The IFNC offers to its members, partners and collaborators many opportunities to learn, discover, exchange ideas, foster innovation or gain visibility.
You’ll find below our latest publications grouped into 3 categories: Opportunities, News and Events.
Feeding your innovation pipeline
Opportunities

Tech4Regen Call for Applications 2025
Are you a startup developing cleantech solutions to tackle environmental and climate challenges? Don’t miss the opportunity to join Tech4Regen 2025 at EPFL Innovation Park – an 8-month, equity-free program designed to accelerate your impact.

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.
News

Tech4Regen Call for Applications 2025
Are you a startup developing cleantech solutions to tackle environmental and climate challenges? Don’t miss the opportunity to join Tech4Regen 2025 at EPFL Innovation Park – an 8-month, equity-free program designed to accelerate your impact.

Symposium – Feeding the microbiota 2025
Participate in the 10th edition of the microbiota symposium dedicated to exploring clinical and personalized nutrition through discoveries about the gut microbiota. This symposium aims to bring together doctors, scientists, healthcare professionals, and industry players who share a common interest in the nutritional modulation of the microbiota and its profound impact on energy metabolism.

Cryogenic microscopy could help strengthen food security
“Our research provides the first visual proof, at the cellular scale, of how plants protect themselves against excess of sodium,” says Dr Priya Ramakrishna. Better understanding the mechanism and working out why some species are more tolerant to sodium than others could allow to develop new strategies to strengthen food security.
Events

Symposium – Feeding the microbiota 2025
Participate in the 10th edition of the microbiota symposium dedicated to exploring clinical and personalized nutrition through discoveries about the gut microbiota. This symposium aims to bring together doctors, scientists, healthcare professionals, and industry players who share a common interest in the nutritional modulation of the microbiota and its profound impact on energy metabolism.

State of Play Cultured Foods 2.0
Cultured foods offer a promising solution to some of the most pressing food system challenges. They also present a very significant market opportunity: experts predict that by 2050 cultured food could be a $1.1 trillion dollar industry, creating 9.8 million new jobs globally…

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.