TOP4HoneyChains – Smart Honey Value Chain International Cooperation Project Kick-Off Meeting

The opening meeting of the international cooperation project titled TOP4HoneyChains – Trustable and Sustainable Open Platform for Smart Honey Value Chains, coordinated by Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mehmet Nafiz Aydın, faculty member of the Department of Management Information Systems at Kadir Has University and supported by ERA-NET COFUND (ICT-AGRI-FOOD), was held on Thursday, October 19th at our Cibali campus with the participation of the project partners.

The project partners are Kadir Has University and Işık University, Beekeeping Research Institute (Turkey), Instituto Nacional de Tecnologia Agropecuaria (Argentina), NEXCO S.A. (Argentina), Cooperativa Agrop. y Apicola Norte Grande Ltda. (Argentina), Alimentos Naturales Natural Foods S.A. (Argentina), University of Economics in Katowice (Poland) and Latvia University of Life Sciences and Technologies (Latvia).

TOP4HoneyChains is a multinational (with Argentina as a transatlantic partner) study of researchers and experts, with a multi-actor approach to design a reliable and sustainable smart honey value chain (ABZ) that includes research and innovation excellence. Four pilot cases were selected, related to the most common value chains of honey bees and value chains in Argentina and Turkey. These pilot cases are food chains that cover the entire production to consumer, involving many stakeholders, including beekeepers, beekeeper associations and cooperatives, wholesalers, packers and consumer cooperatives.