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The Novo Nordisk Foundation is supporting a new Plant-based food platform with up to €27 million
The new open collaborative platform, Plant2food, will accelerate the development of plant-based foods in Denmark and be a hub for researchers and companies, who want to collaborate to solve some of the complex issues of developing plant-based foods. Plant2food will put Denmark at the forefront in the development of plant-based foods.
The Novo Nordisk foundation has awarded a grant of up to €27 Million for Plant2food with 80 percent of the grants allocated to funding research projects awarded in open competition through the Plant2food platform.
The platform will create collaborations, which means that the knowledge created through the platform becomes available to everyone, so more companies and researchers can benefit from the same knowledge. The aim is to accelerate the overall development of new plant-based foods and to optimize collaboration across the various sectors within plant and food science.
Researchers and companies will collaborate to solve complex issues
Plant2Food will be an Open Innovation in Science platform focusing on open research collaboration. Thus, the universities and companies joining the platform agree to publish all results from the open research projects and waive any claim to intellectual property rights. This will enable researchers and companies to co-develop project ideas and to accelerate projects faster by starting them immediately when a research group and a company agree to explore an idea. The open approach also gives everyone the opportunity to further develop the results and potentially use them for commercial purposes.
“This task is too complex for a single research group or company to solve alone. In Plant2Food, we want to crunch the value chain so that both researchers and companies can derive input from unexpected sources and thereby create solutions that would otherwise not be readily available.”
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