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Growing the EIT Food RisingFoodStars community: 15 new start-ups join our network

13/08/2018

On 02 July 2018 we were pleased to inform another 15 agrifood startups that their application to join the EIT Food Community as our second cohort of RisingFoodStars had been accepted.

Spotlight Interview: Entomics, an EIT Food RisingFoodStar

13/08/2018

Entomics CSO, Miha Pipan, explains how serendipity led him to become an entrepreneur and why the Black Solider Fly is the ‘crown jewel’ of the insect industry…

A Citizen Participation Forum on Vertical Farming

13/08/2018

Researcher Mascha Gugganig gets to the root of the Citizen Participation Forum held at the Deutsches Museum in Munich in July 2018.

Cross-KIC EIT Food & Health

18/06/2018

Innovators, researchers and entrepreneurs in the European food sector met at Koppert Biological Systems’ headquarters in the Netherlands last week Thrusday to inspire collaboration and innovation in this sector for improved food production, nutrition and health. Hosted by Koppert, the conference encouraged the partners of EIT Food, a pan-EU consortium that focuses on the food sector, to work together to introduce and speed up the urgent changes needed in food production.

EIT Food’s CEO calls for stronger R&I in food

15/06/2018

Speaking at the Bulgarian EU Presidency’s conference “Research & Innovation for Food and Nutrition Security: Transforming our Food Systems”, EIT Food’s CEO Filip Fontaine called on the EU and its Member States to show strong commitment to research and innovation in the agri-food sector in the next EU long-term budget, covering the 2021-2027 period. He also stressed the importance of consumer empowerment.

Bridging the trust gap in the food sector

06/06/2018

Dr Anna Macready explains how EIT Food’s Trust Barometer is vital to improving consumers’ faith in the food industry. Discover the article here.

EIT Food Announces 2018 Class of Start-ups for the EIT Food Accelerator Network

05/06/2018

EIT Food introduces the 41 high-impact agri-food start-ups that will join the final stage of acceleration and benefit from world-class mentorship, programming, and resources.

Management Change EIT Food

24/05/2018

EIT Food has announced today that Mrs Margaret Bath will step down from her role as CEO due to changes in her personal circumstances. To ensure continuity of leadership and to secure an effective intermediate process, Mr Filip Fontaine will join EIT Food full-time in the role of interim CEO as of June 01 2018. EIT Food will initiate a search for a permanent CEO.

Great Teams and Innovative Business Ideas at Second Cross-KIC EIT RIS Business Planning Bootcamp in Budapest, Hungary

18/05/2018

Organised jointly by EIT Health, EIT RawMaterials and EIT Food in cooperation with Climate-KIC, the second edition of the Business Ideas Competition has become a proven concept, successful in educating young entrepreneurs, thus fostering innovation.

Nestlé aiming at 100% recyclable or reusable packaging by 2025

13/05/2018

Nestlé today announced its ambition to make 100% of its packaging recyclable or re-usable by 2025. Its vision is that none of its packaging, including plastics, ends up in landfill or as litter. Nestlé believes that there is an urgent need to minimize the impact of packaging on the environment.

Joint-letter: EIT/KICs positioning and ambitions in FP9

07/05/2018

On the 24th of April 2018, CEO's of the different KICs including EIT Food have written and signed a joint-letter to Commissioner Tibor Navracsics and Commissioner Carlos Moedas to influence the upcoming FP9 framework. Download the letter for more details!

EIT Food Hubs selection process - results

18/04/2018

It is a great pleasure for us to inform you that our EIT Food centres CLC North-East and CLC South have selected the following organisations to perform the role of EIT Food Hubs in 2018

Apply for the EIT Governing Board

05/04/2018

The EIT today launches a Call for expressions of interest for the selection of new members of the EIT Governing Board

The EIT Governing Board is entrusted with providing the strategic leadership of the EIT. The board is independent and autonomous in its decision-making and is responsible for the selection, designation and evaluation of the EIT’s Innovation Communities.

Peter van Bladeren steps down after two years as Chairman of EIT Food’s Supervisory Board

17/03/2018

EIT Food announces that Professor Peter van Bladeren, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of EIT Food’s Board of Management, has stepped down as member and Chair per May 10, 2018.

Applications now open for the Global Food Venture program !

09/03/2018

The programme will support upcoming innovators in the area of entrepreneurship and business creation, through an intensive curriculum of tailored seminars and workshops. Participants will leverage the knowledge and expertise of a diverse consortium of EIT Food industry partners and benefit greatly from the one-to-one mentoring of an academic partner institute. During a period of 9 months, the GFV program will bring together talented researchers with technology experts, mentors and investors to prototype viable solutions with validated value propositions, and therefore tackle challenges across the food and agriculture industry. Unlike any other European entrepreneurship programme, GFV participants will have the unique opportunity to visit two key international entrepreneurship ecosystems (Israel and the Silicon Valley), pitch their ideas internationally, and network with key players from the food & agtech space.

Business Idea Competition 2018

13/02/2018

Turn your food related idea into a successful business concept
- Apply now for the Ultimate Business Ideas Competition

Applications now open for EIT Food Accelerator Network 2018!

07/02/2018

EIT FAN is a new EU funded multi-location accelerator programme delivered across Europe. Over a 4 month acceleration period, start-ups will have access to a buffet of tools, connections, mentors and expertise to help them to succeed.

EIT Food RisingFoodStar, Protix, featured in National Geographic

06/02/2018

Starting in 2014, teams at Protix researched different types of insects. Eventually, they discovered that the black soldier fly has a large amount of protein. Salmon liked the food made from the black soldier flies better than the other alternatives.

Transforming the EU Agri-Food Sector

20/01/2018

11 Jan 2018: Joint declaration to transform the agri-food sector in Europe into a more competitive, sustainable and trusted sector.

Margaret Bath new CEO of EIT Food

18/12/2017

EIT Food today announces that Margaret Bath is joining EIT Food as its new Chief Executive Officer. As from February 2018, she will take over from Dr. Ellen de Brabander, interim CEO, who has been leading EIT Food since its inception in 2016.

FOODIO - Food Solutions Master Class

14/12/2017

FOODIO, Food Solutions Master Class, is a multidisciplinary, challenge-based learning programme of EIT Food.

Launch of the EIT Food Accelerator Network

11/12/2017

The new EIT Food Accelerator Network will support 40 high impact agri-food start-ups, with in total €180,000 in equity-free cash prizes for the top 3 start-ups. More info below.

EIT Impact Study

01/12/2017

December 1: EIT published their impact study, which analyses the socio-economic impact of the EIT and its Innovation Communities between 2010 and 2016’.

Find out more below.

Cross-KIC workshop Climate Change Adaption Challenges

26/11/2017

December 7: Climate-KIC, EIT Health and EIT Food organise a workshop at EIT House to discuss recent research findings and co-create an innovation roadmap for addressing key climate change adaptation challenges

Klaus Beetz @ Digitising agriculture and food value chain by DG AGRUI - DG RTD - FOOD2030

06/11/2017

November 24: This event forms part of the Horizon 2020 Societal Challenge 2 InfoWeek. Our former COO Klaus Beetz will give a talk, learn more by clicking on the button below.

Krzysztof Klincewizc @ Cross KIC RIS event

06/11/2017

November 22 - 23: The event will be organised by EIT RawMaterials, its EIT RawMaterials HUB Regional Center Adria and the Slovenian Strategic Research and Innovation Partnership (SRIP) – Circular Economy. Read more below.

Klaus Beetz @ DG ICT-AGRI conference

06/11/2017

November 17: The focus of the conference is on digitisation in the agri-food system: Opportunities and challenges, European collaboration, and ICT-AGRI contributions of 8 years. Find the program details below.

Begoña Pérez-Villareal @ CAETS Annual Meeting

06/11/2017

November 13 - 17: Under the CAETS motto of Engineering a Better World, this year there will be a 2-day conference centered on Engineering and the Bioeconomy including a presention by our director of CLC South. More info below.

Thomas Becker @ VDI Landtechnik

06/11/2017

November 10 - 11: The LAND.TECHNIK International Conference on Agricultural Engineering is the official opening event of biannual AGRITECHNICA. Our CLC central director will be presenting, discover more below.

Andrew Carlin @ BBSRC

03/11/2017

November 2: The Diet and Health Research Industry Club (DRINC) just had their dissemination event (Manchester). Andrew Carlin presented EIT Food, download his presentation below.

MOOCs by EIT Innoenergy, EIT Digital & EIT Health

26/10/2017

Have a look at these interesting MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses): (1) Blockchain in the Energy Sector; (2) Big Data in Health and; (3) Impact of Climate Change on Public Health

Dr. Thorsten Koenig @ Global Food Summit

20/10/2017

November 29 - 30: Our director of innovation will be one of the speakers at the Global Food Summit in Berlin. Discover more about the summit by clicking on the button below.

Begoña Pérez-Villarreal & Prof. Dr. Jochen Weiss @ EFFoST

20/10/2017

November 13 - 16: The 31st EFFoST International Conference will be held in Sitges, Spain under the theme: Food Science and Technology Challenges for the 21st Century - Research to Progress Society. More info below.

Prof. Dr. Krzysztof Klincewicz @ EKMA

20/10/2017

November 7 - 8: The Congress is a two-day event with a EU dimension, aimed at agribusiness managers and intended to provide them with an annual update on the trends abundant in the agricultural area. Read more below.

EIT Food stand @ Food Matters Live

19/10/2017

November 21 - 23: Visit the EIT Food stand and our partners Döhler, DSM, Nestlé, Valio and University of Reading at the UK’s biggest cross-sector event. Find out more at the link below.

GROW your REGIOn in Valencia

18/10/2017

November 8 - 9: co-organised by the European Commission's Directorate-Generals for 'Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs' and for 'Regional and Urban Policy', in cooperation with the Valencia Regional Authority. Find more info below.

Prof. Dr. Jochen Weiss @ Food 2030

11/10/2017

October 16: This one day conference will serve to disseminate successful European Research and Innovation (R&I) initiatives and contribute to the ongoing science-policy dialogue in the area of Food Nutrition and Security.

Dr. Thorsten Koenig @ Future Food-Tech Summit

11/10/2017

October 18 - 19: As part of Rethink Ag & Food Innovation Week, Future Food-Tech, London aims to bridge the gap between food, health and the medical system. Click on the button for more info.

EIT Awareness Day in Tallinn

11/10/2017

October 13, 2017: The EIT with the Estonian Ministry of Education and Research is organising an EIT Awareness Day on 13 October 2017 in Tallinn. Have a look at the link below.

Our RisingFoodStars @ Innoveit

05/10/2017

Linda Grieder (Rethink Resource) and Isabel Hoffmann (Tellspec) will showcase while Nora Khaldi (Nuritas) is a keynote speaker at InnovEIT! Discover more by downloading the PDF below.

INNOVEIT 2017

29/09/2017

October 16-17: Have you registered yet? Don't miss the chance to engage with top EU innovators! Register by clicking on the button below.

Prof. Dr. Thomas Hoffman @ 10 Years Fraunhofer

27/09/2017

November 13: 10 Years Fraunhofer Alliance Food Chain Management - Symposium "Food Systems - Fit for the future?" More info below.

Prof. Dr. Jochen Weiss @ IFOOD’17

24/09/2017

October 9: Our Director for Education, Prof. Dr. Jochen Weiss will be presenting at the 4th Innovation Food Conference. Discover more about the event below.

February 2017 - Innovation Marketplace, Bilbao

01/09/2017

Discover more about our first innovation marketplace in Bilbao here.