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Celebrating Innovation and Collaboration at the Value4Pack Final Event

06 November 2025

On 2 October 2025, the Monasterium PoortAckere in Ghent hosted an inspiring day focused on international collaboration and innovation in packaging. Pack4Food welcomed 77 participants from across the entire value chain for the final event of the European Val...

AgriFoodX5.0 Newsletter January 2024

03 January 2024

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International project Value4Pack will help businesses and local governments prepare for changes in EU packaging law

02 January 2024

Food Products Quality Cluster, together with partners from 11 countries, will help companies and authorities address challenges accompanying the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR) regulation expected to come into effect in 2024. On December 18,...

AgriFoodX5.0 Newsletter October, 2023

10 October 2023

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Food sector study visit to Galicia - Spain

12 June 2023

Project No 3.2.1.1/16/A/002 “Partikas produktu Kvalitates Klasteris” has successfully finished 31.12.2022

31 December 2022

During the Project: Export missions were made to 15 countries More than 200 meetings between Latvian Food Producers and foreign buyers were organized More than 2000 foreign buyers were introduced with Latvian Food production Incoming buyer...

FPQC is participating in COSME project AgriFoodX5.0

10 February 2022

The European Innovation Council and SMEs Executive Agency (EISMEA) has signed grant agreement with the five-partner consortium. The grant is awarded for the action entitled “Cluster Excellence Improvement through cluster Exchange for Industry 5.0 (AgriFoodX...

Project Safe Smart Food consortia representative participates in the event “Clusters Driving the Green and Digital transitions”

01 November 2021

Manager of Food Products Quality Cluster Armands Lejas-Krumins participated in the event “Clusters Driving the Green and Digital transitions”, organized by the EISMEA, the European Commission and the Ile de France Region took place on 22-23 November 2021 in...

AUMENTA

02 September 2020

The Executive Agency for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (EASME) of European Commission has signed grant agreement with the five-partner consortium, where Latvian IT Cluster is coordinator, for funding five Clusters of cross-sectorial co-operation Projec...

AUMENTA opens borders for the agri-food industry and 4.0 with a pioneering internationalization project in Morocco, Georgia and Uruguay

01 September 2020

Partnering organizations from Poland, Latvia and Lithuania and Spain has launched the AUMENTA project, a pioneering European project to support SMEs in the agri-food industry and Industry 4.0 in their international expansion beyond the borders of the Europe...

New services programme derived from a 5-year partnership strategy

20 August 2020

The Safe Smart Food consortium aims to provide new and better services to the members of all five clusters During the last months, the Safe Smart Food team has been working on analysing the food and packaging value chains and their ecosystems in all the co...

Better Factory: growing the European manufacturing business

05 August 2020

Better Factory invites Small and Medium-sized Manufacturers (SMEs) to redesign their current product portfolio together with Business and Arts mentors and Technology experts. Manufacturers can tap into disruptive product innovation that responds to new ma...

Project SAFE SMART FOOD; grant agreement – 874389

10 March 2020

European Strategic Cluster Partnership for Excellence (ESCP-4x) Project SAFE SMART FOOD; grant agreement – 874389 The Safe Smart Food project’s kick off meeting in Austria to internationalise food related clusters in Europe “Several European Clusters h...

Food Products Quality Cluster meets with Turkish representatives

29 January 2020

On 29 January 2020, a meeting of LFFC Food Products Quality Cluster and the Turkish Chamber of Commerce and Industry took place in the Ministry of Agriculture building. The Latvian food industry was presented to guests from all regions of Turkey, noting a...

Food Product Quality Cluster chooses Latvia’s best young baker of 2019!

12 November 2019

The contest among students of Latvian professional education institutions “Young baker 2019” (“Jaunais Maiznieks 2019”) concluded on November 2019. Justīne Jumīte, a student of Jelgava Crafts Secondary School, was recognized its winner. The contest was o...

Food Products Quality Cluster is a co-founder of Latvian Clusters Network

01 July 2019

1st July, 2019 was important day for Sector Clusters of Latvia. Signing of the Memorandum of Understanding on Clusters Cooperation in Latvia. Memorandum was signed by 13 leading Latvian Sector Clusters: Food Product Quality Cluster, Latvian Health Tourism C...

DIGICLUSTERS management team meeting

18 March 2019

In March 18th, 2019 the project partner representatives took part in the project management team meeting and study visit in Kaunas, Lithuania. The purpose of the visit is to: Discuss basic aspects of project implementation Sign a partnership agreement;...

Latvian Food B2B Matchmaking Event

05 March 2019

On 12-13th of March Food Products Quality Cluster in cooperation with Gateway&Partners organize Latvian Food B2B Matchmaking Event where Latvian food manufacturers welcomed European food importers. The event gathered 9 European importers that came to L...

PROJECT

04 March 2019

“ESCP S3 for speeding up industrial modernization of Agrofood packaging sectors towards Industry 4.0 and digital transformation by Cluster-Facilitated X-Industry Hackathons —DIGICLUSTERS” PROJECT No. 822095 Digitalisation is at the base of growth – new di...

Food Products Quality Cluster is implementing COSME Go International Project DIGICLUSTERS

04 October 2018

PROJECT “ESCP S3 for speeding up industrial modernization of Agrofood packaging sectors towards Industry 4.0 and digital transformation by Cluster-Facilitated X-Industry Hackathons —DIGICLUSTERS” PROJECT No. 822095 The Grand Agreement was signed...