OnePlanet Research Centre

OnePlanet Research Center is a partnership between Wageningen University & Research, Radboud University, Radboudumc and imec – a Flemish R&D center for nano and digital technology. Experts in agrifood and health technology are developing smart innovations to contribute to healthy eating and living, and to make the entire agrifood chain more sustainable by implementing precision production. 

OnePlanet Research Centre focuses on four themes:

• Data-controlled food and health – In the area of food and health, new sensor technologies and models that gather personal health data are developed. This information is then translated into personalized nutritional advice that contributes to a healthier lifestyle, or that is adapted to specific situations (e.g. hospital admittance or pregnancy)
• Health and behavior – Day-to-day habits have a large influence on health and wellbeing. Increasingly, technology is making it easier for both individuals and groups (such as families) to fully understand their situation, to help them achieve their goals and to increase social cohesion. In this innovation program, solutions and analytics are developed that:
  • help people realize their goals in areas such as (mental) health, fitness, sport, body weight and productivity,
  • assist and guide patients in the way they function on a day-to-day basis,
  • support care professionals and in-home caregivers.
• Precision production and processing – To make sustainable food supply a reality, affordable and scalable sensor technologies are needed to be developed. This will enable us to conduct large-scale, yet distributed, measurements in domains such as (livestock) farming, food processing and environment (soil, air and water quality). These sensor technologies can also be applied to areas such as robotics and smart systems.
• Customized supply chain – Ongoing digitalization will enable us to shorten the food chain, reverse it and make it more sustainable. This is done by:
  • controlling production, based on personal demand,
  • introducing new packaging methods that have smart built-in functionalities (ingredients, origin, freshness, etc.),
  • striking a balance between local and global production so that residual flows disappear, and environmental impact is reduced,
  • making the food chain, food quality and food origins more transparent.