Innovation Prize 2025

About the Innovation Prize

We, our partners and start-ups have continuously invested in innovation, bringing numerous products and services to market. With the Innovation Prize, we want to reward the success of our community of innovators, entrepreneurs, students, and start-ups, and recognise the impact they make in shaping the future of food.

The EIT Food Innovation Prize 2025 celebrates not only the groundbreaking solutions themslves but also the people and teams who make them possible.

Seven prizes of 10.000€ each will be given to the winners recognising excellence, impact, and leadership in agri-food innovation. Beyond the funding, winners will gain visibility on EIT Food’s global channels, media exposure, and opportunities to present at high-profile events.

Prize Categories

• Market Excellence Innovator: Celebrating leaders who have built strong commercial success and market leadership.

• Rising Innovator Award: Celebrating early-stage entrepreneurs showing exceptional potential.

• Student Innovator Award: Celebrating students and recent graduates turning learning into actions.

• Impact Innovator Award: Celebrating innovators delivering measurable social or environmental impact.

• Global Reach Innovator: Celebrating innovators that have successfully scaled internationally.

• Tech Pioneer Award: Celebrating visionaries using breakthrough technologies to solve food challenges.

• Women in Innovation Award: Celebrating outstanding women leaders driving change and inspiring the next generation.