Foodhub NRW

Exciting News: New Food Festival 2025! We’re thrilled to share details about the upcoming New Food Festival 2025, a must-attend event for food innovators, startups, and changemakers: 📅 When: March 4–6, 2025 📍 Where: University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart This event will bring together key players to discuss innovation, collaboration, and solutions for a sustainable food future. Tickets, stand bookings, and sponsorship opportunities are now available. 👉 Explore the details and join the event: https://lnkd.in/ecPkH8Wp 🎯 Get Involved! Attend and network with like-minded professionals. Share the festival with your network to support their impactful work in the food space. Tag companies or individuals who should be part of this event! Join the conversation and let’s make a collective impact on the future of food innovation. #NewFoodFestival2025 #FoodInnovation #Sustainability

Start-ups, your voice matters! Participate in German AgriFood Society‘s New AgriFood Survey 2024 to influence the future of Germany’s AgriFood sector. Insights from this initiative will directly shape the New AgriFood Report 2025, guiding policymakers, funding bodies, and investors to support meaningful change. 📢 Join the survey: Your input helps address the ecosystem’s key challenges ➡️https://lnkd.in/en4rTbEH Deadline is Dec 20. Your perspective matters. The New AgriFood Report, releasing in early 2025, will offer essential insights for strengthening AgriFood innovation in Germany. #AgriFood #Innovation #GermanAgriFoodSociety

🌱 Are you practicing sustainability while building a sustainable food system?🌱 With TransformERN, we support you in making your business more climate-friendly and future-proof. We connect stakeholders, share knowledge, and provide practical tools and funding opportunities to collectively pave the way towards a more sustainable food economy.💡 💪 Today, we want to introduce you to three programs: ➡️ efa - Effizienz-Agentur NRW – Climate check for SMEs ➡️ ZNU – Zentrum für Nachhaltige Unternehmensführung – Sustainable business management ➡️ ZENIT GmbH – Sustainability check for SMEs 👉 Discover the support opportunities and swipe through our slider, visit our website, and feel free to reach out to our contacts. We’re excited to hear from you – let’s make a difference together! 🌍✨

🌍 Climate neutrality is teamwork: we will only be able to achieve the climate targets together. Our TransformERN project, which we are implementing together with Ernährung NRW and Food-Processing Initiative e. V., therefore supports start-ups and SMEs in the agriculture and food industry in finding their way to climate neutrality. Last Monday, our project partner Svea Dr. Pacyna-Schürheck had the opportunity to present the project to the awardees of the "Landesehrenpreis für Lebensmittel NRW" by Ministerium für Landwirtschaft und Verbraucherschutz des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen.  Her message: climate targets are not a burden, but a real opportunity for innovation and future viability. The topic of sustainability has already arrived in the food industry in NRW, as reflected by the fact that over 60% of the award winners have established sustainability initiatives, from biodiversity to water conservation.  ✨ Other highlights of the event were the keynote speeches:   👉 FoodTracks: artificial intelligence in the food industry.   👉 Deutscher Ernährungsindustrie e.V.: Trends, innovations and sustainability in the food industry.   👉 Food - Made in Germany: International market development as a competitive factor for SMEs.  An inspiring day that showed how much the industry in NRW has already achieved - and how we can work together to further advance sustainability and climate neutrality! ✨ #Klimaneutralität #Lebensmittelindustrie #Landwirtschaft #Nachhaltigkeit #NRW

Congratulations to Simon Debade for winning Food ingredients Europe‘s Start-Up Challenge in the category „sustainable innovation“. Simon is the co-founder of Akoua Juice, a start-up upcycling the cashew apple - the fruit that is discarded in the production of cashew kernels. Consider that 10kg of cashew apples are trashed for the production of 1kg of cashews - turning those apples into juice and concentrate as an alternative sweetener is a big deal. For the environment, as we are making better use of the resources already produced. For the cashew farmers, which can generate more income. For cashew growing countries, which can develop new value chains. And now the jury of Europe‘s most important food ingredient show is convinced that Akoua should be considered as a sweetening agent in food & bev. Which leads us to the question: which food or beverage product manufacturer should give Akoua concentrate a try? Tag them in the comments ⬇️

Can we combat climate change with Agri-Photovoltaics? In the face of climate challenges, solutions like Agri-Photovoltaics (Agri-PV) are emerging as game-changers. This innovative technology combines solar energy generation with productive agricultural use of land. A win-win for sustainability and farm efficiency! ✅ Agri-PV reduces plant water demand while generating clean energy. ✅ Diversifies income streams for farmers, providing resilience against changing weather and rising energy costs. 🚧 High installation costs and complex approval procedures make scaling difficult. One example in NRW is the Agri-Food-Energy-Park Bürgewald by BioökonomieREVIER that showcases Agri-PV’s potential. It delivers up to 1.2 MW/ha solar power while cultivating crops like berries beneath. This project underlines Agri-PV’s role in transforming agriculture. Technologies like AI could further optimize Agri-PV, making it a cornerstone of sustainable agriculture. Check our current article on our website for more insights: https://lnkd.in/e3ExUG93 What’s your take on Agri-PV? #Sustainability #AgriTech #RenewableEnergy

Looking for curated news on agrifood innovation and the NRW ecosystem? Don't look any further! Our monthly newsletter delivers what you need to know straight into your inbox 📈 global trends that shape agriculture and food 📣 updates from NRW based start-ups and corporates 💰 new funding programs 🏆 calls by accelerators & start-up competitions 🌱 support for your own climate-neutrality and sustainability journey job openings events you should not miss This month's newsletter drops on Thursday. Sign up here if you have not yet: https://lnkd.in/epQhij_P

Two years after emerging from BASF's Chemovator, Corbiota failed to overcome insolvency and had to close its doors for good last week, as unforeseen developments halted the planned expansion to the US. The start-up, co-founded by Julia Katrin Rohde, Pascal Heithorn and Thorsten Kuehn, focused on pioneering solutions in microbiome research for sustainable livestock farming. Corbiota developed innovative solutions aimed at enhancing the health and resilience of poultry and pigs through a natural approach. By feeding live worms to these young livestock, the start-up strengthened the animals' eubiosis – the natural balance of microorganisms in their gut and immune systems. This method also activated the animals' natural instincts, promoting healthier, stronger growth and greater resistance to diseases. We are sad to see another pioneering start-up bite the dust. While their insolvency puts a screeching halt to their pilot plant and projects, the impact their approach and research will have on the future of livestock farmer is undisputed. Julia & Pascal – Thank you for being such an integral part of our community. We are sending you much strength for the upcoming weeks.

It's time again to come together in Osnabrück to innovate! On Nov. 20 & 21 our friends from Seedhouse are opening the doors to their annual flagship event for the agrifood innovation ecosystem: the innovate! convention. This year, the event offers a new, two-day, format: Day 1: 🚌 guided study tours 🏆 start-up pitches in the categories "Food Innovation" and "Ag Innovation" 💃 networking party Day 2: 💬 conference 🔎 exhibition floor ...and of course ample opportunities to discuss ideas and network! We are pumped to be presenting three of our members at our booth at the exhibition floor: Koa Switzerland & Ghana, Omnivore Recycling and NUNOS. Their solutions are ✅ contributing to a more efficient use of our natural resources ✅ making an impact by strengthening climate friendly supply chains ✅ creating value in the Global South. Want to join us? Hit us up for a 25% discount code. Just leave a note in the comments. Looking forward to seeing you in Osnabrück!

⏰ Last call to apply to the Grüne Woche Start-up Days pitch competition: application phase closes November 15! ⏰ For a period of ten days in January, Grüne Woche in Berlin is the showcase for German agriculture and food sectors, presenting the best of food & farming: from food artisans and farmstead foods to foodtech start-ups and agtech solutions. It's a great stage for your start-up's innovation! Our association will also be present with a booth in the NRW pavilion, presenting twelve of our start-ups at our booth! 🚀 For the application link for Start-up Competition, check the comments.