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History of GIQS e.V.November 19th - 22nd, 2007: First annual congress of Q-PorkChains in Monells, Spain
November 7th, 2007: Start of the project AIDA - Alliances for information and service agencies to the horizontal grouping of functions of coordinating in the quality, health and risk management of the meat industry October 3rd-6th, 2007: 2nd Annual Congress of PromSTAP in Vidin, Bulgaria June 21st , 2007: Annual general meeting of the GIQS hosted in the premises of Euregio Rhein-Waal in Kleve (Germany) with a following German-Dutch strategy-workshop with the topic: “Private-sector and official crises and risk management” June 2007: Change of Executive director: After 5 years working for GIQS Dr. Gereon Schulze Althoff has decided to take on a fresh challenge in his career. Dr. Martin Hamer takes over the responsibility of the Executive director. May 24th, 2007: Technical advisory board of the project "Managing Risks" January 2007: Start of the project Q-PorkChains (EU FP 6) December 31st, 2006: Official deadline for the project "GIQS in Fruit and Vegetable Chains" November 15th, 2006: Official ending event for the project "GIQS in Fruit and Vegetable Chains" in the greenhouse of one of the Dutch tomato growers involved in the project in Wellerlooi, The Netherlands November 13th-17th, 2006: GIQS presents itself at the trade fair EUROTIER in Hannover, Germany October 18th-21st, 2006: PromSTAP congress in Genua, Italy June 13th, 2006: annual general meeting of the GIQS in Straelen, Germany April 27th, 2006: GIQS presents its projects in the course of the exhibition "News in Agricultural and Food Research" in the permanent representation of Northrhine-Westfalia in Brussels, Belgium March 15th, 2006: Symposium for the presentation of tools developed within the project "GIQS in Fruit and Vegetable Chains" March 7th, 2006: Official Kick-Off meeting of the project "Managing Risks" January 23rd, 2006: Expert talk concerning the "Hygiene package" of the EU and the 10 points-crash programme of the German government at the Uni-Club in Bonn, Germany, initiated by GIQS January 2006: Start of the fourth project "GIQS - Managing Risks" December 31st, 2005: Official deadline for the project "GIQS in meat chains" November 24th, 2005: Official ending event for the project "GIQS in meat chains" in the new Euregioforum in Kleve (D) October 2005: third workshop for the introduction of project results in Wageningen (NL) June 22nd, 2005: Approval of the fourth project May 19th, 2005: Annual general meeting of the GIQS in Kleve, Germany March 15th, 2005: Fourth project application: Interreg IIIA-project "GIQS - Managing Risks" March 4th, 2005: Ending event of the project "GIQS in food processing SMEs" February 28th, 2005: Official deadline of the Interreg IIIA-project "GIQS in food processing SMEs" (Project cooperation with the Rhein-Kreis-Neuss) January 17th, 2005: Approval of the application for the Interreg IIIC-initiative PromSTAP October / November 2004: Workshops for the introduction of project results in Bonn (D) and Wageningen (NL) May 18th, 2004: Annual general meeting of the GIQS in Boxmeer, The Netherlands; confirmation of the board April 2004: Submission of the application for the Interreg IIIC-Initiative "PromSTAP - Promoting the Stable to Table Approach" February 10th, 2004: The new internet presence goes online February 5th, 2004: Submission of the application for FoodtracePlus, an initiative for an integrated project within the 6th EU Research Framework Program. GIQS and a couple of its members are taking part as main partners. October 15th, 2003: Press conference presenting the project start of “GIQS in fruits and vegetable production” on a tomato growing farm in Geldern, Germany October 2003: Start of the third project: GIQS in fruits and vegetable chains September 2003: Approval of the third project: Cross GIQS in fruits and vegetable chains May 6th, 2003: Annual general meeting of the GIQS in Kleve, Germany; confirmation of the board April 2003: GIQS is invited to three research initiatives "Food Quality and Safety" of the 6th EU Research Framework Program January 2003: Third project application: Interreg IIIA project of the Euregio Rhine Maas North: Cross border quality assurance systems (GIQS) in fruits and vegetable chains December 4th, 2002: GIQS wins the award "Food Processing NRW 2002" organised by the Food Processing Initiative and awarded by the Ministry of Economy and Labour of North Rhine Westphalia November 2002: Start of the second project: “GIQS in food producing SMES” October 2002: Approval of the second project: “GIQS in food producing SMES” June 2002: Second project application: Interreg IIIA project of the Euregio Rhine Maas North: “Cross border quality assurance systems (GIQS) in food producing SMES” May 2002: Duesseldorf: GIQS is covered in the exposition "People in the Euregio" in the house of parliament of North Rhine Westfalia. May 7th, 2002: Duesseldorf: Annual general meeting of GIQS in the North Rhine Westfalian parliament March 2002: Start of the first project December 2001: Approval of the first project: “GIQS in meat chains” March 2001: first project application: Interreg IIIA project of the Euregio Rhine Waal: “Cross border quality assurance systems (GIQS) in meat chains” March 28th, 2001: Duesseldorf: foundation of the non profit organisation "Cross border integrated quality assurance" GIQS e.V., based in Kleve, Germany Founding Members: First executive committee: 2000: Brussels: First idea for the start of a Dutch-German cooperation for collaborative and trans border research in the agro-food sector. Initiation of a cross border, inter enterprise initiative on quality and health management in meat chains.
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