The objective of the European S3 Partnership Food packaging is to establish a European collaboration between (i) clusters, (ii) industrial stakeholders in the whole food packaging value chain (e.g. food and packaging companies, packaging machine suppliers, retail, sorting- and recycling companies, among others), (iii) research and technology organizations, (iv) consumer organizations, and (v) government institutes. This partnership will lower the barriers for the agri-food and packaging industry to access and implement new sustainable and smart packaging technologies and innovations. This will support the food packaging industry to build new value chains, and thus facilitate and accelerate the European transition to sustainable and smart food packaging.

This Partnership is unique in Europe by building a strong cross-sector network between the quadruple helix actors in the European food packaging value chain.