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The tenure trackers and PhDs of 4TU-Redesign visited Bakker Barendrecht on 6 September 2024. Advisory board member Rob Wessels elaborated on the latest logistic developments and discussed the current challenges in optimizing delivery of fresh fruits and vegetables. Advisory board member Bart Stengs (Achmea) then took over to discuss implications of the new risk environment for the insurability of greenhouses. He also discussed the complexity of insuring cyber risk. The morning was closed by an interesting tour across the Bakker Barendrecht facilities.

High-tech developments in greenhouses go very fast, among others to further save energy and water, increase automation, and increase yields. Hans Koolhaas (co-owner of LKP Plants) enthusiastically shared their experiences with latest high-tech. Marc Middeldorp and advisory board member Jessie-Lynn van Egmond (both from Van der Hoeven Horticultural Projects) then discussed the technical challenges and opportunities, and indicated their ambitions to collaborate with multiple stakeholders to increase circularity.

On 29 May 2024, the 4TU-Redesign team of researchers, the advisory board, and members of the Applied Universities met in Delft for the annual consortium meeting.

Vorige week publiceerde Groente & Fruit Magazine het  artikel: ' Gezondheidsgestuurde teelt door app-gegevens lokale consument'. 

On November 15 2023, Miranda Meuwissen was invited by Jaap Feijen (HAN) to present and discuss 4TU-Redesign with the master students of the new master program ‘Business Sales’. The discussion centred around two topics: (i) how did the creative innovation process around 4TU-Redesign materialize, and (ii) which challenges do we face? The students added very useful ideas to 4TU-Redesign including some new challenges and unique selling points. Many thanks.  

Kathleen Guan presented her PhD project as part of 4TU-Redesign at the launch of the Institute for Health Systems Science at TU Delft (November 7).

On October 25th 2023 three members of our consortium presented the 4TU-Redesign project at the Digital Innovation Expo in Wageningen. Anand Gavai, Maral Mahdad and Kathleen Guan discussed with the audience how the data platform, algorithms and dedicated apps enable to connect a whole food supply chain. This chain embraces consumers whom receive specific diet recommendations, local production of their chosen fruits and vegetables, and smart logistics solutions to bring all in an effective manner to the consumer. The digital and data innovations are a central element in this connected and customized chain.

4TU-Redesign Tenure Trackers and PhDs meet in Twente (13 October 2023).

Since this autumn, the teams of the four new High Tech for a Sustainable Future (HTSF) programmes are at full strength and will be able to start their high-tech research on themes such as the heat-free city, personalised healthcare, green sensors and the food system of the future.

Caroline Figueroa is tenure tracker in project 4TU-Redesign. Learn more about her research and career path as she takes the spotlight in this article by 4TU: https://www.4tu.nl/en/news/news/brightful-minds-2/

The 4TU-Redesign consortium discussed crossovers with other 4TU programs during the 4TU HTSF crossover event on the 9th of June in Woerden.

The kickoff for project 4TU-Redesign was a success