Entrepreneurship
Startups play a fundamental role in building a future-fit food system that produces healthy and sustainable food for all.

EIT Food Entrepreneurship supports innovative, researchers, entrepreneurs, and impactful AgriFoodTech startups, every step of the way - from business propositions, market validation, business acceleration, tech validation to commercial upscaling.
Whatever stage you are at on your agrifood tech venture and journey - launch, accelerate or scale up - our three hands-on, equity-free programmes give the best chance for you to become a food system gamechanger and succeed.
Our agrifood tech entrepreneurship powerhouse connects thousands of startups to more than 200 leading corporations, universities, research centres, and investors, with the full support and resources of the European Union.
Applications open December 2023
If you are an aspiring agrifood entrepreneur, a startup, or a scaleup interested in one of our programmes, register your interest and we will notify you when our 2024 applications open.
Our pan-European entrepreneurship programmes

For aspiring entrepreneurs and researchers looking for market-validated business propositions

For impactful agrifood startups looking for tech validation and commercial acceleration

For aspiring scaleups looking to successfully upscale their commercial capabilities
REGISTER FOR OUR ENTREPRENEURSHIP PAN-EUROPEAN PROGRAMMES
If you are an aspiring agrifood entrepreneur, a startup, or a scaleup interested in one of our programmes, register your interest and we will notify you when applications are open
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ENTREPRENEURSHIP PROGRAMMES FOR RIS COUNTRIES AND REGIONS
Are you looking to get involved in the revolution of the agrifood system, but you are from a RIS country? We have everything you need.
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