EIT Food exists to address the most pressing challenges facing the food sector through innovation
We harness the power of collaboration, entrepreneurship, and cutting-edge science, focusing on areas where innovation can unlock systemic change to create a sustainable, resilient food system, where a healthy diet leads to healthy lives.
Our vision
Over the next decade, we will advocate for a bold transformation of Europe’s food system, so that future generations can eat healthy, sustainable food. Through our community, we will fundamentally redesign the way food is produced, distributed, and consumed, so that by 2030 we have viable pathways to transformation at scale, and by 2035 we see tangible change across the food value chain.
Latest from EIT Food
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RisingFoodStars 2026
open callsThe RisingFoodStars verification badge acts as a shorthand for company’s maturity, showing that the venture has gone through a structured, demanding process to strengthen its leadership, commercial model, investment readiness and system… -
Call for Empowering Women in Agrifood (EWA) Advance Programme 2026 Participants
open callsThe EWA Advance Programme 2026 aims to select female founders of agrifood startups with market traction to participate in a pan-European scaling programme focused on accelerating commercial growth and investment readiness. -
EIT Jumpstarter – Call for participants 2026
open callsThe EIT Jumpstarter is pre-acceleration programme jointly organised by six EIT KICs to help researchers, innovators, students and idea holders in validating their innovative concepts and developing business skills to launch their startups.
Our focus
Supported by the EU, we invest in projects, organisations and individuals that share our goals for a healthy and sustainable food system. Our innovation projects are delivered with a combination of industry, education and research partners to improve environmental and health outcomes by developing solutions that align with our three missions:
Europe’s largest and most dynamic food innovation community
We create connections right across the food system that stimulate new ideas and innovations to drive change: between startups and corporates; between food entrepreneurs and investors; between consumers and industry; between research and action; between ideas and reality; between present and future.