Call for NTN Inno Booster

Swiss Food Research has a proven track record in promoting ideas and driving innovation forward. We are active across Switzerland and closely linked to all stake holders of the Agro-Food System in Switzerland. We are highly experienced in operating with Innosuisse due to our close cooperation as National Thematic Network over the past 8 years. We are already a leading house for Innovation in the Agro-Food segment. Together with interested parties we set up a consortium to apply for the NTN Inno Booster. Application (full proposal) has to be submitted by Feb. 28th 2020. The consortium & leading house have to propose an area of interest and the theme of the NTN Inno Booster. Contact us for more inforamtion and participation!

Agro-Food Innovation Forum

The Agro-Food Innovation Forum enters the third round. After the success of 21 March 2019 with 28 start-ups and 150 participants, the date for 2020 has already been set. Keynote Speaker: Guy Parmelin.

Once again, 4 Swiss networks are joining forces to bring together innovators from start-ups, research and industry. For more information and impressions of the past events follow the link. Save the date: 16th of June 2020!

Swiss Pavilion @ Seeds & Chips

For even greater visibility and increased presence of Swiss agro-food start-ups, Swiss Food Research is co-organising participation at Seeds&Chips - The Leading Food Innovation Summit in the World with Switzerland Global Enterprise and the Swiss Consulate General in Milan under the umbrella of a Swiss Pavilion. Participating start-ups will have access to an international audience at the summit and local stakeholders in an additional cooking event downtown Milan.

Registration until 15 March 2020

Success Stories 2019

Since 2014, Swiss Food Research has evaluated 104 projects with experts and funded 57 projects with a total of CHF 507,500.
70% of the projects funded by Swiss Food Research received follow-up funding from Innosuisse.
In 2019, too, there were successful projects with ZHAW and NTB BUCHS, for example.

Future Food Symposium

SGLWT, SVIAL and Swiss Food Research will hold the Future Food Symposium on 7 February 2020 at the Technopark in Zurich. We will be looking into the future! An incredible number of start-ups, new technologies and new solutions are available for the agro-food sector today. However, it is difficult for today's and tomorrow's managers to assess which technologies and which approaches will prevail. Scientists from ETH, universities, universities of applied sciences and research institutes will present their views. The first symposium will focus on novel foods, meat analogues and packaging.

Member of EIT Food

EIT Food is a European Knowledge and Innovation Community (KIC), which was set up to transform our food ecosystem. By connecting consumers with businesses, start-ups, researchers and students from around Europe, EIT Food supports innovative and economically sustainable initiatives which improve our health, our access to quality food, and our environment. With the Swiss Food Research accession its members have access to the spoken grants.