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The Feed - October 2024 Hello joe,   If you attended Next Bite 2024, we hope you enjoyed it as much as we did! With over 900 attendees, 132 exhibitors, and more than 2,000 meetings, we want to thank you all for making Next Bite a huge success. Visit the event page for key highlights, event photos, and details for Next Bite 2025, happening 15-16 October in Brussels.   This month, The Feed focuses on how nutritious, diverse food choices can benefit people and the planet. Right now, healthy food options are not accessible to everyone, and industry faces challenges in scaling up products that are affordable, nutritious and sustainable.    How can we enable healthier lives through food? Find out by reading on.  The EIT Food Team

News and Insights

Uniting thought leaders, entrepreneurs, and practitioners from across the food system. Taking the Next Bite into the future – EIT Food announces new innovation opportunities Get a recap from the event

The challenges of drought impacting farmers and food production led to BeadRoots: a startup developing a solution to help plants thrive using hydrogels.  Let's entrap the water Discover the solution The masterclass brought together entrepreneurs, mentors, and past participants at Impact Hub Istanbul. EWA Masterclass in Türkiye celebrates five years of impact Learn more about the event

Impact and Inspiration

EIT Food Project: LILAS4SOILS  Over the course of 5 years and supported by €11.6m in funding, LILAS4SOILS will work across 6 countries to foster collaboration among farmers, agrifood businesses, researchers and local authorities, co-creating and implementing Carbon Farming Practices (CFPs).  Find out more about the project

Healthier Lives Through Food How can we increase the uptake of balanced, sustainable, and healthy diets? How can we address health inequalities across Europe? Take a deep dive into this insights report, produced by experts within the EIT Food community.  Learn more about our mission

Events and opportunities

🚀 Now open! EIT Food Fast Track to Market 2024 [Deadline 26 November 2024]  Fast Track to Market is a new opportunity to get your food innovation product or service to market quicker and enhance your commercial success.  Get your application in now

💼 Deep Tech Skills Days [12-13 November, Warsaw, Poland] If you are an educator, researcher or professional committed to promoting deep tech education in Europe, join us at the flagship event of the EIT Deep Tech Talent Initiative. Join us in Warsaw

🧬 Futures of Food through Biotechnology and Bioprocessing [November 20, Helsinki, Finland] During this event, selected startups from this year’s EIT FAN Helsinki acceleration programme will pitch their innovative solutions for plant-based and animal-free food alternatives, as well as sustainable bioprocessing technologies for cultivating animal-based products at the cellular or molecular level. Register now

Innovation spotlight

Notpla raises over €25M to scale sustainable packaging solutions The London-based startup is aiming to transform the packaging industry with its regenerative packaging solutions, which use seaweed and plants to create nature-based packaging that offers direct replacements to many single-use plastics. Discover the science behind Notpla

Consumer perceptions on personalised nutrition You will likely have heard about personalised nutrition – it's already a gigantic deal in the food business. But what do consumers really think about this growing field? Go in-depth with personalised nutrition

Watch this

AMPLE: Strengthening food security through community action Watch interviews from inside a Madrid workshop equipping disadvantaged communities with entrepreneurship skills for a career in the food industry. Watch the video

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