RIPEN Hub Funding Call Now Open
The RIPEN Innovation Hub is pleased to announce that its 2026/2027 funding call is now open.
The deadline for all three calls is Friday 12th June 2026. The earliest funded activities can start from 1st October 2026.
Applicants should be members of the RIPEN Hub. Those who are not yet members should complete the online membership form via the RIPEN Hub website.
For further guidance, application forms, and eligibility details, please see the relevant pages.
For questions, please contact Katerina Petropoulou at ripenhub@imperial.ac.uk.
March 6th
Newcastle University, UK.
View the Ripen Hub’s 2025 Hackathon slide deck, and how the event came together to narrow down 30 Topic Areas to 5 through collaborative exercises on the day!
This year's RIPEN Hub Hackathon was held on the 6th March 2025, at Newcastle University. During the meeting, all who attended discussed the upcoming Research Priorities for the year, with particular emphasis on what had changed from last year's focus areas. You can view the overall slide presentation of the day by clicking the button on the right, including an overview of 4 presentations which were given by awardees of the previous years’ funding call.
RIPEN held a Hackathon in Birmingham on 18th January 2024
Diet and health innovation: Early-stage feasibility projects
Nutrition Bulletin - New Paper
“Innovation from collaboration” - IFST Article
Six new innovation hubs
Six new innovation hubs will be launched to create the Diet and Health Open Innovation Research Club, including one based at Imperial.
RIPEN Hub Hackathon, March 2023.
The first RIPEN Hub Hackathon event took place in the Uni of Surrey, Guilford 9th March 2023
A new UKRI press release:
“Take a diet and health innovation boosted by new funding partnership”.