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The cluster NUTRIPOL is an association of manufacturing and consulting firms, research and other institututions engaged in functional food and food supplements.

Cluster NUTRIPOL - basic information

Cluster NUTRIPOL: consortium of legal bodies
Address : Piletická 486/19 - airport, 50341 Hradec Králové 7 - Věkoše
Core business: CZ NACE 72190, Other research and experimental development on natural sciences and engineering

Cluster Nutripol aim is to strengthen the competitiveness of its members in three main directions:

A) increasing the innovative capacity of the common development of technological processes, which can be used more cluster members (the extraction of proteins and starches, and other interesting components, encapsulation of oils, production of glucans, glutathione, and other immunostimulatory and antioxidant products, etc.).

B) common verification procedure and the possible certification of the product cluster in the direction of allergenic security - offering services to third parties in determining the allergenicity of their product

C) common procedure in marketing. Realization of researches and experiments for "healthy claim", which significantly increases the efficiency of communication with customers and define the product being offered. These are either people who suffer from certain allergies (an increasing percentage of the population), where people prefer a healthy lifestyle. Both markets are marginal but are very dynamic in the CR and strong and stable in Europe.

Other activities of cluster NUTRIPOL offered to members:

 search and development of new resour ces (eg plant) and specific natural compounds for new product development ,

 search, definition and co-ordination of common activities beneficial for members, education of companies and public on nutrition, collaboration with reserch institutes VÚPP and V ÚVR and the Ministry of agriculture in this area,

 cooperation with educational institutions, universities, colleges, secondary schools,

 joint presentation, promotion of products under the name of a cluster (Branding),

 definition and preparation of joint projects and analysing possibilities of their co-finincing by grant titles

 collaboration with High-tech Europe, a European scientific project (FP7), aimed to raise and maintain quality and high technological level of food research the same as a production in Europe.