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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…
Fostering transformation in European regions with modest to moderate agrifood innovation rates.
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We guide and accelerate food innovation to transform the food system. We focus on inclusive systems innovation, which enables all people and places to participate and benefit.
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We are attracting, developing and empowering bright minds to lead the transformation of the food system into an innovative sector that produces healthy and sustainable food, and is trusted by society.
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Startups play a fundamental role in transforming the food system. EIT Food supports innovative impactful agrifood entrepreneurs and startups to deliver new food innovations and businesses across Europe.
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We believe that we are all responsible for, and connected to, the food that we eat, so we all need to work together to improve it. Our activities are designed to engage with people so that they can become agents of change in the food…
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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…
Call for Test Farms partner organisation
EIT Food is looking for organisations with a large network of farmers in North/Central or Southern Europe to help link innovative startups participating in our Test Farms program to farms where they can test and validate their products and services.
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Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Italy, Greece, Portugal, Spain and Turkey.
Deadline: 28 February 2021
Test Farms is a programme that helps innovative agritech startups by linking them to farmers and farmlands where they can test and validate their products and services. To help us in this effort, EIT Food is looking for organisations with a large network of farmers open to participate in the testing of new innovative solutions in North/Central or Southern Europe. The role of the partner organisations will be to match farmers in their network with participating startups, oversee product testing on the farms and finally organize a demo day where the startups can showcase their businesses to farmers and potential clients.
More Open Calls
Call for proposals to carry out impact evaluation of the Empowering Women in Agrifood programme
Deadline: August 19, 2022
open call
The objectives of the EWA Programme evaluation is understanding its impact and outcomes within the community of women entrepreneurs supported by the Programme, EIT Food network and women entrepreneurship in the RIS countries.
Call for expression of interest to organise the EIT Food Startup Awareness Event - Ukraine
Deadline: September 15, 2022
open call
EIT Food is looking for an organisation from Ukraine to organise the EIT Food Startup Awareness Event for the local agrifood ecosystem in September-November 2022.