In the May 2011 Silvanols Ltd. began participation of Latvian and Estonian cross-border project “Increasing competitiveness of Estonian and Latvian food industry based on new and improved local fruit and berry product development”
Primary aim of the the project is to promote Latvian-Estonian border regions' competitiveness, including the promotion of regional business activity and fruit and berry processing industry's competitiveness in Latvia and Estonia. To achieve the objectives of the project, are planned to establish a "Estonian-Latvian fruit and berry product development center" - an integrated infrastructure, which includes know-how as well as applied research and product development capabilities and equipment to improve regional fruit and berries product value chain.
The project provides Silvanols Ltd. to acquire advanced technical infrastructure and gain knowledge about fruits and berries in the use of new product development andimprovement of existing products. Thus promoting the company's competitiveness in the market. Silvanols Ltd. accomplishes project in partnership with the Estonian University of Life Sciences (EestiMaaülikooli), Pure Horticultural Research Centre, the Associations 'Kandava Partnership" and farms „Pīlādži” un „Lases”, as well as Berry Farming LLC. Estonia - Latvia Programme is implemented according to the principles of European Territorial Cooperation and it supports cross-border cooperation between Estonia and Latvia. It is funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), the Republic of Estonia and the Republic of Latvia.
Silvanols Ltd. is implementing in this project during the period from May 2011 to August 2011 and the total project funding is 168 294 EUR, of which 50% is a co-financing of Silvanols Ltd.
More information and project results: http://www.silvanols.com/en/medijiem/project-information/
About the project:
Project “Increasing competitiveness of Estonian and Latvian food industry based on new and improved local fruit and berry product development” within the European Union Structural third Objective "European Territorial Cooperation", the Estonian - Latvian border co-operation of the years 2007 -2013 program. It provides a strong Estonian and Latvian expertise, comparative trials and further development of services, both national research sectors linkage, advanced knowledge-based acquisition of Latvian and Estonian berry/fruit sector, as well as the emerging center of expertise publicity among target audience.
