Partner

Over more than a decade of prac­ti­cal expe­ri­ence, we have suc­ceed­ed in estab­lish­ing long-term col­lab­o­ra­tions with part­ners who engage with indoor farm­ing in a gen­uine­ly pro­fes­sion­al and solu­tion-ori­ent­ed man­ner. This has enabled us to work with organ­i­sa­tions whose com­pe­tence dis­tin­guish­es them with­in a rapid­ly expand­ing ecosys­tem of advi­so­ry offerings.

Our part­ners sup­port the vfi with unique exper­tise in build­ing and con­trol sys­tems, archi­tec­ture and ener­gy, biol­o­gy and plant phys­i­ol­o­gy, as well as ener­gy pro­duc­tion and plant-fac­to­ry operations.

Only through the inte­gra­tion of cus­tomised archi­tec­tur­al design, for­ward-look­ing urban plan­ning, resource-effi­cient tech­nolo­gies and applied plant phys­i­ol­o­gy can the full poten­tial of ver­ti­cal farms unfold—positioning them as mean­ing­ful ele­ments of a sus­tain­able and resilient food-pro­duc­tion system.

For our basic research, exper­i­men­tal devel­op­ment and indus­tri­al research activ­i­ties, we work close­ly with lead­ing fund­ing bod­ies that recog­nise the strate­gic impor­tance of advanc­ing urban and indoor food-pro­duc­tion sys­tems. Key sup­port­ers include the Robert Bosch Stiftung, the Aus­tri­an Research Pro­mo­tion Agency (FFG), the Cli­mate and Ener­gy Fund, the Euro­pean Com­mis­sion and the Vien­na Busi­ness Agency. Their com­mit­ment enables us to explore new sci­en­tif­ic path­ways, val­i­date inno­v­a­tive method­olo­gies and accel­er­ate the trans­la­tion of research into real-world applications.