10 April 2025
On Tuesday, April 8, the Vitagora association celebrated its 20th anniversary at its annual general meeting. This symbolic moment was marked by a change in leadership: Oisin Morrin, CEO of Tippagral, succeeded Pierre Guez, who had been president since 2006. It was an opportunity to look back on two decades dedicated to innovation and excellence in the agri-food industry, in figures and images. Proposal documents for the Vitagora cluster in 2005The story of Vitagora began in 2005, on the initiative of Greater Dijon and a group of business leaders led by Thomas Derville, former CEO of Amora-Maille and executive at Unilever: the young association obtained its certification as a “competitiveness cluster” with the unique strategic focus…
12 October 2020
Vitagora, the French agri-food and innovation cluster, has been collaborating with the Japanese Kyushu Bio Cluster (KBCC) for more than 10 years, implementing tangible and long-term actions between the two networks: visiting companies and resear…
10 April 2020
This spring, six new companies selected by the ToasterLAB jury have joined the agri-food acceleration program launched by Vitagora and its members. Innovations in packaging, AgTech in service of water conservation, plant-based foods, sustainabl…
09 January 2020
Updates on Vitagora's innovation projects DOPEOS - Optimising industrial production of probiotics The partners of the DOPEOS project have developed a process for industrial production of some bacterial strains of the EOS (Extreme Oxygen Sensit…
04 December 2019
In November 2019, Vitagora took part in a European partnership mission to Brazil. Oisin Morrin, vice-president of Vitagora, Nicolas Machado, international partnership coordinator and Christine Urbano, managing director of SensoStat, met key Brazili…
15 November 2019
In November 2019, Vitagora celebrated 10 years of cooperation with Japan. The French food innovation cluster was honoured to host NARO’s President, Dr K. KYUMA, and Vice-President, Dr A. MATSUDA, and their team who came and met Vitagora’s President…
07 November 2019
9 new start-ups have been selected by the ToasterLAB's jury [1] to take part in the Autumn/winter session of the Agri-food acceleration program. ToasterLAB is the acceleration program dedicated to boosting agri-food startups, launched by Vitagora in…
15 January 2019
On Tuesday, December 11th, 2018, in Paris three international startups were selected as the winners of the Boomer Challenge startup contest. The winners – Max de Génie (1st prize), Cerelab (2nd prize), et Troo Foods Ltd (3rd prize) – were selected fo…
09 January 2019
A new study, led by researchers from the Universities of Liverpool and Copenhagen, has been launched to identify the risks and benefits of sugar replacements in the diet. Vitagora is one of five French partners within a wide-ranging consortium of 2…