30 new foods will be presented at the Nordtic conference in Selfoss. The Nordic Bioeconomy, which is part of the Icelandic Government's three-year chairmanship of the Nordic Council of Ministers, will be discussed. Innovation in the field of food production is one of the challenges of the project.
A conference on the Nordic bioeconomy will be held in Selfoss on 25 June, with the aim of finding ways to fully utilize products without depleting resources, thus reducing waste, increasing value creation and encouraging innovation.
The results of food innovation will be presented at the conference, but earlier this year there was an advertisement for interested parties to take part in product development projects both in Iceland and in Greenland and the Faroe Islands. The aim was to develop new foods or food-related products. Innovative projects of this kind strengthen regional economic growth and increase sustainability in food production.
Examples of foods that were developed in the project and can be tasted at the conference include: Ice cream from skyrmys, hand-picked Icelandic berries and wild herbs, Carrot flakes, Heilsumæjónes with omega-3 and Arctic char on feed produced with mold proteins . A total of about 30 products will be introduced from Iceland, the Faroe Islands and Greenland.
The bioeconomy is Matís' concern, as many of the company's projects revolve around its protection and welfare. Next November, the Arctic Bioeconom project will be completed, which has mostly focused on food production innovation and thus food security in the Arctic, but together with Iceland, food production in the Faroe Islands and Greenland as well as the northern parts of Norway, Sweden and Finland was mainly considered. Sigrún Elsa Smáradóttir, Director of Business Development, is the project manager of the project.
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The program will be as follows:
- 09:15 Coffee and registration
- 10:00 Opening the conference | Sigurður Ingi Jóhannsson, Minister of Fisheries and Agriculture
- 10:15 No standard = no market | Dr. dr. Andreas Hensel, President at BfR
- 11:00 Product development in the Arctic Bioeconomy | Sigrún Elsa Smáradóttir, Research group leader, Matís
- 11:30 Industry success stories:
- Janus Vang, Director, iNOVA and Leif Sörensen, Chef. Faroe Islands
- Kim Lyberth, Inuili school, Greenland
- Ingunn Jónsdóttir, Regional Manager Matís and Valdís Magnúsdóttir, farmer and local food producer, Iceland
- 12:00 Lunch | Special taste of innovation
- 13:30 Branding of Nordic food | Emil Bruun Blauert, CEO, Executive Advisor and Developer, WNEAT
- 13:50 Microfeed: Turning wood into food | Clas Engström, Managing Director, SP
- 14:10 Nutrition for the future - Possibilities of the Nordic areas? | Bryndís Eva Birgisdóttir, Associate Professor, University of Iceland
- 14:30 Coffee break
- 14:50 Food waste: Problem or growth opportunity? | Nils Kristian Afseth, Research Scientist, PhD, Nofima
- 15:10 Investing in algae - Ingredients for future food production | Olavur Gregersen, Managing Director, Syntesa Partners & Associates
- 15:30 Assessing and mitigating risk in the Nordic Bioeconomy | Guðmundur Halldórsson, Research Coordinator, Soil Conservation Service of Iceland
- 15:45 Reflection panel | Nordic and Arctic bioeconomy in local & global perspective:
- Julian Roberts - COMSEC
- Prof. Dr. Eberhard Haunhorst, President of Lower Saxony State Office for Consumer Protection and Food Safety
- Alda Agnes Gylfadóttir, Managing director, Einhamar Seafood
- Sigurður Björnsson, Head of Research and Innovation, RANNÍS
- Ásmundur Guðjónsson, Senior Adviser, Ministry of Fisheries Faroe Islands
- 16:30 End of conference
Conference facilitator: Guðrún Hafsteinsdóttir, Chairman of the Federation of Iceland Industries.
The conference will be held in English.