This includes Innovation Scouting (the identification and support of early-stage entrepreneurial talents), RIS Innovation Grants (awarded in an open competition to entrepreneurs from 15 targeted EIT RIS countries) and the selection of RIS Challenges (identification of Innovation Proposals for RIS specific challenges). The activity implements the "EIT Food RIS Strategy, 2018-2020" and is complemented by KAVA # RIS Action Line 2 and KAVA # RIS Fellowships.
Related projects
EIT Food Venturing School
30 students from many study backgrounds and many countries will come together to use their scientific expertise to come up with new concepts and products that will lead to sustainable utilisation of marine resources.
EIT Food RIS Fellowships
The Action Line is divided into 2 complementary programmes – RIS Fellowships dedicated to Master of Science students and graduates and RIS Talents dedicated to Ph.D. students and postdocs from 28 EIT RIS countries which both aim to promote brain circulation, contributing to enhancing the innovativeness of personnel and development of scientific impact by supporting the creation and diffusion of high-quality new knowledge, skills, competences and solutions to food system challenges.
Challenge Labs
Creative workshops designed to find solutions to current and future challenges in the food and agriculture system
Related articles
EntrepreneurshipRisingFoodStars welcomes 16 scaleups to its family
EIT Food’s RisingFoodStars Association has opened its doors to 16 European agtech and foodtech impactful scaleups!
Consumer BehaviourHow can we improve food system resilience for good?
COVID-19 has exposed the fragility of a global agrifood system that many of us have come to take for granted. Cracks that existed all along ....