In October, we had the opportunity to present Sweethoven Biotech at NEXT BITE 2024 in Rome, EIT Food’s flagship event bringing together actors from across the European food innovation ecosystem.
As alumni of the EIT Food Seedbed Incubator 2023, we joined the event with our own booth at the La Nuvola Conference Centre, where we presented our research on sweet dietary-fiber candidates and shared first samples with visitors. The two days offered plenty of opportunities to discuss our approach with food-sector companies, researchers and other stakeholders and to exchange ideas about potential future application contexts.
For us, NEXT BITE was particularly valuable as a chance to move beyond the laboratory perspective and gather direct feedback on how our candidates could be evaluated in food applications. We are grateful to EIT Food for supporting our participation with a €600 travel grant and for giving us the opportunity to present our work within the wider EIT Food community.