INTERNORGA | Future Award

Attention visionaries!

Anyone who thinks, manages and produces with the future in mind can no longer ignore the INTERNORGA Future Award. In 2025 we will enter the next round!

Since 2011, the INTERNORGA Future Award has honoured companies that define new standards with particular courage and outstanding commitment and act as a driving force for a sustainable out-of-home market.

The concepts and solutions of the winners are always characterised by high efficiency, responsible entrepreneurship and exemplary sustainability strategies. New standards for a sustainable out-of-home market are set in a variety of ways. The award is recognised as one of the most important national and international awards in the out-of-home market.

Applications are now open. The closing date for applications is 10 January 2025!

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The categories

Gastronomy & Hotel Industry

In this category, the award is given to companies from the craft, hotel, catering or community catering sectors that bring together entrepreneurial action and future-oriented management and thus set trends for tomorrow for their customers and partners. High quality, service and customer orientation in combination with resource and energy saving, raw materials from ecological production, fair trade relations and innovative production processes and new technologies are exemplary for future-oriented and sustainable best practice in economic activity. Careful treatment of natural resources and fairness towards suppliers, partners and employees are just as much a matter of course here as a high level of transparency about manufacturing conditions and raw materials used, as well as socially and ecologically responsible behaviour towards customers.

Food & Beverages

(exclusively to exhibitors at INTERNORGA)

In this category, the award is given to a product that stands out, for example, due to its high level of innovation and future-oriented effectiveness for the areas of application. This includes healthy and bio-ecologically valuable raw materials as well as high quality in processing and taste, but also fair production conditions, recycling and much more. The nutritional and culinary properties are just as important as sustainable production, recycling and transparency about the raw materials used and their origin.

Technology & Equipment

(exclusively to exhibitors at INTERNORGA)

Awards will be presented for innovations in the field of technology and equipment that impress with new and intelligent solutions and set standards for innovation, quality, resource conservation and functionality. Efficiency and economy in the application and use of energy and materials, long product life, reparability and updatability are examples of this, as are technical innovations that optimise work processes.

The Jury

Dr. J. Daniel Dahm (Chairman)

Dr. J. Daniel Dahm (Chairman) is a scientist, entrepreneur and activist with a focus on sustainable development. His many years of work in the natural sciences, in anthropology and economics, and as an expert, adviser and entrepreneur give him an outstanding position in academia, civil society and the business community, with a reputation for strategic sustainability and high quality standards.

Carl-Otto Gensch

Carl-Otto Gensch is Head of the Department of Product & Material Flows at the renowned Eco-Institute in Freiburg. He is an expert in the development of sustainability assessments for technologies and corporate strategies, and was one of the developers of the recognised ProSA method (Product Sustainability Assessment).

Rainer Roehl

Rainer Roehl is a nutritionist and entrepreneur and has been working in the out-of-home market for more than 30 years. During this time, he has advised more than 1,000 restaurants and canteen kitchens on the implementation of a health, ecologically and economically sustainable catering service, led more than 150 conferences and 500 seminars for players in the food service market and supported more than 50 manufacturers and retailers in the development and marketing of an organic range of catering products.

Rainer Roehl is a lecturer at Münster University of Applied Sciences for the subject "Sustainable Catering Services", a member of the advisory board of the German Institute for Community Catering, as well as 2nd managing director of Gärtnerhof Entrup eG, a Demeter farm in the Münsterland region.

Hanni Rützler

Hanni Rützler is one of the leading trend researchers in the food industry. She is based in Austria and is an expert on future food, food quality, consumer protection and healthy eating, and is well known for her multi-disciplinary approach to questions of eating and drinking behaviour in the future.