“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…
On October 9-10, 2020 Innovacoop, the Legacoop Emilia Romagna company dedicated to the development and innovation of local businesses, Future Food Institute, and Bi-Rex Competence Center, one of the 8 national competence centers set up by the Ministry of Economic Development in the Industry 4.0 government plan, have organized Hack4Food | To…
Future Food Institute (Bologna, Italy), in partnership with 40 pan-European organisations, has received a 11.7 million euros grant from the European Commission programme Horizon2020, under the call “FOOD 2030 – Empowering cities as agents of food system transformation”. The main goal of Cities2030 is to future proof an effective cities…
The Year 2020 marks the 10th anniversary of the declaration of the Mediterranean Diet as intangible cultural heritage by Unesco: it is, indeed, thanks to Professor and Scientist Ancel Keys that the Mediterranean Diet became so appreciated worldwide after its studies during the Sixties and the Seventies to turn into…