Be the » Euroseeds2025 InnovActor » and showcase your cutting-edge technologies
Innovation plays a crucial role in driving progress within and around the European seed sector, driving advancements that are pivotal to addressing evolving challenges in agriculture and ensuring sustainable food production. The « Euroseeds2025 InnovAction Stage », will serve as a springboard to showcase the latest seed production and processing technology innovations that have the potential to reshape the future of the seed industry in Europe and beyond.
In three words: Showcase. Connect. Grow.
Participating to the InnovAction Stage will give you the chance to:
- Meet and connect with more than 1,300 industry representatives, from the seed and plant breeding sectors, agri-food businesses and the farming community – your potential partners and costumers;
- Establish where there’s a viable market need for your innovation and evaluate the scale of its commercial potential;
- Gain a deep understanding of the political, regulatory and economic developments which will drive the sector in the coming year;
- Collaborate and share knowledge with a seed tech startup community
- Get visibility online and at the Euroseeds Congress;
- The possibility to be elected ‘Euroseeds2025 InnovActor’.
… and what does the winner get?
- A free registration to the Congress;
- A special video Interview with SeedWorld Europe, including coverage in the SeedWorld magazine and online,
- The title of “Euroseeds2025 InnovActor” for communication and marketing purposes.
…a package that is worth 15.000 €!
Start-ups, SMEs, and public-private partnerships can compete for the Euroseeds2025 InnovActor title, showcasing their latest innovations. Selected companies will deliver 10-minute presentations on the InnovAction Stage, followed by a 15-minute interactive Q&A, maximizing visibility within the congress’s exhibition and trade area.
All selected companies will feature prominently on the Euroseeds2025 Congress website with their logos and information as of 01.08.2025 and have access to all relevant Congress information and the entire Congress venue and meetings.
The Euroseeds2025 InnovAction competition will exclusively focus on:
Seed Production, including technologies related to
- seed harvesting
- seed quantity
- plant monitoring plant performance via drones/ satellite images
- plant growing via indoor farming, hygiene
Seed Quality Analysis, including technologies like
- germination tests through digital phenotyping/imaging
- seed vigor tests using imaging, X-ray, MRI,
- moisture tests
- genetic purity tests using molecular techniques e.g. molecular markers, sequencing
- seed health tests using molecular techniques e.g. molecular markers, HT sequencing
- other
Seed Cleaning/Sorting, including technologies like
- seed phenotyping with AI – tools
- imaging e.g. X-ray/ algorithm development
- winnowing using self-learning and self-adjusting/optimizing machines
- threshing
- particle size sorting
- purity tests with automatic seed determination and AI tools as well as multi aspect measurements (seed count, perimeter, circularity, l/w ratio,…)
- polishing
- other
Drying Technology, like
- temperature humidity control by self-adjusting processes
- gentle and energy efficient drying to maintain high seed quality
Seed Storage innovations
Please note: the next edition, the Euroseeds2025 InnovAction Stage (to be held in Valencia, 13-18.10.2026) will focus on priming priming, seed polishing, seed treatments, packaging, traceability etc.
- Start-ups
- Small and medium-sized enterprises
- Public-private partnerships
- Use case/application relevance for European plant breeding agriculture
- Proof of concept
- Test results available if possible
- Prototype available if possible
An independent jury will assess all presentations and select the winner of the competition and two runner-ups. These companies will be presented and feature prominently in a special closing event of the competition, ‘The Euroseeds2025 InnovActor Ceremony’, which will be held in the afternoon of Tuesday, 21st October 2025.
- If your company is not selected
Well, in English they say « out with the old, in with the new »! And after all, we became aware of your innovation through your application and will keep you in mind for eventual possibilities at the Euroseeds2026 Congress
Terms and condition for participation : please click here.
InnovAction Stage's floorplan
