UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE
Profile
A world-leading University whose mission is to contribute to society through the pursuit of education, learning, and research at the highest international levels of excellence.
Competences & Capabilities
- World-class research expertise across the whole food value chain from farm to fork;
- Collaboration with colleagues worldwide; including large-scale partnerships with Europe, Asia, Africa and America.
- Engagement with peer institutions, governments, NGOs and policy-makers to translate research into global benefit;
- Promotes the interface between academia and business, with a global reputation for innovation;
- At the heart of one of the world’s largest technology clusters - the ‘Cambridge Phenomenon’ has created 1,500 hi-tech companies.
UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE
Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EA, UK
North-West
Country: United Kingdom
Contact
Queralt Gonzalez
kicfood@admin.cam.ac.uk
+441223(3) 35535
Partner in the following EIT Food projects
MAKE-IT!
We will achieve this by: Convening a network of ‘maker spaces’, providing collaborative spaces to make, learn, explore and share, for hackathons and further prototyping resources; Designing and delivering a series of hackathons across Europe where different stakeholders come together to find solutions to identified industry challenges in specific value chains; Training professionals to be able to develop entrepreneurial capabilities across the food value chain in Europe
Algal Biotechnology Techniques and opportunities for the sustainable bio economy
The workshop in 2019 will run for two days at the University of Cambridge Algal Innovation Centre (AIC) followed by courses at Iceland, Germany and Southern Europe
Favuleux: Developing Fava bean as a sustainable source of high quality protein for food, through optimized genetics, farming & processing
Fava bean is a grain legume which is welladapted to Northern Europe, and is relatively cheap to grow
Venture creation as part of food related trade and scientific events II
The participants will learn the art of creation by building and testing their own strategy instead of listening to theory as well as the opportunity to find others to launch a startup with
Food tech transitions: reconnecting agrifood, technology, and society
Funded in collaboration with EIT Food, the Summer School is the outcome of the partnership between both academic and industrial partners: Universität Hohenheim, Queens' University Belfast and Cambridge University, together with Energy Pulse Systems and Puratos
Food Innovation Lab - EIT Summer School 2019
The “Food Innovation Lab” aims at guiding interdisciplinary teams of students and young professionals through an innovation process – from identifying challenges, developing consumer-centric solutions to prototyping in the laboratory and business model development
GLAD - Green Last Mile Delivery: a more sustainable way for food home delivery tailored to consumer needs
The objective of the GLAD activity (Green last mile delivery) is to develop both a strategy and a platform that helps making the last mile in food e-commerce at the same time sustainable and adapted to consumer needs while taking into account the economic reality
MIDSA - MIcroencapsulated Diets for Sustainable Aquaculture
However, bivalve industry growth is falling behind fish aquaculture due to critical defects in the production process
WE Lead
Representation in the sciences and technology is even more dismal with as little as 7%-9% women tech entrepreneurs in countries in Europe
Pollination deficit: Catalysing company action to ensure food and nutrition supply chain resilience by securing wild pollinators
Over three years this programme will enhance global food and nutrition security by catalysing industry action to safeguard pollinators critical to food supply chains
Improving Food Production with Agricultural Technology and Plant Biotechnology
The course will focus on: Plant biotechnology; Agricultural technology; and Food science;
The #AnnualFoodAgenda
It encompasses a series of interactive events, which provide a space to explore food topics with large numbers of people across Europe
The development of organic supply chains that drive fair, transparent and healthy options for the consumer
On a global basis the amount of fraud occurring in the organic supply system is growing rapidly and issues are appearing on a weekly basis
The FutureKitchen Virtual Reality and EatingHealthy Video Infotainment Series
Incorporating smart kitchen devices developed by our very own RisingFoodStars, the Future Kitchen series provides an immersive experience keeping you up-to-date on everything you need to know about food, including sustainability, the journey from ‘farm-to-fork’, eating healthy and cooking, and innovation in the food sector
IValueFood
Novel approaches will be used to engage with next generation audiences: students from primary school to university
Professional Development Framework
This activity will propose a framework, consult with partners, and run five pilot programmes to provide examples of development for different constituents: graduates, established employees (technical and managerial), top talent, and entrepreneurs
EIT Food Accelerator Network
Once you have applied for FAN, you will go through a rigorous selection process where you will be judged by a series of experts including successful entrepreneurs, investors and experts from the agriculture and food industries