An important component of all CRCs is ensuring research results are used by industry and that they have real impact on the way we do business. It is also important to measure this impact.

The FFW CRC is committed to doing this for the Australian food industry in a way that doesn’t just rely on annual conferences, final research reports and participant newsletters. Whilst these very important communication activities will still take place, the FFW CRC intends to be innovative and inclusive when it comes to communication, industry engagement, research extension and training.

The Industry Connection Hub aims to:

• increase industry engagement in food waste reduction through promoting FFW CRC research findings and identified training opportunities.
• contribute to achieving the objectives of the FFW CRC by providing the opportunities and knowledge for Hub members to train at least 125 industry representatives per year for the next 10 years (with the goal that those trained will implement at least one new piece of knowledge, technology, method or process into their business or place of employment).
• identify industry training program outputs that will be used by industry to ensure that their business and their workforce are better skilled, new knowledge created by CRC research is applied to industry and industry have the necessary skills to take up R&D results from the CRC.
• be the vehicle in which to conduct the Training Needs Analysis to identify skill and training gaps.
• be the vehicle in which the CRC’s portfolio of communication and extension materials are used by CRC organisations to adopt food waste innovations.
• broaden industry networks for the FFW CRC as an organisation.
• tap into existing powerful networks and channels direct to industry.
• establish a platform to support the implementation of the National Food Waste Strategy.