The project submitted under s.M 16.4 and entitled "DEVELOPMENT OF THE LOCAL MARKET IN THE AREA OF THE LOCALITY OF CRISTIAN, BRADU, TILIȘCA, SIBIU IN THE COUNTY OF SIBIU, BASED EXCLUSIVELY ON INTEGRATION OF SHORT CHEESE SUPPLY CHAINS" has as main objective the development of the local market in the area of Cristian, Bradu and Tilișca in the county of Sibiu, through the integration of short cheese supply chains.

The project aims to improve co-operation between producers, research units and NGOs to create a local market based on short supply chains, promoting local products and increasing the competitiveness of this market.

The project's objectives include the purchase of equipment and means of transport needed to promote and market the products, as well as the organisation of events to increase the visibility of the local market.

Project partners include the Romanian Association on Food, the Research and Development Institute for Montanology Cristian-Sibiu, local farmers, and commercial and cultural organisations. The total budget of the project is €280,307, of which €248,445 is non-reimbursable funding, and implementation is planned for 21 months, starting in March 2023."

"The Romanian Association about Food with headquarters in Bucharest, Sector 1, CC ARION Street, No. 15, Et. P, Apt. 1 - project leader, is an association whose aim is to create a platform for networking between areas such as the production, promotion and commercialisation of food products, education, information, professional training for distinct categories of the public by interconnecting these categories with the aim of improving the quality of life through a positive and balanced attitude towards food.

The Research - Development Institute for Montanology Cristian - Sibiu (hereinafter referred to as ICDM) with its headquarters in Cristian Village, Cristian Commune, Sibiu County, operates under the subordination of the Academy of Agricultural and Forest Sciences "Gheorghe Ionescu Sisesti". The ICDM's object of activity is scientific research in the field of rural-mountain development, sheep, goat and bull breeding of breeds adapted to the mountain area, expansion of fruit and dendrological crops, studies, research, projects for the socio-economic development of the rural-mountain area. Research areas include "Animal breeding" and "Modernisation of industrialisation processes and valorisation of plant and animal products". According to the APIA documentation for 2021, the Institute has a number of 67 cattle and 496 sheep."

Mununar Hortensia Maria Hortensia Mununar, an individual farmer, owns a herd of 41 buffalo from which she collects raw milk. She processes the milk in a Milk Processing Centre located at her home address - Sat Bradu, Nr. 122, Oraș Avrig, County of Sibiu. The following products are obtained by processing the milk: old and fresh telemea, curd cheese, sweet cow's cheese, sour cream, butter, milk, butter, milk, cheese, creamed cheese.

Iuga Maria Iuga Maria is an individual farmer, owns a herd of 52 cows from which she collects raw milk. The milk is processed in a Milk Processing Centre located at her home address - Sat Tilișca, Nr. 244, Comuna Tilișca, County of Sibiu, obtaining the following products: telemea, cheese, cheese, cheese in fir bark, cheese with spices.

ADILUC AVANTAJ SRL - is a commercial company based in the village of Bradu, Avrig, No 504 A, County of Sibiu, which has at its registered office authorised activities for the objective of Local Gastronomic Point, where processed milk products produced by farmers Mununar Hortensia Maria and Iuga Maria will be sold

SC Sibianul Lact SRL has as its object The manufacture of dairy products and cheeses, secondary activity sheep and goat breeding, wholesale of dairy products, eggs, edible oils and fats. Unit with processing capacity of over 1000 litres of milk per day producing : Telemea, Urdă, Curd, Cottage cheese, butter.