To sustain the activity of improving food quality, nutrition and safety, the SEAFAST Center is actively engaging in many mutual partnerships; between food industry; government and non-government organizations.

Mutual partnership has been done in many different forms; such as

• Consultation and/or problem solving,
• Technical assistance,
• Product and process development,
• Processing technologies/pilot plant facilities, and analytical services.
• Commodity and/or food product focus,
• Marketing and business plan assistance,
• Involvement of government partners,
• Regulatory information,
• Employee training, and
• Development of industry centers at universities.

In many of its activities; the SEAFAST Center has developed an association with a very dedicated and talented food technologists, food scientists; nutritionists from Bogor Agricultural University , especially, from Department of Food Science and Technology and Department of Community Nutrition .

Interested in developing mutual partnership with SEAFAST Center?

Generally, mutual partnership between SEAFAST Center and other parties is developed through general model ( see Flow Chart ), as the following:

Initial Consultation: The Center recognizes the importance of working with our client to clearly define the requirements and identify cost-effective and technically viable solutions.

Proposal: Once an agreement has been reached on the overall definition of the project, the center will assign its staffs to prepare a proposal; and submitted to our client for review. This proposal will clearly define the scope of work, methodology, project management, project cost, time and payment schedules, and deliverables.

Contract: Work on mutual partnership project will begin when we have entered into a contract with our client. A designated project leader will keep our client informed of the work in progress to ensure that the project is implemented and completed to your satisfaction.

Risk Management: most of our mutual partnerships are research and development (R&D) type of works. Work on R&D has a high degree of inherent risk, and often there is no assurance of complete success at the beginning of a project. SEAFAST Center deal with this situation by building specific check-points and reviews into our work plan. Joint client-project manager reviews of results are held to ensure our client project objectives are being met, or to discuss changes in direction, if necessary.

Again, interested in doing mutual partnership with SEAFAST Center?

Please contact us our co-directors at any time :

Director for SEAFAST Center
Purwiyatno Hariyadi, PhD
hariyadi@seafast.org