Ypsicon, part of the EIT Food KIC winning consortium
The European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) has announced the European consortium FoodConnects is the winner of a pan-European competition on the Food4Future call: EIT Food. Ypsicon is part of the winning consortium through the RisingFoodStars startup club. Over the next 7 years the consortium will invest close to 1.2 billion euros, matched with up to 400 million euros financed by the EIT, to develop the foods of the future.
EIT Food has broad coverage in EU member states and associated countries and is a unique partnership of 50 leading companies (among them PepsiCo, Nestlé, Bosch and Siemens), startups such as Ypsicon through the RisingFoodStars startup club, universities, and scientific partners covering the entire food value chain. With the consumers as change agents, each of them is committed to jointly transform the way in which we currently produce, distribute and consume our food.
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