Call for partners | Process Analytical Technologies for Food Processing Industry (PAT4FOOD)
Food processing industries face increasing pressure to ensure consistent product quality, improve resource efficiency, reduce waste, and comply with stricter regulatory requirements, all while operating with narrow margins. Many processes still rely on offline laboratory analyses and empirical adjustments, limiting responsiveness and process transparency. Process Analytical Technologies (PAT) offers a pathway toward real-time monitoring, data-driven decision-making, and more stable, efficient production.
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Partners:
We are seeking partners from food processing industries with process optimisation challenges, suppliers of new PAT technologies and sensors, and providers of chemometrics/data analytics software and modelling solutions. Joint participation in a Public-Private Partnership (PPS) enables shared risk and co-innovation: the subsidy typically covers a significant portion of eligible project costs, supporting collaborative research and development between companies and knowledge institutes. In the PPS context, industry co-funds the project alongside public support, enabling access to expertise and technologies that would be otherwise difficult or costly to implement alone.
About the project
PAT4FOOD project aims to accelerate the implementation of advanced PAT solutions in food processing environments. While spectroscopic sensing, inline monitoring, and chemometrics are widely used in pharmaceutical industries, their application in food manufacturing remains limited due to technological, integration, and interpretation challenges. PAT4FOOD addresses these barriers by co-developing solutions with industry partners, validating technologies in real industrial settings, and establishing best practices for implementation and scale-up. We seek collaboration with food processors facing optimisation challenges, suppliers of innovative new PAT technologies and sensors, and providers of chemometrics and data analytics solutions. Through a Public-Private Partnership (PPP) model, partners benefit from shared risk, co-innovation, and substantial subsidy support for collaborative research and development.
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