The project has four general objectives valid for the ten traditional products from Africa:

• To reach comprehensive scientific knowledge  of the existing know-how on technologies, processes and products.

• To propose improved traditional processes by a reengineering of the unit operations  with the aim of improving the safety and nutritional quality while keeping or improving the organoleptic characteristics of traditional products.

• To reach objective criteria of acceptability of the traditional products by the consumers  and to ensure that the products can effectively access the EU markets in view of regulatory and ethical issues while also protecting the intellectual rights of the people in Africa.

• To present the results into ready-to-use information for food companies  including SMEs via guidelines on quality management, food law and regulation and consumer protection and to transfer the results to the stakeholders from Africa and from the EU.