About us
VEG-i-TEC is a living lab for the potato and vegetable processing industry.
- Water and energy management
- By-products
- Food safety and food quality
- Food processing
- Hygienic design
- Economic, ecologic and social impact
For whom?
Internal use or specifically for eg.
- Mechanical engineering
- Technology suppliers (eg. Water, sensors,…)
- Potato and vegetable processing industry
- (inter)national research groups and organizations
How?
Innovative research and services
- Both executive and facilitating
- Different project forms: collective, 1 on 1, whether or not (partly) subsidized
- Theses, internships, student projects,…
- Training/workshops/demonstrations etc. both in industrial or academic/educational context
Partners and support
This living lab has been made possible by the cooperation of several national and international partners in 3 pioneering European projects:
- EFRO project: construction of a research building
- EFRO GTI WVl project – living lab Food-Water
- INTERREG FWVl project – pilot infrastructure
Team
Team leaders
Staff
- Bashar Kabawa
- Ben Van den Wouwer
- Caroline Vandenbussche
- Chang Zhou
- Christophe Wille
- Eline Taillieu
- Ellen Neyrinck
- Fanfen Song
- Hanne Vanmarcke
- Ioanna Stamogiannou
- Joëlle Housmans
- Kyriaki Tsirtsidou
- Louis De Bruyckere
- Maryam Imbumi
- Michael Chys
- Mulugeta Hailu Redae
- Ngoc Thao Ngan Trinh
- Pieter-Jan Loveniers
- Tessa Tuytschaever
- Yannick Verheust
- Yang Zou