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
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 (…)
News
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.
New Dietary Recommendations for Switzerland
A healthy lifestyle includes a balanced and varied diet. The Swiss Dietary Recommendations take a holistic approach: the consumption of fresh, healthy foods, an active lifestyle and sustainability. The Swiss Food Pyramid provides a visual aid for the Dietary Recommendations to help consumers put these into practice.
Building a blueprint of metabolic health – from mouse to human
The findings from EPFL scientists highlight potential pathways that could be targeted for therapeutic interventions, and underscore the importance of genetics in metabolic health. By translating these findings from mice to humans, the study paves the way for personalized approaches to managing and preventing metabolic syndrome.
Events
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.
SFNV Impact Forum: Food & Nutrition Security
Zero Hunger by 2030: that was the target of Sustainable Development Goal 2. Despite the looming deadline, in global terms we are far from reaching that aim. One in 11 people worldwide went hungry in 2023, with the number rising to 1 in 5 in Africa. Globally, we have seen an alarming rise since the (…)