Results of EIT Food Consumer Engagement Labs selection process, 2021

Altogether, 10 applications were received from Bulgaria, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia and Spain. The applications were evaluated by experts from CLC North-East, CLC South and University of Warsaw. The local universities will work as subcontractors of EIT Food, liaising with University of Warsaw as the project leader to follow-up consumer co-creation processes in their respective countries that culminate in the development of innovative food products proposed by consumers. The selected universities are as follows:

• Bulgaria: University of Food Technologies, Plovdiv
• Greece: American Farm School Post-Secondary Educational and Training Association (Perrotis College)
• Hungary: University of Szeged
• Italy: University of Bari Aldo Moro
• Lithuania: Kaunas University of Technology
• Poland: Poznan University of Life Sciences
• Romania: Babes-Bolyai University
• Slovakia: Slovak University of Agriculture
• Slovenia: University of Ljubljana
• Spain: University Institute for the Research in Agri-food Resources (INURA), University of Extremadura