{"id":84856,"date":"2021-12-15T08:01:11","date_gmt":"2021-12-15T06:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technion.ac.il\/blog\/food-competition-feeds-innovation\/"},"modified":"2021-12-15T08:01:11","modified_gmt":"2021-12-15T06:01:11","slug":"food-competition-feeds-innovation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.technion.ac.il\/en\/blog\/food-competition-feeds-innovation\/","title":{"rendered":"Food Competition Feeds Innovation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Technion Students <\/strong>Cook Up Creative, Tasty, and Award-Winning Food Solutions <\/strong>in European Innovation Competition<\/strong><\/p>\n

Students from the Technion\u2019s Faculty of Biotechnology and Food Engineering won top prizes in the EU-supported Food Solutions Project, which is part of EIT FOOD \u2013 a program that fosters innovation to create healthy and sustainable food for all. The premise of the competition was to take real-world nutritional and sustainability challenges faced by the food industry and come up with innovative solutions with the potential to transform the food system and promote sustainability and health. Experts and mentors from top European universities supervised the students’ progress, together with leading companies Nestle, Danone-Nutricia, D\u00f6hler, IMDEA and Puratos.\u00a0 Two of the Technion teams won first place and another came in third.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0From right to left, front row: Dr. Maya Davidovich-Pinhas, Hadar Kochavi, Christine Oviad, Professor Marcelle Machluf, Nova Neumann, Carolina Lejterer, Maayan Ben-David, Gil Raphael and Liora Bernstein; middle row: Dor Abu Hazira and Professor Avi Shpigelman; back row: Shahar Hefner, Dana Raz, Linor Rochlin, Shlomit Hakim, Victoria Skortov and Professor Uri Lesmes<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

“This win wraps up a whole year of hard work,” said faculty members and mentors Dr. Maya Davidovich-Pinhas, Professor Uri Lesmes, and Professor Avi Shpigelman. \u201cThis achievement demonstrates the excellence of students in this faculty, not only in the engineering and technological aspects, but also creatively and in their ability to deal with all aspects of the process from market research, creating a business feasibility study, addressing regulatory and marketing issues, conducting shelf-life analysis, planning the commercial manufacturing process, and of course presenting their product to experts.”<\/p>\n

This year, the Technion’s participating teams chose to tackle two challenges:<\/p>\n