What is co-creation?
Co-creation is a collaborative development practice that fosters exploration, interdisciplinarity, and sharing. This practice generates positive outcomes through the creation of synergistic partnerships between companies, associations, research institutions and government agencies. These experience and perspective-sharing opportunities promote a deeper understanding of challenges and highlight opportunities for improvement that benefit the entire ecosystem.
1. Distribution of surveys to business in the food processing sector from across Quebec.
2. Unique form of co-creation workshops allowing food professionals and researchers to exchange.
3. Dynamic meetings ensuring an active participation of all stakeholders.
Unexpected Benefits
The co-creation process begins when food companies from all sectors, covering the entire processing chain, are surveyed to identify emerging themes. Interdisciplinary research teams then assemble to formulate innovative solutions to the highlighted issues. This unique approach has several advantages:
- The information collected helps define the most current needs in order to maximize positive impacts.
- Fostering safe spaces helps better understand industry realities and encourages the sharing of experiences and knowledge.
- Continuous exchange between partners makes refining research proposals and adapting plans possible.
- Networking between participants can lead to new partnerships and collaborations outside the context of the RITA Consortium, strengthening the industry network.