Donostia - San Sebastian. 7/05/2010. AZTI-Tecnalia's CEO, Rogelio Pozo, and the chef Pedro Subijana, representing the restaurant Akelarre, signed a framework collaboration agreement in San Sebastian designed to create synergies to complement the scientific capacities and gastronomic knowledge of both parties with a view to carrying out R+D+Innovation projects in the development of new foodstuffs and food and culinary technologies.

In order to generate innovative proposals, the collaboration framework includes the exchange and joint use of technologies, scientific instruments and technical infrastructure. So the headquarters of AZTI-Tecnalia in the Technology Park of Bizkaia (Derio), equipped with avant-garde scientific and technological infrastructure will be the venue from which an effective response to the present and future needs of the food industry will be facilitated. Specifically, a pilot plant with a surface area of nearly 1,000 square metres for setting up industrial processes on a pilot scale, an experimental kitchen with culinary and food technologies to develop products, and 13 cutting-edge laboratories have been put at the service of the research that is carried out.

This co-operation agreement will also involve the exchange of personnel, as well as of information and documents and mutual consulting. Work will also be done on the joint preparation of publications, patents, etc.

The technology centre and the restaurateur have been working on this project for over a year. It includes working together on research projects linked to the study of new foodstuffs and technologies applied to the gastronomy and food sector.

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