Project "AI instead of Waste" wins the EDIH Network Award for Excellence 2026
At the center of the project is a concrete challenge from Stattküche GmbH, a company supplying freshly cooked lunches to schools and kindergartens. A share of pre-ordered meals is not collected because cancellations are made too late or forgotten, leading to food waste.
The project translated Stattküche’s operational challenge into an AI-based forecasting approach that helps predict expected cancellations more accurately. The approach was developed by Dr. Ina Dormuth under the supervision of Prof. Markus Pauly in close collaboration with Stattküche’s domain experts and within the EDIH-DO project partnership involving TU Dortmund University and the Centrum für Entrepreneurship & Transfer (CET).
To the Press Release