Solar Foods joins forces with European universities in a European Innovation Council Sunlight-to-Food project

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Solar Foods Oyj, press release 19 September 2025 at 12.00 EESTSolar Foods joins forces with European universities in a European Innovation Council Sunlight-to-Food projectSolar Foods has joined a group of leading European universities in a European Innovation Council (EIC) project SOLARSPOON. Utilizing Solar Foods’ proprietary microbe which feeds on CO2 and hydrogen, which Solar Foods uses to produce the high-protein food ingredient Solein®, the project team, led by the University of Cambridge, aims to design a solar-powered device that combines photosynthetic bacteria with food-producing microbes to convert carbon dioxide and nitrogen from the air into essential nutrients like proteins and fats – eliminating the need for traditional farming.European Innovation CouncilEIC) is part of Horizon Europe, an EU research and innovation funding program focused on identifying, developing, and scaling up breakthrough technologies. The EUR 4 million innovation grant for SOLARSPOON is awarded by the EIC Pathfinder Challenge, which targets the exploration of exceptionally bold ideas for radically new technologies and early-stage research. (In the 4-year project, led by the Yusuf Department of Chemistry at the University of Cambridge, Solar Foods joins a top-tier European consortium including the Technical University of Denmark, the Technical University of Munich, and Imperial College London.says , Chief Scientific Officer and Co-founder of Solar Foods. “SOLARSPOON is an extensive, academic research project, which builds on everything we have accomplished so far. We are honoured to be a part of such an influential group of leading European universities,” Dr Juha-Pekka PitkänenLoading the long-term potential of SoleinSolar Foods has been producing its ground-breaking protein Solein at Factory 01, the company’s first commercial-scale production facility, since spring 2024. The unique bioprocess takes one single microbe, one of the billions of different ones found in nature, and grows it through gas fermentation, an innovative production method completely independent from land use, weather and climate conditions. Solein is cultivated using carbon dioxide and hydrogen, which is produced by splitting it from water in an electrolyzer using renewable electricity.If the SOLARSPOON project is successful, the device developed would be the first functional prototype to achieve at...

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