For SMEs and Corporate Partners
SMEs & Corporate Partners
Collaborate with us
Through a close relationship, allow IFNC to become your informed business partner.
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Tap into wide pool of science and technologies. |
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Facilitate access to funding opportunities and foundation grants. |
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Engage with our talents and have visibility on promising spin-offs. |
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Access to select community events with our network. |
Where we contribute
Sustainable packaging
Bio-based materials
Smart packaging
Engineering & Processing
Degradation
Sustainability assessment
Consumer behaviours
Precision nutrition – Healthy ageing
Metabolism & nutrition
Sensing & monitoring data
Computational biology
Protein engineering
Neurosciences
Digital epidemiology
Food system digitalization
Machine learning & AI
Blockchain
Complex systems simulation
Hyperspectral imaging
Robotics & photonics
Sensors & tracking
Our approach
We take a modular and flexible project-based approach, leveraging cross-industry expertise to help our partners solve complex transdisciplinary innovation challenges.
Our approach
By connecting EPFL’s research expertise with the industry know-how, we aim to generate research and innovation around food and nutrition and translate it into real collaboration opportunities.
Check out the list below to find out what we have in store for you.
With a privileged access to the IFNC Industrial Board, our members can truly influence EPFL research programs related to food and nutrition. They also have access to events and conferences and can closely collaborate with EPFL’s scientists and start-ups. IFNC membership is reserved for companies active in the food and nutrition industry.
Want to work on a specific project that meets your needs? Take part in the IFNC Joint Research Program, which consists of a close collaboration between science and industry. Through a well-defined projet and statement of work, all parties are working together to achieve concrete outcomes.
Through diverse discovery and research programmes, non-competing members of the center work together on common issues.
Latest activities
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.
