Meeting of the Cluster of Lublin Medicine with the company SilvExpo LTD. as part of the ProVaHealth project

On June 27, 2019 the Lublin Municipality, as the Lublin Medicine Cluster Coordinator, hosted the visit of representatives of the Latvian company Silv EXPO LTD. The visit took place as part of the international project  ProVaHealth – Product Validation in Health has been implemented by the Municipality of Lublin.

The purpose of the meeting was to present the results of tests of functional food products. Lublin Medicine Cluster, as one of the 14 Living Laboratories created as part of the project, was responsible for carying out tests of solutions in the scope of functional food. The tests included i.a. design, manufacture and sensory analysis of three products (candies, oil and jellies) based on provitamin paste from conifer extract.

During the meeting, representatives of the Medical University of Lublin and the University of Life Sciences in Lublin – members of the Lublin Medicine Cluster – presented current research topics conducted by universities. Partners discussed potential areas of cooperation with Silv EXPO LTD.

The Municipality of Lublin City, as the coordinator of the Lublin Medicine – Medical & Wellness Cluster, implements the project “ProVaHealth – Product Validation in Health”. The project has supported from the Interreg Region of the Baltic Sea Program 2014-2020 co-financed by the European Union under the European Regional Development Fund. More information about project you can find: scanbalt.org/livinglabs/, http://medycyna.lublin.eu/provahealth/?lang=en.