[vc_row row_space=”remove_padding”][vc_column][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][gva_block_heading title=”About GIQS e.V.” style=”style-2″ align=”align-left” desc=”Internationalisation is also a major challenge for the agri-food industry. National borders prove to be obstacles to transparency, quality improvement and process optimisation. At the same time, questions for research and development arise which can be better answered in cooperation with other organisations. On the initiative of the Universities of Bonn (NRW) and Wageningen (NL), GIQS (Grenz\u00fcberschreitende Integrierte Qualit\u00e4tssicherung e.V.), a non-profit and international network was established in 2001. In the meantime, GIQS has established itself as a strong network in the agricultural and food sectors.”][vc_single_image image=”5815″ img_size=”870×366″ css=”.vc_custom_1568315173485{margin-bottom: 45px !important;}”][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/2″][gva_icon_box title=”Tasks” description=”We are partners in value chains and networks in the agricultural and food industries in the planning, preparation, implementation, processing and transfer of the results of joint research and development projects.” icon_position=”left” icon_width=”fa-3x” margin_bottom=”margin-bottom-2″ image=”3996″][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/2″][gva_icon_box title=”Target groups” description=”Our cooperations take place between science, business and administration and correspond to the public-private partnership approach. As an open platform, GIQS offers all private and public organizations the opportunity to participate.” icon_position=”left” icon_width=”fa-3x” margin_bottom=”margin-bottom-2″ image=”3993″][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/2″][gva_icon_box title=”Members” description=”Members of GIQS e.V. are universities and scientific institutions, public authorities and professional organisations, companies along the food production chain from agriculture to retail, their suppliers and service providers as well as interested private individuals.” icon_position=”left” icon_width=”fa-3x” margin_bottom=”margin-bottom-2″ image=”3990″][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/2″][gva_icon_box title=”Funding programmes” description=”GIQS has applied and\/or coordinated projects in the following programmes: EU INTERREG A, EU INTERREG C, EU Research Framework Programme, BMBF, BMELV, BMWi (ZIM-Nemo), EU Objective 2 Programmes, BLE Innovationsprogramm, Landwirtschaftliche Rentenbank.” icon_position=”left” icon_width=”fa-3x” margin_bottom=”margin-bottom-2″ image=”3996″][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n