📦 Rethinking packaging: Moving towards sustainability

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The Feed - December 2024 Hello joe,     Welcome to the December edition of The Feed, bringing you the latest news, insights, and innovations from EIT Food and the wider food system.  What an inspiring year it has been for food systems change! Let’s celebrate the progress achieved, while recognising that big challenges lie ahead. We look forward to driving even greater impact in 2025, together.     This month, we’re focusing on labelling and packaging. With UN member states recently failing to reach a deal to end plastic pollution, innovation in sustainable food packaging and labelling has never been more crucial.     In this edition, explore courses on packaging, insights into consumer perceptions of eco-labelling and debates on transitioning to sustainable packaging.    We hope you enjoy,  The EIT Food Team

News and Insights

With EU support, early-stage startups will receive assistance to scale green solutions in the agrifood sector.  EBRD and EIT Food launch a new accelerator Hub for agrifood startups  Submit your application

Explore the issues with single-use plastic food packaging and discover the inspiring people developing sustainable solutions.  The ultimate guide to food packaging: sustainability issues and solutions Learn more The successful startups were selected for their innovative approaches to plant-based solutions, regenerative agriculture, sustainable packaging and food waste reduction.  Winners of the Marketed Innovation Prize announced Explore the winning startups

Impact and Inspiration

The International Alliance for Food Impact Data and its goals for labelling The Alliance brings a unique opportunity for coordination between stakeholders to create environmental scoring standards for the food and drink industry.  Learn about the Alliance

The Agrifood Expert Community of EIT Food AFEC is a platform where food R&D specialists connect, share, and tackle challenges in agrifood, from business and innovation to research. Want to be involved? Explore the options here

Women-led deep tech startups receive just 15% of seed funding  The study shows that while the number of women founders in deep tech has doubled since 2010, this still represents only 17% of startups. Download the report

Events and opportunities

🖼️ NEB Catalyse is seeking innovative ventures integrating sustainability, inclusivity and design [Deadline: 3 February 2025] The EIT Community's New European Bauhaus (NEB) initiative has opened its doors for the Catalyse programme once again!  Discover the programme

💼 Senior leadership development for food system change [Deadline: 25 February 2025] SystemShifters offers a unique, hands-on opportunity to explore systems leadership and learn how to trigger tipping points in the food system.  Apply now

🚀 Impact Funding Framework  [Deadline 14 March 2025] If you’ve got an idea that will change food systems for the better, we want to fund it.  Find out more

Innovation spotlight

Salus Optima: Personalising canteen menus for improved employee health  An innovative digital solution that empowers people to make informed dietary and lifestyle choices. Discover the solution

Plastic-free food packaging: where do we stand? Is it reasonable for us to expect food producers to start switching out plastic for more sustainable packaging materials? Explore the facts

Whitepaper: will consumers accept a universal eco-label with open arms? Labelling can empower consumers make informed choices that will benefit the planet.  Read the whitepaper

Listen to this

Can Lewandowski, Co-founder of Crafting Futures, talks to us about the issue of single-use plastics and how his company is attempting to change consumer habits through systems change and material science innovations. Listen now

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