Launching What’s Your Food or Fibre Challenge? Gippsland
Rise to your food or fibre challenge
Gippsland is one of Australia’s leading food and fibre regions, with the industry worth $7 billion to the Victorian economy.
Businesses in Gippsland’s food and fibre sector are great at growing things. But everyone could use some help to grow their business and create new opportunities. We know that innovation can drive great outcomes in the food and fibre sector, but not everyone has the time, resources or support they need.
Do you know a Gippsland business in the food and fibre sector with a challenge, opportunity or problem? Perhaps it’s your own business or belongs to someone you know. The challenge might be a product needing more research and development, a training and knowledge gap, outdated technology, a kink in the supply chain, a need for waste innovation, or something else entirely.
By entering the What’s Your Food or Fibre Challenge, Gippsland? competition, taking on those challenges could lead to greater opportunities, unlock huge potential and even revolutionise local businesses and transform the food and fibre industry globally.
The competition
What’s Your Food or Fibre Challenge, Gippsland? is funded by the Gippsland Regional Partnership and developed by Federation University Australia and Food & Fibre Gippsland, with partnership and support provided by Regional Development Victoria, Food Agility CRC, Food Innovation Australia Limited (FIAL), Latrobe Valley Authority and TAFE Gippsland.
In the coming months, we’ll be providing user-friendly templates and activities to help entrants tell us about their challenge and create a compelling pitch to enter the competition.
Up to 10 finalists will be selected and each project will receive comprehensive research and innovation support, funding and collaboration from experts and leaders in business, science and the food and fibre industry.
The resulting projects will help businesses overcome their challenge in ways that deliver real value for the individual business and have a positive impact on the industry as a whole.
The program aims to contribute to the growth, prosperity and sustainability of the region, sparking innovation that not only benefits our communities and businesses, but leads the way for the food and fibre industry nationally and globally.
The launch
To kick off this exciting initiative, we’re holding a launch event on Friday 12 March from 9.30am to 11am at Federation University’s Morwell Innovation Centre, located at 1 Monash Way, Morwell (corner of Monash Way and Princes Drive).
Speakers confirmed for the launch so far include:
Nicole Griffin – General Manager, Morwell Innovation Centre
Tim McAuliffe – Acting Regional Director Gippsland, Regional Development Victoria
Professor Duncan Bentley – Vice-Chancellor, Federation University Australia
Nicola Pero – CEO, Food & Fibre Gippsland
Emma Coath – Managing Director, Rocket Seeder.
Morning tea will be provided beforehand.
Join us to explore what challenges are holding back local food and fibre businesses and how those challenges can be overcome with collaboration and innovation.
Key dates*
12 March 2021 – Launch
26 March 2021 – Submit your completed Expression of Interest (EOI) form
31 March 2021 – Attend the Design Sprint workshop run by Rocket Seeder to ace your application
30 April 2021 – Submit your application form
14 May 2021 – Pitch your challenge at our pitch session
July 2021 – Projects awarded and applicants notified of next steps
January 2022 – Projects nearing completion.
* Subject to change.
Register to attend
To attend the launch and find out how What’s Your Food or Fibre Challenge, Gippsland? can help make local businesses in this important $7 billion sector be the best they can be, click on the link below to register for free.
What if I’m interested but can’t make it to the launch?
Can’t make it on the day? Videos from the speakers and the resources you’ll need to apply will be made available on the program landing page. Stay subscribed to this list to receive the link once it becomes available.
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A new year, a new start.. Time to get your business sorted and ready for anything that 2021 may throw at us!
Liz Fleming – The Efficiency Coach is a business mentor and accountant with a farming background, having grown up on a sheep and beef farm in NZ.
She knows a thing or two about creating efficiencies in business with her hands-on farming experience and her corporate finance experience in large and small organisations. She is the efficiency expert who hates seeing time and resources being wasted!
Nobody has time to waste by doing things twice or unnecessarily or not at all (when it’s kind of critical!)… it’s all about making sure the right person is doing the right task at the right time, to drive more profit, give you more time, leading to a more fulfilled lifestyle.
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Her clients rave about her ability to identify new ideas, ask those challenging questions about the reasons why things are done certain ways, and critically analysing whether those processes are serving your business well.
Sometimes it takes a new person’s perspective to change the way to create the efficiencies desired by us all.
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m: 0405 541 460 | www.theefficiencycoach.com.au
***This is an exclusive offer for Food & Fibre Gippsland members, if you are not a member and would like to know more about joining the growing number of food & fibre businesses of all sizes who are part of the member family - check out more here ***
