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Applications for EIT Food’s Open Innovation Call 2023 are now open!
EIT Food is working with a consortium of global partners as a co-host of the Food Systems Pavilion at COP27 in Sharm El Sheikh (Egypt) to discuss the opportunities that sustainable food systems provide in the fight against climate change.
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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.
Entrepreneurship
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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Find our latest press releases below. For all media inquiries, please get in touch with saskia.nuijten@eitfood.eu
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EIT Food has launched two open calls focused on public engagement in the food system and will invest over €3,000,000 in selected proposals: EIT Food Consumer Observatory Call and Proof of Concepts
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Three top performing startups selected from EIT Food’s existing entrepreneurship programmes will receive up to €500K in financial support. With 28 investments in total, EIT Food has one of the world’s largest investor portfolios…
EIT Food launches open funding call for food innovation
August 19, 2022
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The EIT Food Open Innovation Call will fund collaborative food innovation projects that will create positive change in the food system.
#ActionOnFood: COP27 Food Systems Pavilion announced
August 18, 2022
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Leading international organisations join forces to put food on the table at COP27
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As part of the EIT Food RisingFoodStars programme, Deep Planet has partnered with EIT Food and Bernard Magrez to demonstrate the impacts of its AI climate adaptation solution for vineyards, VineSignal.
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14 promising companies have been selected to join Europe’s largest agrifood startup community
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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…
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EIT Food COVID-19 funding has directly supported the growth of 13 innovative agrifood startups and resulted in the launch of products and services from eight innovation projects to market by the end of 2021.
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Lithuanian agrifood tech innovation house ART21 has committed a package of high-tech services worth over €1 million which will help rebuild and modernise Ukraine’s agrifood supply chains after the war.
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Insights that represent the voices of thousands of agrifood SMEs in the UK, Ireland and Iceland reveal the unmet needs of SMEs and how the agrifood industry can maximise business support and impact.
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A new pan-European study of more than 20,000 consumers reveals that less than half of consumers have confidence in the food sector, with just a third believing that the food they eat is sustainable.
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EIT Food is looking for 10 organisations based in Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Spain and Turkey that would organise activities within the Empowering Women in Agrifood programe in 2022.
