EIT Food announces new innovation opportunities at flagship food systems event
Taking place 15-16 October 2024 in Rome, EIT Food’s all-new flagship event, Next Bite is a unique opportunity for the world's largest food innovation community to share knowledge, foster collaboration, and accelerate innovation across European food systems.
With over 900 attendees over two days, the event has been uniting thought leaders, entrepreneurs, and practitioners from across the food system to share knowledge and innovative perspectives on the future of food. EIT Food is supported by the EIT, a body of the European Union.
Sessions at the event have taken place over three stages, exploring topics aligned with EIT Food’s three missions of: Healthier Lives Through Food, A Net Zero Food System, and Reducing Risk for a Fair and Resilient Food System.
The ambition for this community is growing. We need to think about impact – change that makes a difference. For this we need three ingredients: hope (e.g. the start-ups), inspiration (e.g. pioneer farmers, entrepreneurs), and connections.
Richard Zaltzman, CEO, EIT Food
Collaborative companies recognised
EIT Food has announced the winner of its third annual Corporate Start-up Collaboration Award, which recognises corporates based on the ease of their collaboration with agrifood start-ups. 30 corporates were nominated from across Europe and from different parts of the food system.
The winner has been announced as the Südzucker Group. Based in Germany, Südzucker is the largest sugar producer in the world, and produces a wide range of food and animal feed products.
Alliance launches to standardise eco-labelling
EIT Food has officially launched the International Alliance for Impact Data. EIT Food will convene the Alliance to help develop internationally adopted and accepted standards for the environmental scoring of food. The Alliance will work to ensure that companies and supply chains can apply one standard for compliance across multiple geographics.
Rewarding innovative start-ups
During Next Bite, EIT Food announced 15 winners of the 2024 EIT Food Accelerator Network Tech Validation Awards.
EUR 50,000 was awarded to the following European start-ps:
- AgroGrIN Tech – which collects and transforms the by-products produced by farmers, post-harvest and processing industries, into bio-based, clean-label ingredients, which are fulfilling the food, nutraceutical and cosmetic industries.
- Esencia Foods – which is pioneering the way for sustainable and healthy food options in Europe by developing whole-cut, mycelium-based fish and seafood alternatives.
- NOOVI – which offers a globally unique line of marking pheromones 'Pheromark' that prevent pests from laying eggs on crops, without using any toxins.
- Pack2Earth – which offers biobased circular economy materials for the packaging industry.
- Primogene – which produces bioactive ingredients unique to human breast milk and proven to be crucial for infant development for safe and tailored nutrition to optimally support the growth and development of premature infants.
The winners will use the funding to run projects to further test and accelerate their technology, working closely with EIT Food's dynamic network of partners, universities, research centres, facilities and resources across Europe.
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