{"id":2382,"date":"2019-10-29T08:49:25","date_gmt":"2019-10-29T08:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/?p=2382"},"modified":"2019-10-29T15:58:36","modified_gmt":"2019-10-29T15:58:36","slug":"growing-kent-and-medway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/2019\/10\/29\/growing-kent-and-medway\/","title":{"rendered":"Growing Kent and Medway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">The School of Biosciences at the University of Kent, are part of the \u00a318m bid led by East Malling Research (NIAB-EMR), termed Growing Kent &#038; Medway. <\/p>\n<p>The University is part of a new consortium working to develop a business case to strengthen Kent and Medway\u2019s position as the UK\u2019s leading region for the production and processing of high-value foods and plant-based compounds.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/news\/science\/21794\/kent-part-of-consortium-developing-regional-research-and-innovation-cluster-for-high-value-foods\">https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/news\/science\/21794\/kent-part-of-consortium-developing-regional-research-and-innovation-cluster-for-high-value-foods<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The National Fruit Show held at Detling recently, provided the opportunity for the consortium, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.growingkentandmedway.com\/\">Growing Kent &amp; Medway<\/a> to further engage with businesses in the horticultural production, food processing and technology sectors.<\/p>\n<p>Head of School, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/people\/1186\/robinson-colin\">Professor Colin Robinson<\/a>, visited the show, giving his support and\u00a0working with the bid partners on the day.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"kent-social-links\"><li><a href='http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/2019\/10\/29\/growing-kent-and-medway\/&amp;t=Growing Kent and Medway' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-facebook' title='Share via Facebook'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='http:\/\/twitter.com\/home?status=Growing Kent and Medway%20https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/2019\/10\/29\/growing-kent-and-medway\/' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-twitter' title='Share via Twitter'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/share?url=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/2019\/10\/29\/growing-kent-and-medway\/' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-google-plus' title='Share via Google Plus'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='http:\/\/linkedin.com\/shareArticle?mini=true&amp;url=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/2019\/10\/29\/growing-kent-and-medway\/&amp;title=Growing Kent and Medway' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-linkedin' title='Share via Linked In'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='mailto:content=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/2019\/10\/29\/growing-kent-and-medway\/&amp;title=Growing Kent and Medway' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-email' title='Share via Email'><\/i><\/a><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The School of Biosciences at the University of Kent, are part of the \u00a318m bid led by East Malling Research (NIAB-EMR), termed Growing Kent &#038; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/2019\/10\/29\/growing-kent-and-medway\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5212,"featured_media":2385,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[80390,124],"tags":[80447,14,184238,70,136251,80425],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2382"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5212"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2382"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2389,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2382\/revisions\/2389"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}