PrintoFood

Food chain is the fundamental element of systems to maintain the basic needs of living in human society. The essential parts of the food chain are in the turning point of development. They are supposed to produce safe and healthy food more efficiently with less resources. One part of this development is digitalisation and technology development, which will be in the scope of the project.

In this project, the printed intelligence and structural electronics based technological solutions will be developed to improve the safety and efficiency in the food chain. A research and development environment will be implemented to provide design, manufacturing, and testing expertise to develop products relevant for food safety and self-sufficiency improvement. In addition, project will generate new scientific information about the technology.

After the project, Oulu region is an internationally significant research and development ecosystem which has proven capability to develop new products to the food safety technology market. Project will increase the visibility and the awareness of printed intelligence and structural electronics ecosystem.

The funding for this project from the European Regional Development Fund has been granted by the Regional Council of North Ostrobothnia. In addition to Oulu University of Applied Sciences (Oamk), the project involves the University of Oulu, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, and the Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke).