The Food Consortium

The Food Consortium Collaborative Training Partnership (CTP) is timely, unique and unprecedented, bringing together food manufacturers with a significant R&D base in the UK, together with the largest UK based independent science and technology provider and trainer for the food industry (Campden BRI) and the Haydn Green Institute (Nottingham University business school) at the forefront of creating a culture of entrepreneurship and innovation to connect ideas, people and communities to respond to societal, environmental and economic challenges and drive positive change through innovation.

We will create the following opportunities and have the following impacts:

• Develop people (supervisors and students), providing an innovation ecosystem through collaboration and partnership in the delivery of 28 PhD studentships.
• Focus on specific key areas including: Resilient Agriculture, Enhancing Nutrient Quality and Resource Utilisation.
• Provide industrial leadership in aligning with the currently funded Food and Non-Food CDTs/DTPs to ensure best practice and to optimise joint training courses to build a unique ‘collective’ cohort of studentships in Food in the UK.
• Develop umbrella directional multi-author position statements/white papers covering the implications of the findings of the portfolio of research projects in both science and policy.
• Deliver business facing training (provided by Campden BRI) to the researchers, and the researchers and supervisors will be trained in concepts and issues to consider when commercialising early-stage science and technology, using tools to help evaluate innovation and commercialisation strategies. Supervisors will plan and road-map the way ahead and provide strong leadership skills and behaviours to empower people development in creating a connected ‘network’ identity to drive a UK food research powerhouse.

Tim Foster, Campden BRI Scientific Affairs Director, commented

“We are delighted to be part of The Food Consortium. We have worked collaboratively for many years in the KTN Food Strategy Group, on an informal basis. Through that trusted connection we have developed the joint vision and scope for the CTP. Campden BRI has had a central role in coordinating the writing of the CTP and will now be managing and administering it. We see this as being a major stepping stone and a collective effort to provide well trained researchers to develop the industry of the future, building a cohort to provide the UK Food and Drink Industry with strength for years to come”.

We can’t wait to get started!

For further information contact:

Support Team
+44(0)1386 842291
support@campdenbri.co.uk

For media enquiries contact:
Gareth Renowden
+44(0)1386 842599