Activities
In order to explain the E-platform function and the contents to students, professors and professionals, several activities will be organised by the academic partners. The added value of the specific activities would be:
standardisation of the material used by tutors, realisation of the training with students in real time in order to assess feasibility and efficiency and evaluation of the material by tutors and students, and immediate improvement. These activities will also help to detect possible dysfunctions in the platform and even gaps or errors in the training material produced. In addition, the platform will be disseminated through several events.
Train the trainers (intensive program for teaching staff)
Participants (minimum 20/university) for the learning activity «train the trainers» are members (researchers/academics) of the Consortium which will be trained on the produced training material. The selection is made upon expertise. Train the trainers activity were organised by each partner as an hybrid event (taking place both in person and virtually through the platform) during May 2025.
“Train the trainers” sessions were focused on the material developed and in order initially to familiarise tutors with what has been developed but also to receive their constructive comments after putting hands on the job, as to improve the material. The event will last 2-4 hours. All participants will receive a certificate of attendance.
Train the trainees (intensive program for students)
Students (minimum 20/university) to participate in the event were those who at the time will be attending the meat science module. They did comment on the use of the platform, how easy it is to use, possible mismatches, that the partners will take into consideration to improve it. This event took place in person (or online) in each university of the partnership in March-April 2025 and was addressed to the FST/FS students. The event lasted 2-4 hours. All participants receive a certificate of attendance.
Summer school
Specific event to disseminate the platform, intensive learning activity, with the final material, for students attending or attended Meat Science modules, postgraduate (6 per university) + 2 tutors per university.
From July 7th to 11th, the Polytechnic Institute of Bragança hosted the InnoMeatEdu Summer School, an international event bringing together students and experts from several European universities. Held at the School of Agriculture (Escola Superior Agrária) on the Santa Apolónia Campus, the program focused on innovation, quality, sustainability, and entrepreneurship in the meat sector.
Throughout the week, participants took part in theoretical and prac
tical sessions, case study presentations, multimedia modules, self-assessments, and technical visits to industry partners such as Bísaro Salsicharia Tradicional. Topics include fundamentals of meat production and processing, technological advances, food safety, marketing, and environmental impact.
In total, more than 30 students and more than 15 tutors from the different universities and CTC participated in the activity.
Multiplier events
Six events (1/academic/research organization) were organised during May 2025. These events used the host partner’s academic, research and meat industry network to attract key stakeholders and policy makers from Associated Partners and other target audiences to disseminate project outputs related to the project. More than 30 attendees per university participated, including associated partner, professors and students.
Connection with the industry events
The Entrepreneurship activity was led by UTH and the Case study activity by 4obs and all partners had input.
Event 1. On May 16 (11:00 CET) the first event of “Connection with the Industry” took place virtually. The skope of the event was to provide opportunities for brokerage events and SMT transfer programs. The participants were expected to develop/increase capacities for engaging in open innovation, targeting new consumer segments, expanding market share, competitiveness, revenues and job
creation. The audience was meat science and technology students, professionals from the meat industry and academics and experts for meat science and also for entrepreneurship. Before the event an invitation was sent to all the interested parties analyzing the aim of the event and listing the agenda of the meeting.
All partners participated in the event and there were minimum five representatives from each country (2 students, 2 industry, 1 academic). Overall participated 45 persons approximately. Participating students with ideas asked for mentoring which was decided after examination of the idea and upon the availability of professionals to serve as mentors. Entrepreneurs of the meat
industry were invited to communicate their experiences to the audience; The participating students made proposals for topics of interest and focus groups were created to nominate the the most prevalent Case Studies. The aim was for all participating organizations to provide cases that are known as best practices (or failures) in their region/country (2 per country- industrial
partner, in EN and native language).
Event 2. On May 23 (11:00 CET) the second event of “Connection with the Industry” took place in hybrid form. Approximately fifty (50) people participated in the event. The aim of the hybrid event with industry was to provide the implementation of a case study-based training approach to meat science education by integration of education, research, innovation and business management.
During the event, the InnoMeatEdu platform (https://innomeatedu.unileon.es/) and ten (10) Case Studies were presented. All participating organizations provided case studies that are known as best practices (or failures) in their region/country.
The results of the Events of “Connection with the Industry” were:
– Diffusion of the InnoMeatEdu results in spinouts among participants of the partner countries and if it generates young motivated Entrepreneurs
– Academia and the meat industry shared experiences, by case studies presentations.
– The complete training package alongside selected entrepreneurship case studies is shared with the meat industry through the InnoMeatEdu platform.