Forty-five years after the family’s first contribution to the Technion and now as part of a multigenerational initiative, the Carasso Family and Carasso Motors are contributing toward a new initiative that will enhance Israel’s research presence in the global food industry.
The Carasso FoodTech Innovation Center will promote cutting-edge food technologies. The Center will be one of its kind in Israel and one of the most advanced in the world, featuring an R&D center for industrial production, a packaging laboratory, an industrial kitchen, as well as tasting and evaluation units that will be used for teaching and research in the Faculty of Biotechnology and Food Engineering. A visitor area will also serve as a hub for startups. In addition, the initiative will establish a scholarship fund for advanced research.
Eradicating world hunger and improving food security are among the main challenges facing humanity in the 21st century.
Technion President Prof. Uri Sivan: “Eradicating world hunger and improving food security are among the main challenges facing humanity in the 21st century, as defined by the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. The Technion has the only faculty in Israel for research in food engineering, a faculty that leads the Israeli FoodTech industry. We are grateful to the Carasso Family for their generous contribution, which will establish the Carasso FoodTech Innovation Center, and will help us promote groundbreaking scientific research in the field, train the next generation of the Israeli FoodTech industry, and maintain the faculty’s position at the global forefront of research and development.”
Yoel Carasso, Chairman of Carasso Motors, said: “We chose to support the Carasso FoodTech Innovation Center since the Technion is synonymous with excellence. The Technion is an engine for combining basic and applied science in the Galilee and in Israel as a whole. We believe the Carasso FoodTech Innovation Center will contribute to the industry and to collaborative work in this field, and thus strengthen the Israeli economy and society.”