CANS is a foundation of companies, scientists, and NGOs working to stimulate Cellular Agriculture in the Netherlands and worldwide. CANS raises funds to stimulate cellular agriculture (the successful application to the National Growth Fund which has now funded the Growth Plan project (
The goals are:
– Implement the amended Growth Plan lawfully and efficiently, including additional NGF conditions
– Contribute to knowledge exchange and information within the CA sector
– Execute the exit strategy and then stand on your own two feet
The foundation will achieve its goal by building a full-fledged ecosystem for cellular agriculture on five pillars:
– Education: offering relevant training at secondary/higher professional/university level
– Research: stimulating public knowledge development,
– Making public scale-up facilities available,
– Promote social integration of consumers, farmers or cities considering cellular agriculture as an option,
– Promoting innovation by supporting start-ups that establish themselves here and thrive as scale-ups.