As part of the new dynamic within UCLouvain in transition to promote innovative projects led by students, regional start-ups or citizen communities, and thanks to the financial contribution of the Louvain Foundation and FEDER funding, the Fermes universitaires de Louvain platform supports the emergence of innovative and eco-responsible healthy foods.
A good example? Apéronia, an aperitif duo consisting of crackers and a spread, whose star ingredient is aronia, a superfruit rich in bioactive phenolic compounds and cultivated locally.
This healthy, sustainable snack was developed by five students from the Faculty of Bioscience engineering and has just won the national Food At Work Ecotrophelia 2023 competition.
The ambition is to ultimately set up an "Open transition lab for healthy, nutritious and sustainable food" within the walls of the emblematic Ferme de Lauzelle.