All EIT Food projects

REPAK -  entrepreneurial summer school in packaging sustainability

We have an urgent need to deliver innovative sustainable food packaging solutions.

Inspire Programme

Promoting entrepreneurship in the agrifood sector

Challenge Labs

Creative workshops designed to find solutions to current and future challenges in the food and agriculture system

Food Foresight on the impact of COVID-19

Future-proof or future ready? Learn how COVID-19 will transform the agrifood sector in Central, Eastern and South Europe!

ACTinEITFOOD

Project with the German Federal Ministry of Research and Education

Innovator Fellowship 2021

The objective of EIT Food Innovator Fellowship is to empower talents to co-create, address, and gain experiences on excellent ideas capable of bringing their careers a step further, and foster innovators ready to respond to global food challenges.

PERsonalised NUtrItion through kitchen Gardens (PERNUG)

Increasing access to more nutritious plant foods

The Regenerative Agriculture Revolution

Regenerative agriculture offers one of the greatest opportunities to help Europe address human and climate health, along with the financial well-being of farmers.

The Regenerative Agriculture Revolution is a series of activities whose overall aim is to help farmers and agrifood businesses adopt more regenerative farming practices and raise public awareness about the important health, environmental and economic benefits of eating regeneratively produced food.

Improving juiciness of plant-based meat alternatives

Making meat substitutes more palatable

Precision Fermentation: From Biotechnology to Sustainable Nutrition

Bringing precision fermentation to the mass market

inPaper: Innovative paper-based packaging technology and pack styles for food products

Packaging needs to become more sustainable!

Innovative biostimulants for sustainable fruit production from vegetable crops (BIOSUVEG)

Enhancing vegetable crop yields for sustainable food production

Pig Tracker: Commercialisation of a digital, farm to fork management, tracing and monitoring tool for the pig industry

Using future farming technology to transform pork production

TRACOD – Model-based Tracking of Cod and Other Fish Value Chain for Consumer Confidence Boosting and Food Engineers Education

TRACOD – short for TRAck the COD fish, is an EIT Food project aimed at improving the ability of producers and consumers to track freshness and nutritional values of fresh fish, including cod, salmon, and other white fish species. TRACOD uses models implemented in an app for interacting with stakeholders and includes an education component for endowing food engineers with a systems approach. TRACOD also engages future food engineers in conceptual modeling as part of model-based systems engineering of food production and supply systems.

Seedbed Incubator

A 6-month programme that aims to transform innovative ideas and research breakthroughs into market-validated business propositions.

PHENOILS. New technologies implementation in RIS regions’ olive oil mills for healthier olive oil extraction

This programme incorporates new physical technologies in the extraction of the virgin olive oil process in order to produce oils with a higher amount of minor components with higher preventive effects such as polyphenols and tocopherols.

HPHC - Development and application of hydrocolloids functionalised by dynamic high pressure

Improving the functionality, stability and quality of thickening agents

In-house DNA barcoding to fast authentication in complex food samples (DNA complex)

Monitoring complex food products to increase trust in food

Pressure for healthier and more natural fat-based foods (underPRESSURE)

Consumers are increasingly demanding healthier products to fulfil their personalised nutrition needs and more natural foods (clean label) in which they can put their trust. Both are nowadays key and challenge drivers for the food industry.

C-SNIPER: Campylobacter-Specific Nullification via Innovative Phage-mediated Enteropathogen Reduction

Campylobacteriosis is the most frequently reported food-borne illness in the EU.

Minimally-modified AMino Microbiota heALth (MAMMAL)

Ensuring infant formula promotes healthy gut microbiome

Integrating Precision Farming into Computer Games

Communicating the benefits of precision farming

Food System Master of Science Programme

Develop in-depth knowledge about food systems through studying consecutively at three distinct European academic institutions and use your knowledge to drive the future transformation of the food system.

ONCOFOOD: New food solutions for cancer patients

Preventing malnutrition in patients undergoing treatment for cancer