This November, student teams get to tackle interesting fish industry challenges related to product development, marketing, package design, export, and internationality.

Flavoria Innovation Festival tackles challenges in the food chain together with companies and students. This year, the focus is on fish industry, specifically on challenges related to innovations, sustainability, and circular economy in the fish industry.

Flavoria Innovation Festival is organized on November 11–15, 2024, in co-operation with the City of Turku. Participants can expect an intensive but rewarding week working on interesting company challenges.

The Flavoria Innovation Festival 2024 concentrates into the challenges of the food chain once again. This year, we are bringing a perspective of circular economy to the innovation week, and the Innovation Festival is organized in collaboration with the City of Turku.

The first Flavoria Innovation Festival, organized in November, brought together students from various fields to solve real life company challenges related to the food chain. During the week-long event the student teams were sparred by expert mentors, got to know the Design Sprint -process and practiced pitching with a coach. On the last event day the got to present their ideas to the companies.

During the last two days of the festival week, the teams learnt pitching and prepared their presentations for Friday’s meetings with the companies.

Day three of the innovation week started with the teams gathering and going through all the information and ideas they have gained during the first two days. In the afternoon it was time to present all of their existing ideas to company representatives.

The second day of Flavoria Innovation Festival saw the teams going through their ideas from Monday and discussing their progress with mentors.

The first Flavoria Innovation Festival started with some inspiring talks on ideas, innovation and tackling the challenges in the food chain. Later in the afternoon the student teams began working on the company challenges presented by Oy Lunden Ab Jalostaja, Leipomo Rosten Oy and Sodexo Oy.