Centre for Sustainable Nutrition Innovation (INES)
Thinking ahead together in the organic farming and food sector
Welcome to the Centre for Sustainable Nutrition Innovation (INES) at Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development!
We are a scientific institution that offers a platform for exchange and binding cooperation between practice, teaching and research as a long-term procedural and social infrastructure. INES opens up a space in which teachers, researchers, students and practitioners can experiment together and develop and test innovative solutions for sustainable food systems.
Practice-based teaching and application-orientated research take up (sustainability) topics from practice. The partnership-based learning processes and results benefit everyone involved: practitioners, academics and students. In this way, INES exemplifies HNEE's transdisciplinary focus and our understanding of → sustainability transfer.
As a basis, INES establishes and maintains a lively practice-teaching-research network in which researchers, teachers and students work together with practitioners from all areas of the organic agriculture and food industry, food crafts, community catering and with actors from civil society, education, consulting, politics and administration.
Our goal is to drive forward the necessary innovation processes in the organic food and farming sector and in the food system and thus make the entire value-added chain sustainable.
Potato variety comparison in the field on 22 August 2023.
Organic Agriculture & Marketing
Researcher explains the use of a drone to practitioners.
Our values: co-creation, equality and diversity
INES offers an open platform for transdisciplinary, impact-orientated collaboration between teaching, research and practice. For us, an important quality feature is that all participants are on an equal footing. We want to create a working environment in which everyone involved is valued and are guided by the → mission statement of the university.
In co-creative processes characterised by a mutual, partnership-based exchange of knowledge, ideas and experience from science and practice, HNEE scientists and students develop → sustainability solutions together with practitioners. The results benefit everyone involved - a real win-win!
Transdisciplinary research, in which non-scientific partners are closely involved in the development of research questions and the research process, is particularly relevant for transformation-oriented approaches in the agricultural, food and nutritional sciences.
from the report of the German Council of Science and Humanities
Perspectives in agricultural, food and nutritional sciences
