Period
since 2002

Background
Regional food implies short ways of transporation. Regional food implies added value for the region. It sustains rural agriculture as well as small- and medium-sized manufacturing business and thus sustainable economic structures. But regional food has to compete in a hard price competition being accelerated by the concentration on the food sector. In 1997, the Foundation has already initiated the regional marketing project "na(h)türlich"? in order to strengthen the region. The experience made in this project is now used for the new project "Regiomarché"?.

Target Group
Consumers in the Euregio region (Germany, Belgium, Netherlands)

Description
Regiomarché is an Interreg project supported by the European Union. Since 2001 this project strives towards a bundling of regionally offered food. In cooperation with its partners in Belgium, Luxemburg, Netherlands and Germany, a structure for the marketing of regional food is under construction. An innovative, trilingual website provides the customer with any information concerning products, producers and points of sale. Common logistics facilitate the exchange of goods.

Partners
Aachen Foundation (project management)
IG Regionale Produkte e.V. (D)
(community of interests for regional products)
Landwirtschaftskammer NRW (D)
(Chamber of Agriculture Rhineland)
Mergelwind e.V. (D)
Province of Limburg (NL)
Raupe V.o.E. (B)

Status
In summer 2005 the cooperative society "Regiomarché"? has been founded in Eupen (B).