Kaisa Vehmas, Minna Kulju, Paula Rosa Álvarez, María Jiménez Portaz, Sofía Sánchez Seda, Pauline Bodin, Maïti Rousset, Liesbeth Dries, Ilenia Manetti, Patrizia Borsotto, Francesca Giarè, Andres Penalosa, Rita Iacono, Roberto Cagliero, Jennifer Attard, David Barry, James Gaffey, Anna Bialik, Katarzyna Rull Quesada, Tomasz Bober, Selen Tokcan, Özge Dinç, Britt Sandvad
This dataset contains the reports of a series of 11online brokerage and matchmaking events organised in the focal countries (Beacon Regions) of theagroBRIDGESH2020 project (Task 4.3). The objective of the online brokerage event (titled "Let's build our SFSC") is to promote business-to-business collaboration among agri-food producers and farmers, with other businesses in the supply chain (distributors, packagers, hospitality) and develop new opportunities for Short Food Supply Chains. The events were organised using an online matchmaking platform that was selected following market research that was conducted previously in the project. The platform supports the booking of one-to-one meetings among participants to meet, discuss and negotiate business opportunities. The first version contains the reports of 9events organised in an equal number of regions, involving more than 150 participants in total, as summarised in the table below. The 2nd version includes the reports of 2additional online events in Denmark andTurkey that were organised in May 2023, engaging 60 additional stakeholders. Date Beacon Region Organiser (BRL) 24/02/2023 Bretagne & Pays de La Loire, France Vegepolys Valley (VGP) 02/03/2023 Central Macedonia, Greece Q-PLAN INTERNATIONAL (Q-PLAN) 09/03/2023 Lazio & Piemonte, Italy Council for Agricultural Research and Economics (CREA) 14/03/2023 Ireland Munster Technological University (MTU) supported by Teagasc (TGC) 15/03/2023 Finland VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland (VTT) 27/03/2023 Lithuania UNIMOS Alliance (UNMF) 29/03/2023 Andalusia, Spain Technological Corporation of Andalusia (CTA) 30/03/2023 Latvia UNIMOS Alliance (UNMF) 31/03/2023 Poland UNIMOS Alliance (UNMF) 24/05/2023 Denmark Food and BioCluster Denmark (FBCD) 31/05/2023 Turkey Sabri Ulker Foundation (SUF)
