April 7 of each year marks the celebration of World Health Day. The day coincides with the foundation of the World Health Organization. From its inception at the First Health Assembly in 1948, and since taking effect in 1950, the celebration has aimed to create awareness of a specific health…
Yesterday ended the COSMOPOLITES Hackathon. We started in September with 26,000 young people aged 16 to 18 years from across Italy. The final hackathon included 500 young people, and their incredible ideas, competing on solutions to eight important issues. One of the most exciting moments of the past few months!…
Future Food Institute is honoured to host the “Hungry Book Club”, a free 3-week series featuring renowned experts on human behavior, the impact of technology, well-being, and food and lifestyle trends. Author Eve Turow-Paul and guests discuss the impact of ANXIETY, LONELINESS, and a search for PURPOSE on food and…
“MAKEit is about creating huge numbers of innovations, speedy projects for transformation. By including the Makers’ culture, MAKEit wanted to improve the entire chain starting from continuous prototyping“. With these words, Shima Barakat, Director of the Entrepreneurship for Sustainability Program at the University of Cambridge, introduced one of the most interesting and…
Future Food Institute returns to Maker Faire Rome, the largest Show & Tell in Europe! The unprecedented situation of 2020 has prompted us to rethink business models and lifestyles to such an extent that even the food of the future will not be the same. This MAKEit initiative embodies the sustainable focus of the…
The increase of visibility of actions the food chain, including agriculture, innovation and the use made of Industry 4.0 in ensuring the health and safety of the food we consume, is not surprising due to COVID-19. In this context, the commitment of those who talk about innovation and the positive…
After the success of the Spanish edition in 2019, the first edition of the Italian Journalism Award’s purpose is to encourage work from media professionals (Press, Radio, Television or Internet) in their work associated with agrifood values, and particularly those that constitute the objective of this Award. Healthy and affordable…
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations [FAO] and the Future Food Institute are developing joint advanced learning programs, including a digital boot camp and hands-on experience supported by a series of masterclasses, open conversations, hackathons and FAO e-learning courses, multilingual and accessible to all, anytime, anywhere, made to transfer knowledge, skills, and competencies and…
Join a global discussion with celebrity chefs, indigenous peoples, youth climate activists, small farmer businesswomen, heads of state, and everyone in between, on how in the next 10 years we must transform our food systems. Nutritious and safe food allows for healthy and productive lives, and the myriad of ways…
Four graduates in Computer Science from the University of Bologna cared about the problem of waste and in the last year have been involved in the recovery of food in the catering sector, connecting end consumers and shops. This is SquisEat, the startup that won Hack4Food – To Feed The…