TROPHELIA EUROPE 2008
SIAL Fair on October 20TH 2008
The first student food innovation award in Europe
On the initiative of ACTIA and the Chamber of Commerce and Industries of Vaucluse (France), twenty establishments of higher education and centres of technology throughout France have been organizing the students’ Trophy for food product innovation since 2000. More than 80 food products have been created in the framework of this competition. About 20 of them have been manufactured and marketed through distribution channels in France. Trophélia has become the national reference for challenges in the food product innovation sector.
In the context of the European regulation and policy, it has been decided to launch in 2008 Trophélia Europe alongside with the SIAL (the Global Food Marketplace).
This competition will be an engine of stimulation of food product innovation in Europe.
OBJECTIVES
The main goal of the European-wide competition is to encourage the creation, implementation and development of new food products by teams of students from scientific and commercial establishments of higher education. TropheliaEurope will be a flagship competition that will contribute not only to attract students to the food sector but also to provide a hotbed of innovative ideas for the food industry. This initiative is fully in line with the Lisbon strategy that has the objective of boosting innovation that should lead to increased competitiveness of European industries.
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