Unlocking the magic of
fungi for environmental innovations
Explore how the Future is Fungi Award is shaping the future of tomorrow
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Fungi: the Unexpected Ally | Panel at ChangeNOW2024
At ChangeNOW, the premier event for environmental solutions, Susanne, the founder of the award, explored the transformative power of fungi.
Alongside Guillame Lopez, CEO of ZENNO SAS, and Quentin Loth of Bosque Foods, they discussed the vital role fungi play in promoting human health and environmental sustainability.
Tune into this panel discussion to discover how these solutions can further align human activities and nature’s prosperity.
2023 AWARD CEREMONY
Listen in to keynote speakers and the announcement of our research and start-up winners!
World-known artist Tarun Nayar opened the award with music from fungi.
“Fungi represent an untapped reservoir of solutions. The Future is Fungi Award is not just about acknowledging current innovations, but it's a clarion call to researchers, entrepreneurs, and visionaries to explore this uncharted territory. Every strand of mycelium we study might lead us closer to an answer for our environmental challenges"
Eben Bayer, CEO and Co-founder of Ecovative
THE FUTURE IS FUNGI AWARD
Fungi hold the potential to become the super savior to some of humanity`s largest environmental challenges. Be it fighting climate change, addressing severe biodiversity loss, ensuring a more regenerative agriculture, a circular economy or replacing fossil based or other harmful products with more sustainable and biobased ones.
However, we have only scratched the surface in unlocking and harnessing the power of this remarkable kingdom. There is so much more to explore!
With The Future is Fungi Award, we want to honor and uncover the frontier and cutting-edge science that explores the utilisation of fungi for environmental solutions. We aim to put the spotlight on NEW and EMERGING areas of fungal research and start-up innovations, lifting them from the depth of the forest into the daylight.
Our goal is also to inspire further research and innovation in the bottomless field of fungal research and applications.
Real world problems needs real world solutions. We therefore also want to nudge the commercialization of fungi research, to bring its solutions out in the real world – and accelerate us onto a more sustainable, regenerative path. To bring fungi out to work its magic.
And we want to spread the word to the world about the potential of fungi.
Together, we accelerate the fungal revolution!
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