Global Collaborations
International Projects & Network
Foodvalley has built an extensive international network, linking partners, resources, and facilities from around the globe. Leveraging our global experience and international connections, we create conditions that foster innovation through collaborative projects.
Today’s challenges, such as the rise in lifestyle diseases and the demand for sustainable food, are global issues requiring global solutions. By tapping into these international connections, your organization can innovate more swiftly. Strengthen the ecosystem to ensure breakthrough solutions take root in the fertile soil of the food system.
Let’s connect!
The team
Focus areas
Gather intelligence & Connect
- Participate in EU projects, platforms, networks and missions
- Receive delegations and visits from Global Organisations
- Connect external players with internal initiatives
Grow innovative solutions
- Develop new initiatives within Foodvalley’s 3 innovation fields
- Apply for EU finding schemes
- Develop collaborative initiatives
- Understand regional realities and customise our approach
Explore new opportunities
- Define and shape new leading thematics
- Scout for funding schemes
- Share insights
Initiatives
Food-scalEUp
The main objective is to support all agri-food companies and associated organisations to make the leap to Industry 5.0.
Read moreContact person
Like a Pro
Relevant for
Shortening time to market
Like a Pro aims at mainstreaming alternative proteins, making them accessible, available, and acceptable to everyone and everywhere.
Read moreAurora
Aurora is a project aimed at strengthening cluster management excellence, facilitate exchanges and strategic partnering between clusters and specialised eco-system actors and cities across Europe.
Read moreFood Innovation Hub Europe
Food innovation Hub Europe is a partnership initiated by the World Economic Forum with the aim to connect parties that have a need for innovation with parties that can provide solutions.
Read moreContact person
Global FOODture
Global Foodture, a Foodvalley program, aims to accelerate the development and adoption of innovative and sustainable food solutions by connecting and facilitating collaborations between companies, startups, and research institutions in the food industry, with a target region of Asia, and providing access to resources such as funding, expertise, and facilities to drive innovation and sustainable growth in the global food system.
Read moreContact person
BioeconomyVentures
Foodvalley’s Bioeconomy Ventures program connects startups and established businesses in the bioeconomy sector to resources that help accelerate their growth and success, including access to funding, industry networks, expertise, and facilities, in order to drive the development of a sustainable bio-based economy. In addition, Foodvalley organises two Expand & Explore Workshops. These are workshops where a number of startups from Foodvalley’s ecosystem are given the opportunity to pitch their innovation in front of investors.
Read moreGO4Export
GO4EXPORT supports entrepreneurs from Gelderland and Overijssel in taking the right steps to expand their business abroad.
Read morePeer-to-Peer FinBio
Foodvalley NL participates together with 4 other European partners in the project P2P FINBIO, to improve the access to funding for bio-based SMEs.
Read moreNetworks
Foodvalley participates in European and other international networks to connect, gather insights and develop new projects.
SmartSensors4Afgrifood
Thematic Smart Specialisation Partnership that builds on the expertise of 40+ European partners (clusters and research centres) and aims to accelerate the adoption and transformation towards a digital agri-food system and in doing so foster the evolution of the agri-food sector into an interconnected, sustainable, resilient, and smart agri-food system in Europe.
https://www.ss4af.com/
European Regions for Innovation in Agriculture, Food and Forestry
ERIAFF is an informal association of regional organisations working on various themes including food systems.
http://www.eriaff.com/
Impact Europe (formerly EVPA)
Impact Europe is a network of impact capital providers and social innovators of all sorts.
https://www.impacteurope.net/
Food Innovation Hub Europe (FIH Europe)
Food Innovation Hubs are a multistakeholder, precompetitive and market-based partnership platform aimed at strengthening local innovation ecosystems to sustainably scale innovative solutions for food systems transformation. This partnership contains hubs around the world, including the Food Innovation Hub Europe.
https://fiheurope.org/
