FIH Europe
Food Innovation Hub Europe
Relevant for: frontrunners in the field of regenerative agriculture, Protein shift and Nutrition and Health
Running time: January 2020 – now
We can only change a food system together. Local, regional, national and global parties must join and work transparently and energetically to accelerate the transition to an efficient, inclusive, sustainable, nutritious and healthy food system. To promote this collaboration, the World Economic Forum initiated together with public, private and civil society sector partners, Food Innovation Hubs worldwide. Foodvalley NL and EIT Food are leading partners of the Food Innovation Hub Europe. The hub aims to initiate collaboration and co-create innovation projects to address continent-specific challenges and connects regional hubs in the various member countries to address common and region-specific issues.
Over the past years, the Food Innovation Hub Europe has launched several initiatives:
- Regenerative Innovation Portfolio – scaling regenerative agriculture sourcing in Europe (https://foodvalley.nl/en/initiative/regenerative-innovation-portfolio/)
- Reduce and prevent obesity and malnutrition with Personalised Nutrition (https://fiheurope.org/personalised_nutrition/)
- Booster 2021: Reduce obesity with a Personalised Nutrition Approach (https://foodvalley.nl/en/initiative/reduce-obesity-malnutrition/)
More information: https://fiheurope.org/
Action Team
Left to right:
Lisa Smits – DSM
Corinne Abbas – Foodvalley NL
Jan-Paul Bruins – Unilever
Elina Coerts – Dutch Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality
Martin Reesink – Rabobank
Angelique van Helvoort – Global Coordinating Secretariat Food Innovation Hubs
Frans Kampers – Wageningen University and Research (WUR)
Tjerna Ellenbroek – Foodvalley NL
Not present on the photo:
Willemien van Asselt – Topsector Agri-Food
Serpil Tascioglu – Unilever
Florentine Oberman – DSM
World Economic Forum
The World Economic Forum (WEF), committed to improving the state of the world, is the International Organization for Public-Private Cooperation. The Forum engages the foremost political, business and other leaders of society to shape global, regional and industry agendas. The Global Coordination Secretariat supporting the Food Innovation Hubs in collaboration is based in Wageningen, The Netherlands.
Sean de Cleene, Member of the Executive Committee at the WEF: “We believe that Foodvalley NL is exactly the right partner to establish such a leading Hub in Europe. They have developed a strong ecosystem of business, knowledge institutes, governments and NGOs, with the specific goal of scaling innovations together with other innovation clusters in and beyond Europe.”
Are you interested to read more about the Food Innovation Hubs worldwide? Please visit the website for more information.
Founding partners
Wageningen University and Research, Dutch Ministry of Agriculture, Nature & Food Quality, Unilever, DSM, Rabobank, Topsector Agri-Food and Foodvalley NL are initial partners supporting the development of the activities to establish the Food Innovation Hub in Europe.
