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