Together Against Food Waste, wins Impact Award 2022

On Friday 10 June 2022, the WUR Impact Award was presented for the first time, to the team of researchers within WUR that has achieved impact with their research by using knowledge and research results in practice. Jury chairman Marcel Schuttelaar announced the winner; Samen Tegen Voedselverspilling (Together against food waste). The Impact Award was presented to programme managers Toine Timmermans and Sanne Stroosnijder and the team of researchers. The prize? Eternal fame in the form of a tile in the Walk of Fame of Wageningen Campus and additional support for the team to further increase the impact next year, both nationally and internationally.

The jury, consisting of four Wageningen Ambassadors and a WUR General Director: Marcel Schuttelaar, Tjapko Poppens, John Lapré, Wilma Terwel and Sjoukje Heimovaara, chose the winner from four nominees.

'The WUR Impact Award is presented to a team that not only produces beautiful research results, but also tries to get the results applied. A team that has gone the extra mile to make an impact. The team of Together Against Food Waste fully fits that profile', according to Schuttelaar. 'It could have limited itself to publishing a few nice reports, but the team mobilised all parties in the Netherlands: from primary schools and the catering industry to the large food processors within the Foundation Together against Food Waste. The team has put the subject on the agenda of both companies (B2B) and consumers (B2C) nationwide'.

The other nominations were Bioasphalt, where a substantial part of the fossil bitumen has been replaced by lignin, a waste stream from the paper and pulp industry. The Map of the Netherlands in 2120, a nature-oriented vision of the Netherlands in 2120, presented as a new map of our future. And strip farming, crop diversity about the future of agriculture, a smart combination of the use of natural resilience with high-tech solutions.

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