In a mission to spur innovation activities through concrete idea development and testing, NTN Innovation Booster cultivates a culture of open innovation to build the next generations’ Swiss Food Ecosystems.

NTN Innovation Booster – Swiss Food Ecosystems, powered by Innosuisse, is an initiative supporting open innovation. The focus on open innovation shall support the development of new solutions to agrifood challenges ranging from GHG emissions, food waste and nutrition. And in doing so, Swiss companies get a competitive advantage and create important added value for the Swiss economy and society.

CHF 21.3 Mio was funded to the initiative to develop 1000 radically innovative ideas from 2021-2024. Out of which, they expect to support 600 new innovative ideas and enable 200 follow-up projects.

Join their webinars

Discover how to boost your innovation process and prepare all your questions for the upcoming NTN Innovation Booster. You only need 30 minutes to know how you can be part of the solution for the next generation’s food ecosystem.

Upcoming dates:
 

• 08. Feb. 2021, 17-17:30 (FR)
• 15. Feb. 2021, 17-17:30 (EN)
• 18. Feb. 2021, 17-17:30 (FR)
• 04. March 2021, 11:45 -12:15 (EN)

CONTACT

Suisse Agro Food Leadinghouse
Passage du Cardinal 11
1700 Fribourg

innoboost@swissfoodecosystems.ch

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Farmy, the largest selection of fresh produce in Switzerland, achieved huge growth of 170 per cent in 2020 amid the pandemic.

During the Covid-19 pandemic, Farmy has seen high consumer demand for healthy and local food delivered conveniently to their doorsteps. This resulted in an almost triple turnover in 2020 from 9.7 Mio CHF to 26 Mio CHF, all while saving 400 tons of CO2.

To ensure demands for security and contactless transactions are met, the company had to expand its logistics; increasing the workforce from 133 to 220 employees, moving into larger confectioning centres and investing in additional vehicles and refrigeration capacity. Meanwhile, Farmy Co-CEO Tobias Schubert praises his team’s flexibility and excellent internal IT competence that ultimately helped them achieve this great feat.

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AgroSustain is a one-stop-shop solution for biological plant protection. Based at the Agroscope Institute of Changins (State of Vaud), the company aims at reducing food waste while ensuring everyone has access to healthy foods.

As the world focuses even more on sustainable and organic food production, AgroSustain offers to extend the freshness of crops by more than 20 days. This results in a significant drop in food waste, the third-largest producer of greenhouse gases in the world. Its first product, AgroShelf+, prevents mould from attacking crops, post-harvest, without affecting the taste.

The idea first started with co-founder and CEO Olga Dubey when she first learned about anti-fungal compounds. She wanted to offer a natural product to the market that could potentially replace chemical solutions while ensuring the safety of humans and biodiversity.

Meanwhile, AgroSustain’s research team of highly qualified PhDs with expertise in chemistry, plant biochemistry, and molecular and evolutionary biology, are working closely with institutions like the University of Lausanne and Agroscope to develop products for pre-harvest crops.

Find out more:

AgroSustain
Agroscope, Batiment AO, Route de Duillier 50
Nyon, Vaud 1260, CH 

For inquiries, you can contact them here.

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