LUKE – Finland
Natural Resources Institute Finland (official name: LUONNONVARAKESKUS) is the leading research and expert organization in the agri-food sector in Finland. Established in 2015 by a merger of four well-known research and expert institutes, LUKE is one of the largest clusters of bioeconomy expertise in Europe. During the last five years, LUKE has participated in 55 major European projects and dozens of other international projects globally. LUKE is the leading research organization in the field of insect production in Finland. It is a strong multidisciplinary research institute that masters different perspectives of insect production and processing.
LUKE is leading Biological, technical and economic aspects and parameters to insect rearing and Biological, technical and economic requirements on insect rearing process and Optimizing insect rearing (chain) through the development of a model-driven support system, and contributing to Use-cases, user requirements and system architectures, Cognitive robots and smart mechatronics, Secure platform integration, Pilot studies demonstration and evaluation, Dissemination, communication and exploitation, and Project management.
Jarkko Niemi
Research professor
jarkko.niemi@luke.fi
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.
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.
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
Prof dr Mladen Radisic
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.
