed by applied research in pilot chains and demonstration activities. These are core elements in Q-PorkChains which focus on the involvement of the industry and especially on Small and Medium sized Enterprises (SMEs) in testing and demonstrating innovations and new technologies.

 

Addressing application oriented research on chain aspects together with mostly legally independent organisations is a major challenge of Q-PorkChains. A multitude of players from a variety of disciplines along pork chains have to be involved when preliminary results or demonstrated research findings are to be validated on a chain level.

 

Eight pilot chains and two demonstration chains act as real-world laboratories and integrate research with 'on the ground' validation.

 

The pilot and demonstration chains focuses on the following themes (the pilot and demonstration chains written in italic are still under development):

• Animal health (pilot chain 1, pilot chain 2, pilot chain 3, pilot chain 5)
• Animal welfare (pilot chain 3, pilot chain 5)
• Chain management (pilot chain 1, pilot chain 2, pilot chain 4, pilot chain 7, pilot chain 8, demonstration activity 1)
• Food safety (pilot chain 3, pilot chain 8)
• Information and communication technologies (pilot chain 1, pilot chain 2, pilot chain 8, demonstration activity 1)
• Meat quality (pilot chain 4, pilot chain 6, pilot chain 8, demonstration activity 2)
• Sustainable pork production (pilot chain 5, pilot chain 7)

Read more on the pilot chains and demonstration activities at the Industry Platform