Contribution to the European Strategic Policies
The European Green Deal sets out to make Europe the first climate-neutral continent by 2050. It maps a new, sustainable and inclusive growth strategy to boost the economy, improve people's health and quality of life, care for nature, and leave no one behind.
The Farm to Fork Strategy is at the heart of the Green Deal. It addresses the challenges of sustainable food systems and recognises the links between healthy people, healthy societies and a healthy planet. The Farm to Fork Strategy is of particular importance for the agri-food industry as part of the food system, and will strongly contribute to achieving a sustainable, competitive economy, from farmers to consumers. It aims to reduce the environmental impact of the agri-food industry and make it more competitive on a global scale by taking action on reduction of food loss and waste, increasing the availability of alternative proteins, making the production of our food more efficient and more environmentally friendly via digitalisation.
To achieve the goals set out in the Farm to Fork strategy, the introduction of deep tech innovations in the agri-food industry and the entire food system is a condition sine qua non. Innovation shapes the agri-food industry,
transforms it and is indispensable to achieve the overarching objectives of the twin green and digital transition.
A wave of deep tech innovations, supported by initiatives like SIXFOLD, is finding its way to the European agri-food industry. Deep technology or deep tech is a classification of an institution, an organisation or a start-up company, with the expressed objective of providing advanced and emerging technology solutions to deep societal challenges. As for the technologies, deep tech involves the vast utilization of advanced, cutting-edge technological solutions, combining fields of science and engineering in the physical, biological and digital spheres: artificial intelligence and machine learning (including big data), robotics (including co-bots), biotechnology and life sciences, language processing, advanced material science, and nanotechnologies.
