Italian Cricket Farm
ICF – Italy
Founded in 2017, Italian Cricket Farm was born from the collaboration of an entrepreneurial group that had the initial idea of investing in a cutting-edge project. Currently, the company achieves its economic independence by breeding crickets, belonging to the species AD (Acheta domesticus, Linnaeus 1758), to be destined to the pet-food market, the primacy achieved, for quantity and quality, has allowed it to conquer this niche market nationwide, gaining the break-even point in just two years.
Role in the project
The ICF, through its breeding and human resources, will ensure the proper conduct of the definition phase and implementation phase, specifically about the Use-cases and user requirements, Functional specifications, Biological, technical and economic requirements on insect rearing process, Developing sustainable insect diets from agricultural wastes and sidestreams, and will ensure continuous monitoring during the demonstration and testing phase (Pilot studies demonstration and evaluation).
Contact person
Ivan Albano
ivan@italiancricketfarm.com
CoRoSect consortium is a diverse and dynamic network of partners, representing key players in insect farming, pure robotic science and engineering, sustainability-driven innovation practices as well as collaborative business models.
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CoRoSect is developing a novel Cognitive Robotic System for Digitalized and Networked (Automated) Insect Farms. We bring leading-edge robotics, AI, and some of the best experts in our industry - to help embrace automation and wave goodbye to the monotonous and mundane tasks.
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Project Coordination
Dr. Rico Möckel
Maastricht University
Department of Data Science and Knowledge Engineering (DKE)
Paul Henri Spaaklaan 1
6229EN Maastricht
The Netherlands
Tel.: +31433883482
rico.mockel@maastrichtuniversity.nl
Project Communication
Prof. Dr. Mladen Radišić
CEO Foodscale Hub
Narodnog fronta 73
21000 Novi Sad
Serbia
Tel.: (+381) 21 300 8023
mladen@foodscalehub.com
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 101016953.
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