The EIT FoodScienceClass aims to bring students closer to food systems by helping them understand the role of food production and technology in food safety and security.
2020
2022
The EIT FoodScienceClass brings food science and technology into classrooms and turns students into young food researchers to help raise a new generation of empowered citizens.
In a multiple-stage class project, students in Israel, Poland, Finland and Belgium are given the skills and tools (classes, field trips, didactic materials and trainings) to research the origins of commonly consumed industrialized food items in their communities.
With the help of teachers and food engineering researchers, students are responsible to do their own research and critical assessment of the challenges and opportunities of food production and nutrition.
They are then trained in science communication to explore effective ways to communicate and disseminate their scientific findings to their peers and communities using social media and other communication channels.
The EIT FoodScienceClass project started in 2020 with a collaboration between three countries (Israel, Poland and Belgium) and four European partners: Technion (Israel), PAN (Poland), EUFIC (Belgium) and DOUXMATOK (Israel). In 2021, the project has welcomed three new partners: VTT (Finland), Rikolto (Belgium) and FoodBank (Poland). In 2022, the same project partners complete the 3rd year of the project.
The EIT Food team is delighted to join with Impact on Urban Health, ROTA, RSSL, and Reformul8 Scotland to collaborate on a project to work with manufacturers to reformulate food and drink products tailored to local community preferences.
Hear from a selection of EIT Food West Delivery and Strategic Partners as to why you should become the next EIT Food Partner and what exciting opportunities you will be offered from the community!
To truly enable healthier food choices, we need to work together with the food industry to conceptualize new methods upon which a food’s impact on health becomes part of its core identity and not a secondary characteristic.
