Collaborating with Batchero to Empower Sustainable Food Choices

Batchero seeks to join a consortium as a partner, offering academic and research institutions a unique opportunity to access real-life environment for testing hypotheses, conducting trials, and engaging directly with consumers.

Batchero is a digital platform revolutionizing food systems by connecting private cooks with consumers—currently in France and soon across Europe. Batchero democratizes access to private cooking services, enabling people to enjoy healthy, homemade meals effortlessly.

Our mission aligns closely with the objectives of the Empowering Sustainable Food Choices call, emphasizing sustainable food practices, job creation, and addressing over-reliance on fast and ultra-processed industrial foods.

What sets Batchero apart is our ability to influence consumer food habits directly:
• We design the menus
• We select ingredients
• We prepare meals
• We collect feedbacks
• We gather in-depth insights on food habits and their evolution.

Why Collaborate with Batchero?

- Real-Life Experimentation in a Controlled Environment
Batchero serves as an "open-air laboratory," providing a unique environment for studying consumer behaviors and testing interventions. Research possibilities include Promoting sustainable dietary shifts, Exploring the role of cooks in influencing food choices, Evaluating the adoption of healthier, culturally sensitive diets.

- Direct Consumer Access
Batchero's diverse and growing user base offers unparalleled opportunities to study: Food literacy and its evolution over time, Barriers and enablers to sustainable food practices, Preferences for culturally appropriate healthy meals.

- Integration of Digital Tools
Batchero’s digital platform can support innovative research on AI-driven personalized meal planning, Behavioral nudges promoting sustainability, Gamification to enhance food literacy and engagement.

- Data-Driven Insights
Our platform generates a wealth of real-time data, enabling studies on: Social tipping points for dietary shifts, Impacts of policy interventions on food choices, Economic and behavioral outcomes of sustainable practices.

- Maximizing Research Impact
Collaborating with Batchero accelerates the translation of research into actionable outcomes, offering a mechanism to test, refine, and scale solutions that are relevant to end-users and society at large.

Let’s Collaborate!
We invite academic and research institutions to join us in this transformative journey. By leveraging Batchero’s unique platform, we can co-create impactful solutions that address Europe’s pressing food system challenges, fostering sustainable food choices accessible to all.

Contact Us.
We would be delighted to discuss your research approach and explore how Batchero can enhance and complement your work to achieve even greater impact.

Best regards,
Mathieu Alia.
Founder & CEO, Batchero.

Batchero: Empowering Sustainable, Healthy, and Inclusive Food Choices

Batchero is a pioneering startup bridging the gap between private cooks and consumers, redefining how individuals access nutritious, homemade meals. At its core, Batchero champions sustainability, food literacy, and inclusivity by offering an innovative solution that enhances the convenience and accessibility of healthy eating. By connecting passionate cooks with households, Batchero not only enables individuals to enjoy customized, balanced meals tailored to their dietary needs but also contributes to reducing food waste, supporting local economies, and empowering culinary professionals.

Batchero offers a unique value proposition to researchers and academic institutions. The platform serves as an open-air laboratory, providing direct access to real-life consumer data, behavioral insights, and the opportunity to test innovative solutions in real-world settings. This interactive environment fosters a deeper understanding of the barriers and enablers for sustainable food choices, facilitating trials and experiments that align with the objectives of the FutureFoodS partnership. Researchers can leverage Batchero’s platform to study the effectiveness of digital and physical food environments in promoting sustainable practices, from personalized nutrition plans to behavior-driven AI solutions.

Batchero’s commitment to inclusivity and affordability aligns seamlessly with the call’s objectives. The service caters to diverse consumer groups, including families, busy professionals, and elderly populations, ensuring that sustainable and culturally sensitive dietary solutions are accessible to all. By empowering cooks as entrepreneurs and creating new job opportunities, Batchero also addresses broader socio-economic challenges, making it a key contributor to sustainable development goals.

Batchero embodies a practical, impactful, and scalable approach to advancing food systems transformation. Its innovative model promotes collaboration across sectors, combining private sector agility with the rigor of academic research. Batchero’s capacity to integrate consumer engagement, real-world testing, and transdisciplinary research makes it a valuable partner in addressing the complexities of dietary shifts and sustainable food systems in Europe and beyond.