Take up the Challenge,
make a difference!
At Wageningen University & Research top scientists and students from all over the world join forces to work on projects that make a difference to ‘the quality of life’. We live and breathe sustainability and therefore realise that, to ensure a better future, a protein transition will be no less important than the current energy transition. This is why we do cutting-edge research: redesigning food systems, developing new protein sources from plants and microbes, and improving the quality of meat and dairy alternatives. Now we invite you to make change happen with us. Join the ReThink Protein Challenge’2 and make a difference!
The Challenge
In the second edition of the ReThink Protein Challenge, we challenge you to come up with a business idea or prototype that helps provide 9 billion people with enough protein in a way that is healthy, affordable and good for our planet.
From January until June 2021 you will develop, with support of top experts, a business idea or prototype that offers an innovative and sustainable approach to meeting protein needs and targets a specific market.
Important Dates
ReThink Protein #1
The first edition resulted in creation of twenty cutting-edge ideas, six of which made it to the podium. The winners of the Challenge were team GrainGain, with their innovative approach to reusing beer-brewing waste and team SWAP who explored possibilities silkwom as protein source. Just a bit more one year later the teams are few steps closer to implementation of their ideas.
Partners & participants about the Challenge
Liz Kamei
Fuji Europe Africa B.V.
“I was really amazed by the energy and enthusiasm of the students.”
Sandy de Houwer
Cargill
“I liked the spread of different ideas that the participants came up with.”
Prof. dr. ir. Tiny van Boekel
WUR
“You see the enthusiasm of the students. It is a new way of doing education!”
Jasmine Barwari
team All Gaens (finalist)
“The coaches from various companies have helped me a lot.”
Fabiola Neitzel
team SWAP
“The ReThink Protein Challenge not only inspired us to start SWAP in the first place, but, more important, motivated and encouraged us to develop it further.”
News
Check out the latest news about the ReThink Protein challenge'2
Close calls and online celebrations at grand finale of the ReThink Protein Challenge
The wait is finally over for teams participating in the ReThink Protein Challenge ’2. On Friday 25 June, the jury announced the winners of this thrilling edition of the Student Challenges...
Milk-fat substitute wins Rethink Protein Challenge, pegged as alternative protein “game changer”
Team Cultivated has won the 2021 Rethink Protein Challenge hosted by Wageningen University and Research (WUR) in the “most demanding” Prototyping category...
Yeast-produced milk-fat alternative wins the Rethink Protein Student Challenge #2
Team ‘Cultivated’ won the Grand Finale of the Rethink Protein Challenge with their dairy-fat alternative produced with precision yeast fermentation. They won in the most demanding category, Prototyping, and were awarded the prize money of €6000...
Partners of the ReThink Protein Student Challenges
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Organizers
ReThink Protein Challenge is organized by Wageningen University & Research with support of a broad network of partners.
