EIT Food Challenge Labs Croatia
The EIT Food Challenge Labs Croatia competition organized by EIT Food Hub Croatia, which brings together young talents and experts from the food industry with the aim of finding innovative solutions for the real challenges faced by the agrifood sector, will be held at the Faculty of Food and Biotechnology in Zagreb (and online) from the 16th to the 18th June 2025.
Challenge Labs are designed to support entrepreneurs in developing solutions to tangible problems facing the food sector by bringing together a diverse group of people with varied perspectives and using innovation tools and methodologies to facilitate the collaboration.
This event is in Croatian.
You can sign up HERE.
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Agenda
Location: Online
Date: 16.06.2025. (Monday)
9.00 – 9.30 Opening remarks Introduction to EIT Food (Dario Zoric & Tomislava Vukusic Pavicic, PhD) Introduction to EIT Food Challenge Labs (Dario Zoric)
9.30 – 16.00 Challenge Labs program Day 1
Keynote lecture: Revolutionizing Food: Innovations Shaping the Industry (Dario Zoric)
Workshop by Dario Zoric
Team forming and teambuilding
Challenge presentation
Empathy - customer interviews
Definition of challenges
Generation of ideas
Selection of ideas
Summary of the first day
Location: Online
Date: 17.06.2025. (Tuesday)
9.00 – 9.15 Introduction in Day 2 (Dario Zoric & Tomislava Vukusic Pavicic, PhD)
9.15 – 17.00 Challenge Labs program Day 2
Workshop by Helena Habdija
Development of Solution
Assessment of ideas
Building a prototype
Testing the prototype
Workshop by Dario Zoric Pitching skills Mentoring sessions Summary of the second day
Location: Faculty of Food Technology and Biotechnology
Date: 18.06.2025. (Wednesday)
8.00 – 9.00 Teams practicing pitches
9.00 – 9.15 Introduction in Day 3 (Dario Zoric & Tomislava Vukusic Pavicic, PhD)
9.15-13.30 Challenge Labs program Day 3
Program:
Presentation of ideas and winner’s announcement (moderator: Dario Zoric)
Closing ceremony
Lunch