EIT Food West

Are you interested in tasting some plant-based fish? 🐟 Meet Koralo, an EIT Food startup based in Germany that creates sustainable, carbon-neutral, plant-based f!sh from microalgae and mycelium! This product is perfect for steaming, grilling and frying and is delicious no matter how you decide to cook it. 😍 Intrigued to find out more? Visit our Q&A blog ➡️ ➡️ https://bit.ly/4cTWqQA

Food industry careers can come in all shapes and sizes, but there are common barriers and opportunities that professionals experience when advancing their skills. Whether you're dreaming of becoming a chef, launching a new food product, or thinking about how to increase the impact of your current food industry career, there are challenges that all stakeholders must overcome. Find out more about how to advance a food industry career 👉 https://bit.ly/3AwJsKY #foodindustrycareer #foodindustry #careerpath

We are really pleased to read this reflection piece on our Regenerative #Aquaculture Course published by Margarita Sidorova from Canadian Cosmetic Cluster https://bit.ly/3VbggRp 🚀 This course is a 3-week intensive programme which provides training and theory in #seaweed farming, finfish, shellfish and #algae biology, culturing, growth and molecular and metabolite analysis. The course is in collaboration with our partners Seaweed Academy, Scottish Association For Marine Science and Polish Academy of Sciences 🌊 "This course really highlighted the power of bringing together people with different skills but a shared goal. If you’re looking to build a strong, well-rounded team, this is the kind of program that makes it possible." - Margarita Sidorova, Canadian Cosmetic Cluster 💙

Food ingredients Europe... Thank you for being a spectacular event! Surrounded by 1500+ exhibitors and over 25,000 passionate people, the show floor was the perfect place to network and connect with likeminded organisations with the same mission as us. Highlights from the event include: 🚀 Our West Director Gulsah Uysal was part of the Women's Networking Breakfast alongside Dr. Susan Kleiner Samantha Garwin and Francesca Berry, who shared their personal stories about success within the food and drink industry and gave the audience an opportunity to mingle and meet fellow empowering, female allies. "As women, we need to celebrate our successes, not put them on the back burner!" - Gulsah Uysal 💪 🚀 Our Ecosystem Manager Laura Elphick shared the stage with our startup BettaFish (represented by Leonie Wagner) to discuss how innovation and collaboration can build a better food system. This session shared the success story of BettaFish and highlighted opportunities that can lead to collaboration and success. "My biggest takeaway is the value that comes from giving the spotlight to those EIT Food has supported. It was fantastic to hear Leonie Wagner from BettaFish on stage, to learn about their startup journey and developing their #plantbased fish products. There is a resilience about small and innovative businesses that we can all learn from." - Laura Elphick ✨ 🚀Our Head of Corporate Venturing Dr. Christoph Mandl was part of a panel discussion about top trends driving investment where we learned about opportunities and innovations to keep an eye out for. 🚀Our Senior Corporate Venturing Manager Marie Brueser who was part of a #petfood spotlight discussion, explained how open innovation helps our partner Mars Petcare find relevant partners. 🚀 Congratulations to our partner Cargill who won Pet Food Innovation Award and Future Foodtech Innovation Award! And to our startup Yeastime S.r.l. for winning the Most Innovative Foodtech Solution Award!🏆 #FIEurope, you were a pleasure!

Would you like to find out how you can join as a partner in the world’s largest agrifood innovation community? 🚀 We are holding an online webinar that explores partnership opportunities and EIT Food’s core activities and initiatives. This webinar will provide key insights into: ⭐ An overview of our innovation, education, public engagement and entrepreneurship activities ⭐A live Q&A session with our partnership team, where your questions will be addressed directly ⭐New initiatives and future opportunities for collaboration ⭐Some key examples from partners about their success stories with EIT Food ⭐The diverse partnership models at EIT Food 📌 3 December 2024 10:00 - 11:00 CET https://bit.ly/4emflEt

We would like to highlight one of our excellent Community Members here at EIT Food West... NUTRITION & SANTE S.A.S! 🚀 Their ambition is to feed the future. They design active and nutritional solutions for the well-being of the body and mind, which have the best nutritional profiles as possible but with the lowest impact they can have on the environment. Nutrition & Santé produces more than 500 recipes from its 11 production units: in France and Spain! 👏 Not too long ago, they joined us for a workshop alongside numerous other organisations, working on the future of ultra-processed foods and exploring the potential of innovation and technology within this area. 🔎 Are you interested in finding out more about their work within this space? 👉 https://bit.ly/4gR03tA #nutrition

Welcome to the Seafood Revolution! 🐟 Meet Revo Foods, an EIT Food startup that provides 100% plant-based seafood made from premium products with great nutritional value. 🌱 They help to reduce overfishing and relieve pressure on the marine ecosystem, whilst providing delicious and sustainable produce, suitable for many. 🌊 With their creative technology, Revo Foods fosters innovation and celebrates life within a great community of artists, scientists and seafood lovers. 💚 Find out more about their product here in our Startup Q&A Series! ➡️ https://bit.ly/3MtRual

Have you heard of our Community Member Kerry? 🚀 They are a world leader in the food, beverage and pharma industries, with 22,000+ people and 150+ innovation and manufacturing centres across 30+ countries! Every day they are creating a world of sustainable #nutrition by making food and beverages better for people, communities and the planet.🍎 Kerry is part of our corporate venturing and FAN programmes here at EIT Food. This means that as a corporate partner, they have access to our pipeline of #startups which enhances potential collaboration opportunities. ✨ “We see innovation as critical to the development of a sustainable and trusted food system. The collaboration opportunities that EIT Food provide will help enable the development of nutritious, great tasting sustainable foods and help drive the changes required for the future of the food and beverage industry” - Kerry Find out more about them here 👉 https://lnkd.in/eeCZdjyF

🥁 We are excited to announce that the top 9 companies for the Mars Challenge on Fibre Valorisation have been revealed! In August, we launched an open innovation Challenge with our EIT Food Strategic Partner Mars Petcare to find organisations who could transform insoluble vegetable fibres into material which can be digested by cats and dogs. We had 49 applicants including startups, established companies and research organisations and it was tough to select the best ones! But the top 9 companies are... 💫Green Spot Technologies 💫Kaffe Bueno 💫Lignopure 💫Peter Cremer Holding GmbH & Co. KG 💫Aquanzo 💫aspratis 💫Biorefinery Solutions 💫BioscienZ 💫Nofima A big congratulations to the selected candidates! 🎉 These organisations were invited to a demo day and tangible next steps are now being planned with a number of them. We’re excited to see a real challenge turn into action and a quick solution for Mars Petcare! 🍾

A study funded by EIT Food and conducted by the Universität Hohenheim, with contribution from ProVeg International, have identified many motives, drivers and needs for further development of plant-based food markets in Europe. 🌱 The list of arguments entertained by companies, NGOs and communities is long, ranging from benefits on personal and global health to positively impacting climate change with individual food choices. 🍎🥕 The top 3 drivers that persuade consumers to opt for #plantbased alternatives are: 💚 Health reasons 🐄 Sustainability & animal welfare 🧠 Curiosity Download our report here to find out more: https://bit.ly/4di15Mg #vegan #eitfood #proteindiversification