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EIT Food’s new flagship event, Next Bite, took place in Rome, Italy, earlier this week. It is being slated as a unique opportunity for the world’s largest food innovation community to share knowledge, foster collaboration and accelerate innovation across European food systems.
Over two days, over 900 attendees attended the event, which saw thought leaders, entrepreneurs and practitioners from the F&B industry share knowledge and innovative perspectives on the future of food.
“The ambition for this community is growing,” says Richard Zaltzman, CEO of EIT Food. “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.”
EIT Food announced the winner of its third annual Corporate Startup Collaboration Award. The award recognizes corporates based on the ease of their collaboration with agri-food start-ups. Thirty companies were nominated from Europe and different parts of the food system.
The winner was 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.
Meanwhile, EIT Food officially launched the International Alliance for Impact Data. It will convene the Alliance to help develop internationally adopted and accepted standards for food environmental scoring.
The Alliance will work to ensure that companies and supply chains can apply one standard for compliance across multiple geographics.
During Next Bite, EIT Food announced 15 winners of the 2024 EIT Food Accelerator Network Tech Validation Awards.
€50,000 was awarded to the following European start-ups:
€30,000 (US$39,000) was awarded to:
The winners aim to use the funding to run projects that accelerate technology, working closely with EIT Food’s network of partners, universities, research centers, facilities and resources across Europe.
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is partnering with EIT Food, Europe’s leading food innovation initiative, to launch a new agri-food accelerator program for start-ups in EBRD’s EU economies.
The new hub in Warsaw will join the EIT Food Accelerator Network, opening opportunities for start-ups not only locally but across Europe and beyond. Start-ups selected for this accelerator will benefit from the extensive expertise and resources of EIT Food’s network, which includes industry-leading corporates, research institutions and universities.
In addition, these start-ups will have the unique opportunity to access potential investments of up to €1.5 million (US$1.9 million) from EIT Food, helping them scale their innovations. This initiative strengthens the network’s global reach, with a newly launched hub in Brazil this year marking EIT Food’s first expansion outside Europe.
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