A new type of co-innovation competition called The Voice of Innovations was launched at the SHIFT Business Festival in May 2024 and is now open for submissions. Deadline for submissions is 6 April 2025 and the best ideas will be pitched on stage at SHIFT 2025.

The goal of the innovation competition is to seek fresh perspectives on promoting healthy and sustainable eating. In addition to product innovations, the idea can be related to changing consumer buying habits, political decision-making or supply chains to be more health promoting and sustainable.

The competition is for students and conducted in collaboration with several higher education institutions. The competition’s partners, Häme University of Applied Sciences, University of Helsinki, LAB University of Applied Sciences, Metropolia University of Applied Sciences, Turku University of Applied Sciences, and the University of Turku, will organize innovation courses throughout the year, and we from Raision will mentor the students. However, the competition is open to participants beyond the students of the innovation courses or partner higher education institutions.

The ten best ideas will proceed to the semi-finals, where the ideas will be pitched to a Raisio jury. The jury will select the top five ideas, which will then be pitched on stage at next year’s SHIFT. The best five ideas will be awarded Raisio product bags, and the best idea will win a cash prize of 2000 euros.

Read more about the competition