Category: Opportunities

Shape the Future of Food: Apply to the EIT Food Seedbed Incubator 2025!

The Seedbed Incubator is a 6 month equity-free programme, which identifies and validates the commercial potential of Europe’s most promising IP-backed innovations, to launch sustainable and scalable Agrifood Tech ventures across Europe.

Innovation Booster: Future of Farming

This workshop provides a comprehensive overview of the integration of robotics across the food chain, with focuse on agricultural practices, and food production, complemented by interactive breakout groups for in-depth discussions and collaborative problem-solving. It encourages collaboration and innovation in applying robotics to address agricultural efficiency, and food production.

Call for proposals Food 4.0

Food production in Switzerland is facing increasing competitive pressure. A Europe-wide trend towards increasingly cheaper food is extremely difficult to contend with in view of the existing level of salary/ production costs in Switzerland. This means innovative developments for the Swiss food system are required to develop the production of safe, healthy and tasty food to ensure Switzerland remains a commercially relevant production location for food and food industry manufacturing technologies in future.

Open Exploration Workshop

Des représentants de l’agriculture, de l’industrie de transformation, du commerce, des partenaires académiques, des cantons, des communes, des citoyens et de la prochaine génération se mettront autour de la table pour créer un avenir alimentaire diversifié, résilient et durable.

FUTURE FOOD P-ACT

Future Food P-act est une initiative portée par les Innovation Boosters Swiss Food Ecosystems et Future Food Farming, soutenus par Innosuisse.
Les participants auront l’opportunité de bénéficier d’un financement pouvant atteindre jusqu’à 39’000 CHF pour concrétiser leurs idées novatrices.

Internship at Givaudan

As an Intern in Science & Technology, in the Delivery Systems group, of Givaudan’s Taste & Wellbeing Division you will work on emulsions and other encapsulation systems related topics. You will work on the formulation of liquid and solid delivery systems, prepare them with different types of equipment and characterise them. This internship is limited to 6 months and is based in Kemptthal.

Appel à projets en économie circulaire

Avez vous des idées pour rendre votre ville plus écologique et plus agréable à vivre?
L’incubateur d’économie circulaire (EC) permet aux équipes et aux startups de préparer et de développer des solutions contribuant à accélérer la transition vers l’économie circulaire en Suisse. Les entrepreneurs sélectionnés travaillent au développement de leur produit minimum viable (MVP) et à la validation de leur modèle économique, avec le soutien de conseillers, d’experts et de notre réseau d’investisseurs concernés.

Call for proposals Food 4.0

Become part of this forward-looking initiative and submit your project by 23.10.2023 to contribute to a successful future for Switzerland’s food system!
Funding will be provided for innovative implementation projects in the following main areas:
Technologies for hybrid products of different protein sources
Precision biotechnology / biotransformation
Digital transformation of the food system
Precision agriculture

ETH Joint Initiatives: Call for preliminary ideas

EPFL wishes to consider a broad range of proposals and is launching an internal call for ideas. The suggestions collected will be evaluated by the EPFL Academic Strategic Committee in the following areas:

Human Health
Responsible Digital Transformation
Advanced Materials and Key Technologies

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Future Food Initiative – Call 2022/23 Winners

In 2019, EPFL and ETH Zurich have launched Future Food – A Swiss Research Initiative, together with Swiss food industry leaders Bühler, Givaudan and Nestlé. The goal of the initiative is to expand research and education in the area of food and nutrition sciences to develop solutions that address grand challenges of the current food systems. The program is co-managed by the Integrative Food and Nutrition Center at EPFL and the World Food System Center at ETH Zurich.