PRIMA PROJECT MEETING 6

On May 13th, 2022, at 10.00 am (Rome time), the Principal Investigators (PI) and the Research Team Members of the VEGGIE-MED-CHEESES Partners met via TEAMS, with the following AGENDA:

Connection and greeting

Communications from the Coordinator

Updates on WP5 (cheese-making trials and characterization of the thistle-curled cheeses) activities and results with presentations by PIs/Team members

Delivery of crude extracts (CEs) for cheese-making of samples for WP6 activities

Updates on WP7 and final meeting (2023) organization

Discussion and issues from the Partners

Closure of the meeting.

Innovation festival 2021

Università Politecnica delle Marche (UNIVPM), in collaboration with the European Institute of Innovation & Technology and the EIT Food Hub of the Università di Bari (UNIBA), on December 3th, 2021, at the Contamination Lab in Montedago (UNIVPM, Ancona) organized the workshop “Training and Innovation in Agrifood for Youth”. During the event, the Project Coordinator Prof. Lucia Aquilanti presented the VEGGIE-MED-CHEESES Project, as an example of international research activities for the valorization of the Agrifood sector in Mediterranean Marginal Areas.

PRIMA PROJECT MEETING 5

Due to persistence of SARS-COVID-19 pandemic, on June 16th, 2021, at 2.00 pm (Rome time), the Principal Investigators (PI) and the Research Team Members of the VEGGIE-MED-CHEESES Partners met via TEAMS, with the following AGENDA:
Connection and greeting
Updates on WP2, WP3 and WP4 activities
Delivery of experimental extracts (CEs) for cheesemaking trials (WP5)
Planning of WP6 activities
Updates on WP7 (Dissemination/communication activities)
Discussion and issues from the Partners
Closure of the meeting.

PRIMA PROJECT MEETING 4

Due to persistence of SARS-COVID-19 pandemic, on June 16th, 2021, at 2.00 pm (Rome time), the Principal Investigators (PI) and the Research Team Members of the VEGGIE-MED-CHEESES Partners met via TEAMS, with the following AGENDA:
Connection and greeting
Updates on WP2, WP3 and WP4 activities
Delivery of experimental extracts (CEs) for cheesemaking trials (WP5)
Planning of WP6 activities
Updates on WP7 (Dissemination/communication activities)
Discussion and issues from the Partners
Closure of the meeting.

Participation in activities organized jointly with other H2020 project(s)

• To celebrate the start of the research projects funded under the PRIMA Calls for Proposals 2018, a kick-off meeting has been held on 20 June 2019 at Agropolis International (Avenue Agropolis, 34394 Montpellier, France). The Coordinator of the VeggieMedCheeses project, prof. Lucia Aquilanti, has attended the meeting and briefly presented the VeggieMedCheeses  research proposal and network.

• Guidance through PRIMA MEL platform – 5th february 2021 (With respect to the MEL platform and the activation links)

• Virtual Monitoring Meeting 12nd October 2020.

• 26th May 2020 – VIRTUAL SYNERGY MEETING

Cynaracardunculus: science and technology in a millennial tradition; vegetable rennet in the preparation of cheeses and Torta del Casa

Tejada Portero L. Universidad Catolica Sant’Antonio de Murcia (Spain). Invited Lecturer at the Technical conference “26 Semana de la Torta del Casar – Jornada Tecnica Divulgativa de la Universidad del Queso”. Title of the invited lecture: “Cynaracardunculus: science and technology in a millennial tradition; vegetable rennet in the preparation of cheeses and Torta del Casar” (on-line event using the Zoom platform, 14 October 2020) ttps://tagus.online/jornada-divulgativa/