The World Food Programme, in cooperation with the Federal Republic of Germany, decided to open a new centre in Bavaria’s capital, Munich, exploiting the skills and the know-how of digital start-up companies and enterprises, in order to create innovative strategies to tackle world hunger. In this way, the centre shall benefit from funds coming from both the Germany’s federal government and the Bavarian regional government.

The goal is ambitious and, to reach it, the cooperation and the expertise of many actors is necessary. In fact, the Innovation Accelerator shall involve not only internal WPF staff, but also experts and entrepreneurs from the private sector and civil society. They are supposed to work in teams for three to six-month periods, in order to share knowledge and ideas of how to end global hunger. Munich has, actually, a long tradition of strong innovation and start-up communities.

Mr. Helmut Brunner, the Bavarian Minister of State for Food, Agriculture and Forestry, said that “Bavaria is proud to support the establishment of a WFP office in Munich. Through close collaboration with companies and research institutes based in Bavaria, we can identify intelligent and sustainable solutions to global hunger”. In fact, it is not the first time that Germany has participated with the World Food Programme in this kind of humanitarian project: the Berliner team of Share TheMeal – the app created on the WFP’s initiative - has already provided support for hungry people all over the world, especially for those severely affected by the Syrian conflict.

• - https://www.bmz.de/en/press/aktuelleMeldungen/2016/juli/160711_pm_066_A-world-without-hunger-is-possible/index.jsp
• - https://www.wfp.org/news/news-release/world-food-programme-launches-innovation-accelerator-test-drive-hunger-solutions
• - https://sharethemeal.org/it/help.html