Application Deadline: July 7th 2019
The R&D innovation challenge will take place in Côte d’Ivoire, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal and South-Africa. The goal is to work collaboratively with universities to identify sustainable and scalable science and technology solutions that help to accelerate the innovation of products that meet local consumer needs. The R&D innovation challenge calls for novel solutions across four areas: environmentally friendly packaging solutions, sustainable cocoa plantlets affordable nutrition and new routes to market.
REINVENTING FOOD DISTRIBUTION
How can your startup help
us find innovative solutions to deliver efficiently our products in key
neighbourhoods of African cities, taking into account specificities such
as lack of road assigning system or informal distribution networks and
wholesalers?
REINVENTING FOOD & BEVERAGE PACKAGING
Imagine
a future where thanks to technology, packaging will not be an issue
anymore for the planet, and where it will help improve the whole
customer journey by giving key information from the nutrients
composition of the food, to added value contents such as recipes, and
instructions for its preparation. Does your startup have a technology
that can help us create sustainable, smart and eco-friendly food
packaging?
REINVENTING PLANT CONTAINER
Plantlet is
the beginning of what will become incredible products consumed each day
by millions of people. How can your solutions and services help us in
the development of smart, cost competitive and sustainable solutions for
growing and transporting cocoa plantlets thus, impacting positively the
quality of the whole value chain.
REINVENTING MATERNAL NUTRITION
Every mom and mom to be deserves the right to have a quick access to affordable and quality maternal food. Is your startup specialised in FoodTech? How can you help us create affordable, tasty, high-density nutrients maternal food for every mom and mom to be?
Requirements:
- Team of 3 students
- Master level
| Targets |
Côte d’Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, French Southern Territories, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mayotte, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Réunion, Rwanda, Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Tanzania, United Republic of, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe |
For More Information:
Visit the Official Webpage of the Nestle R&D Innovation Challenge 2019