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UNILEVER: Seeking sustainable packaging for dry foods
- 📰 Unilever has a clear strategy: Less plastic. Better plastic. No plastic. The company is accelerating the efforts towards a more circular economy for plastic and other packaging materials.
- 💡 The company is looking for a material solution that can be applied on an appropriate paper substrate, with stable barrier performance across different climate conditions (including tropical) for dry savoury products. Any solutions to the above should allow recyclability in the conventional paper stream, be certified home compostable, marine safe and have no soil toxicity
⏱️ Challenge deadline: not stated
MONDELĒZ: Seeking anti-viral technology for packaging
- 🍬 Mondelēz International is looking for technologies that can be applied to direct food contact packaging, both flexible and rigid, capable of reducing or eliminating viruses and other external pathogens on the packaging surface.
- 💡 Anti-viral technology for packaging would be a significant step forward in increasing consumer confidence when purchasing & handling consumer goods packages. The increasing potential for viral contamination is forcing consumers to be wary of handling products that may have been handled by store personnel or other consumers. Anti-viral packaging technology would allow consumers to confidently choose those products with the least risk of further contamination & eliminate any need for package cleanup when arriving at home.
⏱️ Challenge deadline: not stated
MONDELĒZ: Seeking resilient sensors for crop monitoring in the field and robotic application of control agents
- 🤖 Mondelēz International is looking for newer/cheaper/more resilient sensors capable of measuring different environmental conditions for better crop management – e.g. water availability for plants, temperature, water flow rates, soil & remote data collection, and novel ways of applying control agents in an automated manner.
- 💡 In general, the more measurements taken in a cropping system leads to better performance and efficiency. It follows that increased agricultural production and profitability, while simultaneously minimizing the environmental impact, requires key agricultural parameters to be monitored on a continuous basis. Especially with respect to controlling the over application of hazardous products such as pesticides and fertilizers.
⏱️ Challenge deadline: not stated
Yet2.com platform: Seeking shelf life studies for food products
- 📊 A yet2 client is seeking a partner to conduct shelf life studies and build a predictive model for the shelf life of their food products.
- 💡 The model should be built to predict shelf life based on product type, environmental conditions, and packaging material (material type, gauge, etc.).
⏱️ Challenge deadline: not stated ⏱️
Yet2.com platform: Seeking methods for processing delicate bivalve meat & novel uses
- 🦪 Bivalves are a large class of marine and freshwater molluscs that have a hard shell consisting of two parts connected by a hinge containing soft meat inside. They are very nutritious and have the potential to be farmed in large quantities with little impact on the environment. They contain essential nutrients such as omega 3 fatty acids and have a low carbon footprint. Although already widely consumed, they could become an even more important source of nutrients for future generations.
- 💡 A yet2 client is seeking technologies for processing delicate bivalve meat such as mussels, clams, oysters, and scallops including the extraction of the raw meat and creation of new food products using this meat with mass consumer appeal whilst maintaining the nutritional profile. This could include manipulating the appearance, texture and/or flavor to improve consumer liking &/or using the meat in place of other proteins such as beef, chicken, or fish.
⏱️ Challenge deadline: not stated ⏱️
PepsiCo: Remote sensing for tracking soil health, soil carbon and GHG emissions
- 🏾 PepsiCo’s Positive Agriculture goals aims to make a positive difference to the way we grow our crops. Sustainable crop production starts with healthy soils.
- 💡 The aim of this project is to identify and validate remote sensing technologies which can be used to monitor soil health improvements over time and to track the impact of the adoption of regenerative agriculture practices.
⏱️ Challenge deadline: not stated ⏱️
Alder Hey Children’s Hospital: Seeking: Eye drop administration techniques for children
- 👁️ The use of Mydriatic eye drops is essential to many ophthalmology procedures, however the conventional administration technique is often a negative experience for young patients and their guardians. Alder Hey Children’s is eager to reduce the distress of patients as well as improving the efficiency of ophthalmology appointments.
- 💡 The hospital is seeking technology and approaches to improve the pediatric patient’s experience while administering Mydriatic eye drops. Technologies, approaches, and administration techniques addressing novel delivery systems and immersive experiences will be considered.
⏱️ Challenge deadline: not stated ⏱