Call: Food scanner

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Die Preise sollen als Anreiz für Innovation dienen. Dabei ist das Ziel definiert, nicht aber auf welche Art und Weise es erreicht werden soll, und ebenso wenig wer als Innovator auftreten kann.

Folgende Beschreibung ist nur auf Englisch verfügbar:

Food-related health problems such as food allergies, obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular disease have grown to epidemic proportions and are taking a heavy toll on our society and our health systems.

Some figures:

• According to the European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology about 17 million Europeans suffer from food allergies, with 3.5 million of them less than 25 years of age
• Globally about 35 % of adults are overweight, with half a billion of them obese. Obesity is affecting people at ever younger ages: today 43 million preschool children or nearly 7 % of all under-fives are overweight
• The International Diabetes Federation (IDF) estimated that in Europe 35 million adults had diabetes (both type 1 and type 2) in 2011. This is projected to increase by 23%, to 43 million in 2030
• According to the WHO, cardiovascular disease (CVD) causes more than half of all deaths across the European Region; CVD causes 46 times the number of deaths and 11 times the disease burden caused by AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria combined in Europe; 80% of premature heart disease and stroke is preventable and diabetes is a major risk factor and trigger for cardiovascular disease. Healthier food intake could reduce these numbers

Challenge

The Horizon Prize for a food scanner will be awarded to a mobile solution that analyses precisely, quickly and efficiently food composition, nutrition facts and potentially harmful ingredients such as allergens. It should also be able to provide feedback to users regarding their health and lifestyle.

Der Wettbewerb ist offen für jede einzelne Person und juristische Person oder eine Gruppe von juristischen Personen in den EU- Mitgliedstaaten oder assoziierte Länder des Horizont 2020 Programmes.