4th Campaign “3D Printing in Food Industry”
3D printing technology will fundamentally change the way people deal with food in the future. Personal needs and wishes can be taken into account, food additives can be used to create health-promoting products, food waste can be reduced and more environmentally friendly production can be made possible.
Whether it is changed food or changed production methods that come into play, 3D printing, also called additive manufacturing, makes it possible to establish new business models here.
On the ideation platform, participants can formulate their needs and ideas in order to subsequently identify potential for optimized solutions. Participants can team up and work together on solutions to present them to our experts. The best and most promising concepts receive a grant amount of between CHF 10,000.- up to CHF 25,000.-.
Campaign Timeline & Requirements
In cooperation with the ETH, SATW and the NTN Swiss Food Ecosystems, the potentials of additive manufacturing to produce food, enhanced production methods or open new supply chain options were discussed. Whether, for example, hybrid production systems, food additives, communicating robotics or protein-based binders are promising approaches needs to be questioned and examined. Current results, and the view on these future options led to the launch of the forth campaign in this area.
Start: Monday 24th January 2022
End: Friday 13th May 2022
Ideation platform: Link – First time registration – Guideline “How to get started”
On the ideation platform submitted needs and ideas: Link
Visibility: open to everyone
Participants inputs: needs and ideas described in rudimentary form
Support: IBAM E-Mail
Start: Thursday 28th April 2022, 13:00
End: Thursday 28th April 2022, 18:30
Invitation: Flyer / Registration
Visibility: open for registered participants
Participants inputs:
– present your idea entered on the ideation platform
Target: forming teams to hand in proposals
Workshop presentations: –
Start: Friday 29th April 2022
End: Tuesday 17th May 2022
Visibility: team only (Involved people sign a non disclosure agreement (NDA) on request)
Participants inputs:
– The teams confirm that they do not receive any other subsidies for the same project.
– Teams hand in the completely filled in proposal form until Tuesday 17th May 2022
Target: Completely filled in proposal – ready to send them to the experts
Start: Wednesday 18th May 2022
End: Friday 17th June 2022
Visibility: team, experts and key persons only (Involved people sign a non disclosure agreement (NDA) on request)
Evaluation:
– Experts evaluate until Monday 13th June 2022
Target: Teams which will be funded are nominated
Start: Monday 11th July 2022
End: Friday 16th December 2022
Visibility: team, experts and key persons only (Involved people sign a non disclosure agreement (NDA) on request)
Activity:
– Teams work on their topic and realize a prototype until December 2022
– NTN IBAM campaign manager will get a intermediate report by September 2022
Target: Final report a) open to everyone, b) visible for the persons, who sign a NDA