Upcoming Events There are no upcoming events at this time. View all events News Food & ag entrepreneurs can now sign up for the FoodNexus Startup Challenge The FoodNexus Startup Challenge is a European contest and support program that will identify and accelerate the most promising food & ag startups in Europe. Prize of 50,000 Euro The FoodNexus Startup Challenge consists of national selection rounds in seven... Launch of European Start-up of the Year Challenge More than 500 participants were present, when Martijn van Dam, The Dutch Minister of Agriculture gave his speech and officially launched the challenge. In this challenge, initiated by FoodNexus, we’re looking for the most promising food or agrotech start-ups in... Call for ideas: Urban food from residual heat The competition serves as a crowdsourcing mechanism for four Swedish municipalities: Malmö, Lund, Oskarshamn and Bjuv; who are looking for solution proposals of all kinds, relating to all aspects of the project. The competition has been given significant backing by... Engaging in digital conversation with consumers on diet and wellbeing Among others, Agnès Giboreau from Institut Paul Bocuse shared the institute’s approach and methodologies on interacting with consumers and further understanding people’s meal situation experiences, for instance by using the app-based FLOW tool, which provides the institute with insight on... 3 projects in preparation At breakout sessions three areas were described and resulted in the three projects. Coordinators were selected for each one as well as suggestions on how to fund them were discussed. Laurence Shalloo, Research Officer, Teagasc, is to lead the ICT... One step ahead for new education models The objective of this first project, ’Boosting relevant and applicable continuing education in the food sector’, is to establish a 3-staged online and blended learning platform for co-creating and implementing flexible continuing learning for -and with- food professionals across Europe,... Five ‘Ready-to-go’ projects take off ”We’re quite overwhelmed with the interest and enthusiasm shown in our project ideas”, the leader of the group behind the project ”Gentle processing and zero waste”, Unilever R&D director Marcel van der Vaart, admits. The five FoodNexus projects reflect the... Full house at the FoodNexus General Assembly, January 2017 FoodNexus will help transform the European Food industry to create a trustworthy system that delivers sufficient, safe, affordable and nutritious food. 17 January there will be a reception from 19:00 with time for networking. 18 January the General Assembly starts... foodnexus-partners-join-forces-hong-kong-polyu-global-food-safety A milestone in the scientific collaboration on food between Europe and China was achieved when the Joint Centre was set up by Lund University, Sweden, and the Hong Kong Polytechnic University earlier in 2016. The initiative is now growing, with the... A European Collaboration A European Collaboration FoodNexus is a European alliance of top companies and knowledge institutions, committed to innovation and competitiveness, while solving major societal challenges. The FoodNexus Consortium covers a large range of European countries and regions. The collaboration is organised... « Previous 1 2 3 Next »
