They have an overflowing desire to invent, with a stubbornness that has allowed them to sweep away all the obstacles that have stood in front of them in recent months. Sixty-eight students from all over France took to the Government Palace in Nancy on Tuesday, where the largest student competition dedicated to food innovation is held until June 24: Ecotrophelia.
The event, considered as a veritable laboratory foreshadowing the trends and evolutions in the diet of the future, is being organized for the first time in the ducal city by the Ensaia-University of Lorraine. “In 2020, four cities responded to the call for projects, Dijon, Rennes, Compiègne and Nancy,” underlines Dominique Ladeveze, founder of the competition. “In 2022, Nancy will again be the organizer of this event supported by the food federations, the ANIA (National Association of Food Industries), the French Food Fund and inter-professional sectors. “
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For this 22nd edition, 22 projects of future engineering students will be submitted to a jury made up of expert professionals from the food sector, which will be chaired by Christine Cherbut, delegate of the President and CEO of INRAE (National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and the Environment).
At the end of the competition, the jury will award, on Thursday, June 24, in the hall of the Opéra national de Lorraine, thirteen prizes and mentions for a total amount of € 33,000, including the Trophée d’or France qualifying for the ‘Ecotrophelia Europe. “Since the creation of the competition, 800 projects have been presented to a jury, and 50 innovations have found their way into the agrifood market. »The new ready-made dishes and desserts presented by students representing some twenty schools and grandes écoles of agricultural and food industry engineers will be graded according to several criteria including taste, compliance with European regulations, feasibility industrial, innovation, marketing …
Our school is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. We need new forces in the food industry which too often suffers from a bad image
Guido Rychen, Director of Ensaia
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” We count on you “
For Guido Rychen, director of Ensaia (National School of Agronomy and Food Industries), whose three teams are involved in the competition, it is a “real pride” to organize such an event. “Our school is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. We need new forces in the food industry, which too often suffers from a bad image. Your challenge, you students, is to find healthy food that is affordable for everyone. The food industry is waiting for you »
Mathieu Klein, mayor of Nancy and president of the Métropole du Grand Nancy, sent the same message to the students “embodying a generation on which we rely a lot to eat healthy and locally”. The opportunity to recall that the Metropolis, with 60,000 students, is “the second urban area for its student density”.
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