EIT Food West

Have you got Food ingredients Europe in your calendar? Let's connect at the event! This event offers endless opportunities to create new connections, generate leads, expand your community and discuss trending topics and food trends. 🚀 Pop over to our booth (Hall 4, Stand 41K, 62) to meet some of our EIT Food West colleagues, including those from our Communications Team and our Partnership Team. Connect with our Region West Director Gulsah Uysal in the morning at the Women's Networking Breakfast. 🍵 Attend a session on how innovation and collaboration can build a better food system, hosted by our Ecosystem Manager Laura Elphick. Our groundbreaking startup BettaFish will be on stage for this session, ready to talk about their success story. 📍 Messe Frankfurt, Germany 📅 November 19th - 21st ➡️ https://bit.ly/4dOHAvV #fieurope #foodtrends #startups

Happy Halloween! 🎃 Have you got any pumpkins at home that are uncarved and still fresh? Don't throw them away! ❌ Instead, why not consider reducing food waste and think about doing one of the following? 🍂 Get crafty in the kitchen and turn your pumpkins into delicious meals! Why not try and make a pumpkin soup or pumpkin pie? You can find lots of interesting recipes online. 🍂 Save your pumpkin seeds to add to your recipes! Did you know that pumpkin seeds contain protein, healthy fats and antioxidants? 🍂 Donate your pumpkins to others! As long as they are still fresh to eat, many foodbanks, farms, animal sanctuary's and zoo's will take your pumpkins off your hands and pass them on to others that will find them useful. #autumn #pumpkins #foodwaste #halloween

A warm welcome to 5 new Community Members... 2811, TUA West, HiPP-Gruppe, Valensina GmbH and Klueber Lubrication 🚀 2811 is a platform for social and ecological change that promotes the regenerative development of communities in harmony with the planet. 🌍 TUA West connects knowledge institutions, governments and companies to strengthen the knowledge-driven economy in West Flanders in a future-oriented manner. 🤝 HiPP-Gruppe is a family business that's been bringing the best organic baby food to families for 60 years. 🍼 Valensina GmbH is one of the leading fruit juice companies in Germany. 🍎 Klueber Lubrication offers expert tribological solutions by supplying high-performance specialty lubricants directly to customers in almost all branches of industry and regional markets. ⭐ We're excited to have you as part of the community and to see what the future holds for our partnership! #eitfood #foodinnovation

#DidYouKnow that adding whole grains to your #diet is a simple way to: 🍞Improve your nutrition thanks to bioactive compounds and high levels of dietary fibre. 💪Keep your body and gut healthy. 🌎Help the planet by having a lower environmental impact than other products. 🩺Help reduce the risk of several chronic diseases. Our partner European Food Information Council (EUFIC), in collaboration with the Whole Grain Initiative, is raising awareness about the benefits of whole grains to inspire more people to enjoy them. Want to learn more and join the November challenge? Sign up here 🔗 https://bit.ly/3C7VriJ You’ll receive weekly tips, insightful information and delicious recipes!

Healthy ageing is not just about extending life expectancy – it's about enhancing the quality of life during those golden years and reducing the economic and social need for public health services and resources like hospitals later in life. Food and nutrition play a key role in ensuring health and wellbeing extends to all ages. Explore some of the key solutions across Europe here 👉 https://bit.ly/3MvNvKq #nutrition #healthandwellbeing #healthyageing

Find out from Oli Hilbourne, Operations Director at Outfield Technologies, how they help to reduce food waste. This startup have created an orchard management system to help farmers forecast their fruit yield🚜 Their drone technology flies over orchards, counting produce and collecting data that can predict yield, helping farmers to make informed quantity decisions that can be made to reduce the likelihood of food loss and waste. 🗑️ Collaboration across different fields within the food system, with people who have different expertise and skills, is important to have a stronger rate of success for transforming the future of food. 💚 #foodwaste #foodloss #dayinthelife

Ready to dive into a week of insights and networking? ⚡ Join us in Helsinki this November! Kick off #Slush with us and dive into the future of female-led innovation in Europe at the #INNOVEIT conference on 19 November 2024. Women entrepreneurs are at the forefront of reshaping industries and driving change. Discover how they’re pioneering new solutions and setting the course for tomorrow’s tech landscape! Continue your journey at the #EITCommunity booth 6C5 at Slush on 20-21 November! 🚀 Connect with our representatives and meet cutting-edge start-ups, including the winners of this year’s AI Challenge. Don’t miss our “Grow your community“ unparalleled networking experiences! 💛 Register here for the hybrid INNOVEIT conference: https://bit.ly/3YLgcdA EIT - European Institute of Innovation and Technology Slush

Reduce, reuse, recycle. ♻️ Following the 3 simple R's is a way to take action in order to reduce waste and promote sustainability. 🌍 Find out more about recycling and overcoming the global production and destruction of plastic here 👉 https://bit.ly/4dLPvti #RecycleWeek #ReduceReuseRecycle #WasteReduction

And that's a wrap! Thank you to every single person who was a part of our biggest event of the year, #NextBite24. It was a real success, and we couldn't have done it without you. (Important information about Next Bite 2025 at the end of the post, keep reading.... 😉) And it feels even more significant that today is #WorldFoodDay! 🌍 We hope all of you, who either attended as a participant, were part of the organisation team or were part of the programme, feel proud of yourselves for being a part of positive, crucial change and are happy with your experience in Rome. Collaboration is key. We will always strive to support others and keep building our EIT Food community so we can make the best impact on our food system.💚 Our favourite key takeaways from Day 2 include... 🚀 From the 'Unwrapped: Consumer perceptions of cultivated meat and precision fermentation' session, we learned from Durk Bosma, Head of Insights, Consumer Observatory Consumer, that acceptance needs to be earned, it’s not a given. People are still reluctant to trying new food products that may not be seen as the 'society norm' such as cultivated meat. We must continue to understand how we can influence others to try something new, by providing them with essential information regarding different factors such as taste, carbon footprint, health impacts... 🚀 With challenges such as labour shortages and long development cycles for new food products, the role of AI is becoming more crucial. AI is poised to transform the food industry by optimizing production processes, enhancing safety, and addressing inefficiencies. Thank you to the four following innovative startups who presented their cutting-edge solutions, showing how AI is already reshaping the food system: iComplai - Early Warning System for Food Supply Chain, Inspectle Food, New Wave Biotech and Veridi Technologies BV. 🏆 A huge congratulations to the 15 startups that won the 2024 EIT Food Accelerator Network Tech Validation Awards! We hope to see you for Next Bite 2025 which will be hosted in... 🥁 🥁 🥁 BRUSSELS by Region West! ❗ Do you have any ideas for workshops, panels, pitches or presentations? We want to hear them. Get in touch with Frank Horlbeck at frank.horlbeck@eitfood.eu if you would like to be involved. Did you attend Next Bite? 👉 Leave a comment below and let us know your highlight from the event, we would love to see your photos! 📷 #foodsystem #foodinnovation

Next Bite Day 1 - Complete ✅ There is an ever growing need for innovation, which we are here in Rome to tackle together. As our EIT Food CEO Richard Zaltzman said today, "There is hope for change when you give it space to grow..." 🌍 Today was full of exciting discussion, networking and bringing #innovation ideas to light. This incredible opportunity has allowed us to come together as one to work towards a more sustainable food system, and it makes us eager to continue to dig deeper into important topics tomorrow! 🚀 "EIT Food is bringing a powerful network of partners together (here) at Next Bite, in order to change the food system and to connect with the best #startup ideas for the market.” EIT Food CPO, Viktoria de Bourbon de Parme. 3 of our favourite key takeaways from Day 1 include... 🌱 Regenerative agriculture can work at scale. 🌱 Startups are now and the future. From sugar alternatives to protein diversification to food waste reduction and more, startups should be supported with bringing their innovations to industry. 🌱 Collaboration is the key to success. Without bringing people together and utilising key skills from different industries, the challenge of change for our food system is harder. We must listen, talk and learn from one another to achieve the ultimate goal of a more sustainable and healthier planet. A special thank you to the 30+ West partners that attended our West reception this morning. It was great to have time to connect on a more personal level before the big event kicked off! 💚 What was your highlight of Day 1? Let us know in the comments! #nextbite24 #foodsystem #foodwaste #proteindiversification