Public food sector strategies & procurement in Lithuanian regions & municipalities
Roundtable meeting in Rietavas 
Venue: Rietavas TVIC, Parko str. 5, LT 90311 Rietavas
Date and time: Thursday February 13, 2020, 10 am - 4 pm
Info and registration (deadline February 10): Rasa Baliuleviciene, vadybininke@rietavovic.lt, phone 00 370 64017312
Public sector driving food development is a theme of one of the three work packages in the project SBFOODINNO.
The objective in this work package is to generate growth in food SME based on public food market, where cross-border and trans sectoral activities act as a case for developing and implementing ways to innovate and stimulate growth in Food SME based on public market in the South Baltic Region.
Different public sector institutions, municipalities, universities, clusters and small and medium sized enterprises (SME) in the regional food sector gather for discussions, inspiration and international knowledge bridging.
Program:
| 9.30 – 10.00 Welcome coffee | |
| 10.00 – 10.10 Welcome by host | Presentation 1 |
| 10.10 – 10.25 Introducing SBFOODINNO project: the activities and share the knowledge & results with focus on Public sector driven food development & Plant proteins | Presentation 2 |
| 10.25 – 10.35 Rietavas TVIC journey in SBFOODINNO and upcoming events | Milk Road Journey Map |
| 10.35 – 11.35 I round of discussions: Lithuanian municipality strategies towards SME on food. | Presentation 3 |
| 11.35 – 11.45 Coffee brake | |
| 11.45 – 12.45 II round of discussions: Findings & Learnings, Good cases |  |
| 12.45 – 13.00 Summarizing by facilitator and next steps – follow up event in Rietavas | |
| 13.00 – 14.00 Lunch | |
| 14.00 – 15.30 Workshop – Food System Mappings | Food System Mapping model |
| 16.00 End of Round table meeting |
Invitees (the list is constantly updated):
• Rietavas TVIC
• Association “Milk Road”
• Kaunas University of Technology
• Telsiai County Business Incubator
• Klaipeda University
• Vytautas Magnus University Agriculture Academy
• Lithuanian National Food Cluster
• Klaipeda Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Crafts
• Association “Klaipeda Region”
• Rietavas Municipality
• Plunge Municipality
• Telsiai Municipality
• Mazeikiai Municipality
• Silale Municipality
• University College Absalon, DK
• Copenhagen University, DK
• Representatives of farmers and SME in Samogitia Region