For SMEs and Corporate Partners

SMEs & Corporate Partners
Collaborate with us
Through a close relationship, allow IFNC to become your informed business partner.
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Tap into wide pool of science and technologies. |
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Facilitate access to funding opportunities and foundation grants. |
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Engage with our talents and have visibility on promising spin-offs. |
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Access to select community events with our network. |
Where we contribute

Bio-based materials
Smart packaging
Engineering & Processing
Degradation
Sustainability assessment
Consumer behaviours

Metabolism & nutrition
Sensing & monitoring data
Computational biology
Protein engineering
Neurosciences
Digital epidemiology

Machine learning & AI
Blockchain
Complex systems simulation
Hyperspectral imaging
Robotics & photonics
Sensors & tracking
Our approach
We take a modular and flexible project-based approach, leveraging cross-industry expertise to help our partners solve complex transdisciplinary innovation challenges.

Our approach
By connecting EPFL’s research expertise with the industry know-how, we aim to generate research and innovation around food and nutrition and translate it into real collaboration opportunities.
Check out the list below to find out what we have in store for you.
With a privileged access to the IFNC Industrial Board, our members can truly influence EPFL research programs related to food and nutrition. They also have access to events and conferences and can closely collaborate with EPFL’s scientists and start-ups. IFNC membership is reserved for companies active in the food and nutrition industry.
Want to work on a specific project that meets your needs? Take part in the IFNC Joint Research Program, which consists of a close collaboration between science and industry. Through a well-defined projet and statement of work, all parties are working together to achieve concrete outcomes.
Through diverse discovery and research programmes, non-competing members of the center work together on common issues.
Latest activities

FAO Event: Sustainably feeding 10 billion people in 2050
Keynote presentation by Dr. Ismahane Elouafi, the Chief Scientist of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) June 1, 2023 | 14:30-16:30 EPFL Auditorium: MED 0 1418 Organized jointly by the EPFL Integrative Food and Nutrition Center and the EssentialTech Centre.

15 juin 2023 BCF Arena Fribourg: InnoFood & Co
Le rendez-vous annuel incontournable pour se connecter avec les acteurs de l’écosystème agro-alimentaire, en Suisse et à l’international, et découvrir les solutions pour une alimentation saine et durable.

Jeremy Luterbacher’s PET-like plastic made of plant by-products
Jeremy Luterbacher from EPFL’s Laboratory of Sustainable and Catalytic Processing has developed a way to turn plant by-products into materials that could serve as an alternative to some types of plastic.
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