EIT Food Education Business Development support

We are looking for one provider who can deliver the following services:

Support EIT Food Education pillar to establish industrial sponsorships to a PhD entrepreneurship programme with business development activities

Outputs:

Engage and socialise Industrial GFVP Studentships with industry partners in Europe with the goal to secure funding towards GFVP studentships (min 5 partners)

Work with the industry partners to place all existing students in paid internships, leveraging the excellent knowledge already gained by the EIT Food about potential industry partners

Work with the industry partners to engage and proceed to expression of interest for future cohorts

Provide leadership and support with the match-making process

Provide expertise on legal documentation, to help ensure smooth acceptance and avoidance of roadblocks to success

Provide expertise from industry viewpoint to reduce lag time and trigger successful outcomes along the entire process chain

Provide the EIT Food with industry-led challenges for Bootcamps, and other such engagements from industry partners where needed

Value created:

The programme begins to be recognised amongst employers, ensuring multi-year engagement

Employers pay for the PhDs which provides EIT Food with a financial return for sustainability reasons

Employers host students successfully, providing testimonials of success, leading to the programme becoming a globally recognised international benchmark of excellence for food tech

Ultimately the students find jobs in the food industry in areas that help transform the food system to where it needs to be in the future, as the leaders of tomorrow

Ad-hoc requests involving business development to increase engagement and sales of the EIT Food Education’s wider portfolio of programmes.