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Europe’s food system has come under unprecedented pressure during the COVID-19 pandemic that requires an urgent and coordinated response. As Europe’s leading food innovation initiative, EIT Food has launched two initiatives to support the…
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EIT Food has announced the 61 high-impact agrifood startups that have been selected to join the EIT Food Acceleration Network (EIT FAN) 2022. EIT Food is supported by the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT), a body of the…
Results of the call for experts to carry out analyses of national and regional agri-food innovation policies in the countries
Applications were invited from individual experts from the following 17 countries: Bulgaria, Croatia, Czechia, Estonia, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Turkey. Altogether, 36 applications were received from experts representing 16 countries.
01 Oct 2020
EIT Food North-East
The applications were evaluated by independently working experts, taking into account the selection criteria defined in the call:
- Knowledge of innovation policies and issues related to the local agri-food sector;
- Relevant experiences in carrying out analyses and preparing reports or scientific publications related to innovation policies in the targeted country or its region(s);
- Experiences in preparing English-language analytical documents;
- Experience in carrying out analyses, monitoring, evaluation of funding sources for innovation projects for European Structural and Investment Funds and/or smart specialisation strategies.
Experts from the following countries were selected to carry out the analytical work:
- Greece
- Italy
- Portugal
- Spain
- Turkey
- Bulgaria
- Croatia
- Czechia
- Hungary
- Latvia
- Lithuania
- Poland
- Romania
- Serbia
- Slovakia
- Slovenia
No expert applications were received from Estonia. EIT Food will extend the deadline of submissions of applications from Estonia till October the 7th, 2020.
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