Highlights from the First FERMI Symposium

๐ŸŒŠ ๐—ฅ๐—ถ๐—ฑ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐˜„๐—ฎ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ๐˜€ ๐—ผ๐—ณ ๐—ฝ๐—น๐—ฎ๐—ป๐˜-๐—ฏ๐—ฎ๐˜€๐—ฒ๐—ฑ ๐—ณ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—บ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป! On November 4-5, the coastal town of Egmond aan Zee became the hub for the first FERMI symposium. Bringing together academia and industry, the ๐—™๐—˜๐—ฅ๐— ๐—œ ๐—ฃ๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐—ท๐—ฒ๐—ฐ๐˜ explores how fermentation can improve the taste, texture, and nutrition of plant-based foods, accelerating breakthroughs from science to application. ๐—ช๐—ต๐—ฎ๐˜ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ฑ๐—ฒ … Read more

First FERMI user meeting

On June 10th, the R&D Centre of Flora Food Group in Wageningen played host to the latest FERMI User Meeting, bringing together researchers, industry partners, and innovation leaders for a day of knowledge exchange and sensory exploration. The morning session opened with compelling research updates from Tomรกs Fonseca Cavaco (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) and Beatrice Tagliabue … Read more

Next phase FERMI Research Program

FERMI Research Program moves into next phase with academic-industry alignment meeting Yesterday, academic researchers and industrial partners came together at VU Amsterdam for the next key step in the FERMI research program. This event marked an important follow-up to the FERMI kick-off in early February. PhD students and work package leaders presented their work breakdown … Read more

FERMI Project launches officially

Today, the official kick-off of FERMI takes place. This groundbreaking research project aims to gain a better understanding of the fermentation process of plant-based proteins. The official launch is led by project leader Herwig Bachmann. The project will be performed at the VU University, TU Delft and Wageningen University. Theme Director of Sustainable Processing, Bert … Read more