Description du projet
Une formation en biotechnologie pour l’innovation en science alimentaire
Le mélange de la science alimentaire et des biotechnologies est un domaine émergent qui offre de vastes possibilités – de la fabrication des aliments à leur transformation, de l’emballage à la conservation. L’entreprise technologique allemande c-LEcta, basée en Allemagne, a développé une plateforme technologique unique pour la production d’ingrédients alimentaires. Le projet BOB, financé par l’UE, soutiendra c-LEcta dans sa quête visant à recruter un spécialiste dans les domaines des biotechnologies industrielles/sciences alimentaires et de la gestion de l’innovation/administration des entreprises. Le candidat sera formé et appelé à identifier ainsi qu’à évaluer de nouveaux produits cibles, passant de l’évaluation à l’idée d’innovation et à la stratégie pour au moins un projet d’innovation.
Objectif
The main objective of BOB is to hire and integrate a highly-committed candidate to build up an innovation strategy at c-LEcta to valorize its unique technology platform by developing an innovation project according to the company strategy to become a food ingredient producer. The envisaged innovation will help to solve the industrial problem of natural product synthesis, which is today hampered by yield limits, inefficiencies in chemical synthesis, or side-effects. The functional potential of numerous natural products can only be fully exploited if the commercial production at low cost is possible. Synthetic biology is expected to achieve a break-through for increased or cheaper production. c-LEcta has conceptualized a unique technology platform, already demonstrated the concept’s feasibility, and is targeting new molecules for further growth.
However, the innovation team currently lacks of a candidate that comprises excellent technology knowledge in industrial biotechnology and/or food science and innovation management or business administration skills for assessing market values at an early development stage. The German job market is currently marked by a lack of expert personnel, and c-LEcta is experiencing difficulties in receiving high-quality responses to such a position, as it is not visible enough to job-seekers. This will be overcome by a targeted international publication of the vacancy on EURAXESS and beyond. After acquisition of a suitable candidate according to the defined profile, the specific objectives of BOB are: 1) to train the Associate according to a dedicated initiation and advanced training plan (according to the specific needs of the candidate); 2) to identify and assess new target products; and 3) to turn this assessment into an innovation idea and a strategy, deriving at least 1 innovation project. Finally, the Innovation Associate is expected to stay with the company and to strengthen the Innovation and Business development team.
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04103 Leipzig
Allemagne
L’entreprise s’est définie comme une PME (petite et moyenne entreprise) au moment de la signature de la convention de subvention.