Past editions

In 2024, over 170 Food Solutions students worked to tackle the following industry challenges:

• EcoBite Delights: Adding diversity to bakery and patisserie goods for a more inclusive food system.
• Pea-licious: Developing veggie protein delights for healthier children challenge.
• ZeroWaste Design: Reducing food and packaging waste for a sustainable supply chain challenge.

In 2023, over 100 Food Solutions students worked to tackle the following industry challenges:

• Develop tastes: Developing new product concepts for better taste.
• Develop healthy food: Developing new products for a healthier lives challenge.
• Reinvent specialities: Re-inventing local food specialities for a circular economy challenge.

In 2022, over 100 Food Solutions students worked to tackle the following industry challenges:

• 'Processing4Health': Designing and developing new health-promoting and shelf-stable processed food products.
• 'Reuse2Recreate': Developing new product concepts from bakery and/or fruit side streams.
• 'Reuse2Repack': Rethinking food packaging for regenerating resources.

A previous Food Solutions cohort were provided a challenge by Colruyt Group to create new, innovative food products from residual materials. Read more about the students' work and how they tackled that challenge here!

Take a look at some of the highlights from Food Solutions 2020 in the video below: