Author: Mirva Lampinen

Food & Beyond, 11Helsinki Oy and VTT invite you to take a look at the future of the food industry. Organized in the fall of 2020, “From future signals to visions and solutions” is a… Read more »

Together with The City of Helsinki, we organized a reverse pitch competition. The challenges came from Metsä Board, Valio and Fazer. A reverse pitch is a concept where early stage companies or teams solve challenges… Read more »

Together with VTT, EIT Food and Atria, we organize our first Makeathon in late December. This was an amazing opportunity to collaborate with high school students. Who else would have a bigger stake in how… Read more »

Last autumn, I got the opportunity to judge the final of the EIT Food FAN programme. Three out of the ten finalists received a hefty reward of 100,000€ per team. Realistic ideas go a long… Read more »

For the past year, we have collaborated with VTT, Valio and the University of Helsinki to get the European Institute of Innovation and Technology’s (EIT) Food Accelerator Network, FAN, to Finland. The incubator will concentrate… Read more »

Despite having few natural resources and suffering from chronic political instability, Israel is a massively successful economy and a true startup nation. Where does the success come from? Ecosystems. I had the opportunity to participate… Read more »