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The university is recognised as a leading international centre of knowledge focused on higher education and research within environmental and biosciences. NMBU currently has 1800 employees, and almost 6000 students (580 at PhD level).

Core areas of research are environment, sustainable development, how to improve human and animal health, renewable energy sources, food production, and land- and resource management.

The IROB operates under the University Research and Innovation Center (EKIK), which fosters technology transfer and innovation across different domains.   

Animalia is providing Norwegian farmers and the whole of the Norwegian meat and egg industry with knowledge and expertise through domestic animal inspections and veterinary health services, business-critical technical systems, research and development projects, e-learning and training activities, communication and other knowledge-sharing.

The core of Animalia’s business is impartial work financed by sales tax on meat and eggs. It also receives income from projects and other assignments.

DTI has locations throughout Denmark as well and offices in Sweden and Poland. DTI occupies a crucial position at the point where research, business, and the community converge. Its mission is to promote growth by improving interaction and encourage synergy between these three areas.

It has over 1,000 employees, making it one of the world’s most significant private institutes to supply approved technological services such as consultancy, tests, certification and training for companies and public-sector organisations. It has over 10,000 customers from 65 countries.

MRI employs 200 scientists with a research focus on investigating the quality rating of foodstuffs in terms of nutrition, physiology and health, food safety and bioprocess engineering. MRI’s research relates to the entire production chain and targets the safety, quality and sustainability of food production. Investigations cover the whole process from the moment of harvesting through to the consumer. In addition to its headquarters in Karlsruhe, MRI also conducts research at its centres in Kiel, Detmold and Kulmbach.

The Institute of Safety and Quality of Meat (MRI, Kulmbach) is a department of the MRI, which has been a world-wide reference in the field of Meat Science and Technology since its foundation in 1938. It has around 75 employees including 25-30 scientist that conduct research dealing with the entire vertical process chain of meat, from harvest to consumer. The ultimate goal is to ensure the quality and safety of meat and meat products as well as eggs for consumers. In this respect, different viewpoints of process quality during meat production such as the effect of treatments and processing, nutrient and indulgence value, processing quality of the raw product as well as microbiological safety and hygiene are considered.

A part of this work consists of developing and deploying theories and methods for understanding and implementing sustainability in society. NORSUS performs applied research and development across six theme areas, one of them is food products and packaging with regard to environmental and resource use.

The institute consists of 25 scientific staff, mostly with a background in engineering, environmental sciences and management of natural resources, but also some with social science competence (including work life studies).

The idea is that we control robots or machines using signals that would awake robot services, rather than use preloaded programmes. This way robots can benefit from human intelligence in solving ever more complex industry challenges. This approach is somewhat new and different from the “usual way” industrial robots are used. Robots can become tools that humans can use to provide their services remotely, and Byte Motion specialise in creating movements which are human-like in their nature.

Their 3,500+ Developers are located in the Delivery Centres across the globe, provide their clients with a range of services including Enterprise App Development, Quality Assurance, DevOps, R&D, Big Data & Analytics.

It was established in 2003 as a spin-out from ABB and has since then been privately owned but maintained strong business ties to ABB using their robot portfolio as a basis for offerings and solutions. The head office is close to Stavanger in south west Norway.

In 1977 it changed its activity to a pork cutting plant, packing room and cold stores. It currently processes ca. 25,000 pigs each week and is one of the most important food manufacturers in the south of Spain, specialised in the production, cutting, packaging and sales of pork meat.

It produces fresh and frozen pork products, in addition to offal. FACCSA has customers distributed through Spain and in countries on four continents, which constitutes around 50% of its market abroad. FACCSA’s customers range from small butcher shops to big retailers’ chain and meat processors.