Between the 8th and the 10th of May, the first RUSTICA cross-visit took place in Ghent, Belgium.

In this context, a meeting was set up between Federica Cisilino from the Italian Council for Agricultural Research and Economics (CREA) and junior researcher and PhD student Lorenzo Giacomella, who is involved in the Food processing in a bOX (FOX) project.

Both the FOX and the RUSTICA project aim at developing business models and robustness checks as well as technological developments. This exchange between researchers of different projects helps to share struggles, and identify opportunities to overcome them.

Read more on RUSTICA’s website.