Climate change is creating new challenges for food safety, and meeting them takes scientific knowledge, practical experience and cooperation across the food supply chain. Researchers need to understand the questions food businesses face, while producers and policymakers need research findings they can use.
The AMBROSIA Innovation Hub (AIH) was set up to support that exchange. Developed within the EU-funded AMBROSIA project, which brings together 18 partners in seven countries and works across four European regions, Atlantic, Boreal, Continental and Mediterranean, the Hub connects people and organisations interested in food safety, climate adaptation and innovation, and links research with practical needs.
Why the Innovation Hub matters
A scientific finding or a new digital tool achieves more when the people who need it understand its value and can contribute to its development. That makes dialogue between researchers, businesses, public authorities and society essential.
The AIH provides a shared point of reference for that dialogue. It aims to make knowledge easier to find, encourage the exchange of experience, and create opportunities for collaboration across sectors and countries. Bringing different perspectives together can reveal needs that research alone might overlook, as well as the practical barriers to adopting new approaches.
Within AMBROSIA, this exchange supports a wider goal: improving the understanding and assessment of climate-related food safety risks through climate modelling, food hazard research and digital technologies.
What the AIH aims to achieve
The Hub's objectives focus on turning shared knowledge into opportunities for learning and cooperation.
Make knowledge accessible: share research findings, project developments, experiences and good practices on food safety in a changing climate.
Support learning and uptake: build understanding of AMBROSIA's tools and approaches through planned workshops and training, including guidance on using the project's digital platform in practice.
Connect people and initiatives: build links between food system stakeholders, related research projects and innovation networks across Europe.
Encourage innovation: involve start-ups, SMEs, researchers and entrepreneurs in exchanging ideas and exploring solutions to food safety challenges.
Bring practical needs into the conversation: invite stakeholders to share their experiences and priorities, so that the Hub's activities stay relevant to the people they aim to support.
These objectives put participation at the centre of the Hub, whose value grows with the perspectives, questions and expertise people bring to it.
Who can get involved?
The AIH welcomes farmers, food producers and processors, researchers, technology developers, start-ups, SMEs, policymakers and public authorities. Consumer organisations, civil society groups and anyone else interested in food safety and climate resilience also have a valuable perspective to contribute.
You do not need to be an AMBROSIA partner to take part. The Hub is meant to connect the project with a wider community and open conversations beyond the consortium.
Stay connected
Subscribing to the Hub is a simple first step. Subscribers hear about project developments and about upcoming Hub activities and opportunities to take part as its resources and community grow. Whether you want to follow the research, share a practical challenge or explore a collaboration, you can subscribe through the AMBROSIA Innovation Hub and join a community working towards safer, more resilient food systems.
This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under grant agreement 101181300.
