Future Food Institute Partners with EIT Food for 2020 European Maker Faire

With the European Maker Faire scheduled to take place this weekend, Future Food Institute is delighted to announce that it will be back once again at the food pavilion in Rome. This time, the team is joining forces with EIT Food – Europe’s leading food innovation initiative – to form creative solutions to the most challenging and urgent issues affecting today’s supply chains.

The European Maker Faire – a MAKE Magazine event that aims to bring together worldwide leaders across a range of industries – will be held in Rome between December 10th and December 13th 2020. Future Food Institute’s presence will heavily feature the EIT Food MAKEit project; an initiative designed to build smarter, simpler, and more sustainable food chains through the invention of pioneering, tangible solutions that support change.

Attendees will have the chance to check out the MAKEit toolkit, a tool designed to respond to the new challenges arising in the food chain, developed through the accumulated project experience. They can also learn more about the 73 different revolutionary ideas that have been generated over the 13 MAKEathon sessions held over the past two years and connect with a strong community of food organisations from the UK, Germany, Spain, Poland, Iceland and more who are committed to change.

Sara Roversi, Founder of Future Food Institute said, “Maker Faire is the place where makers, scientists, and innovators of every age meet to present and share projects, knowledge, and discoveries. We’re proud to be back, presenting a new initiative celebrating the essence of the makers’ approach while tackling one of the greatest challenges of our era: creating more equitable and sustainable food systems by making the food chains more resilient and simple. This is a European project celebrating the maker’s mindset and the richness of diversity, multiculturalism, and multi-skills approach to problem solving.”

Shima Barakat, Project lead, Food MAKEit Director, Entrepreneurship for Sustainability Programme, University of Cambridge said, “To solve the world’s most pressing challenges, we must work and innovate in ways that we haven’t been before, with different resources, in different spaces, using different mindsets. MAKEit has developed an infrastructure to bring together industry, research, entrepreneurs and makers in make spaces to take on these challenges with speed and effectiveness, reducing the cost of innovation and increase the likelihood of successful realisation.”

Future Food Institute is no stranger to the Rome food pavilion, having presented at the European Maker Faire in 2016, 2017 and 2018. The organisation has also held a presence at international Maker Faires, including Maker Faire Bay Area and Maker Faire New York, where prototypes and innovations have been presented and pioneering ideas born.

This weekend’s Maker Faire promises 250 live presentations with more than 300 exhibits across nine different themed pavilions. Future Food Institute and the EIT Food MAKEit project will have a dedicated booth in the food pavilion from 10 December – 13 December, from 4.00pm – 8.00pm CET. An EIT Food MAKEit presentation will take place on Saturday 12 December from 5.30pm – 6.30pm where EIT Food MAKEit will present the MAKEit TOOLKIT and launch the next challenge.

To find out more, visit Makeit.FutureFood.community or www.eitfood.eu/projects/make-it