The Inspire Programmes aim to develop a new generation of entrepreneurs and innovators equipped to shape a new kind of innovative, resilient, and sustainable food system.
Inspire is driven by the three missions of EIT Food:
Welcome to Inspire Programmes - Where Your Entrepreneurial Journey Begins!
Have a passion for innovation in the food system? Turn your ideas into reality and compete for exciting cash prizes!
Building on your entrepreneurial foundation, the Inspire Programme equips you with the skills and mindset to drive real change. Join us in revolutionizing the global food system and shaping a more sustainable future.
Are you ready to make an impact? Let’s shape the future of food together!
The Inspire Programme equips you with the skills and knowledge to drive innovation in the food system. With hands-on experience and real-world problem-solving, you’ll have the flexibility to learn at your own pace through online, onsite, synchronous, and asynchronous formats - including field visits for practical learning.
Gain key entrepreneurial skills in design thinking, business idea development, team building, market research, risk analysis, negotiation, and pitching, all within the context of food systems.
Learn from a high-quality curriculum based on EIT Food’s Competency Framework, combining entrepreneurship education with leadership, communication, problem-solving, creativity, and critical thinking.
Receive expert mentorship from EIT Food professionals, industry leaders, and startup entrepreneurs who will guide and support you throughout the programme.
Explore cutting-edge Deep Tech fields such as artificial intelligence, biotechnology, blockchain, robotics, sustainable energy, and geosensing, while addressing key EIT Food focus areas, including alternative proteins, sustainable agriculture, targeted nutrition, circular food systems, and digital traceability.
Details for individual programmes will be available shortly – join our community to receive updates!
Who is it for?
The Inspire Programmes are open to the participants from around the world at different career levels (students, young professionals, food retailers, aspiring entrepreneurs, established employees and entrepreneurs). Thanks to the flexibility of our programmes everyone can choose the learning path that suits their needs best. Multidisciplinary backgrounds (e.g. Food Science, Other Sciences, Engineering, Business/ Marketing, Informatics and Computational Science) are welcome and encouraged.
We are looking for:
Students and researchers researching on the topic with multidisciplinary backgrounds and looking for a new career opportunity
Aspiring entrepreneurs interested in innovating in the food system and in improving the wellbeing of the population by providing them with safer and healthier products and looking for a coaching experience by EIT Food renowned experts in entrepreneurship, innovation, and food systems.
Commercial organisations interested in building links with a pool of talented food and nutrition researchers, innovators and students and aiming to shape the new generation of talent in the food system we are looking for sponsorship opportunities; get in touch!
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For RIS INSPIRE PROGRAMME activities, all candidates must additionally hold a RIS citizenship from the following countries or regions:
EU Member States: Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain.
Horizon Europe Associated Countries: Montenegro, Republic of North Macedonia, Serbia, Turkey, Ukraine, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Israel.
Outermost Regions: Guadeloupe, French Guiana, Réunion, Martinique, Mayotte and Saint-Martin (France), the Azores and Madeira (Portugal), and the Canary Islands (Spain).
I enjoyed the practical applications and interactive assignments, which made learning engaging. The instructor’s teaching style was excellent, and the group projects helped apply theoretical knowledge to real-world scenarios.
I'm totally impressed with this great opportunity and availability to take a part on this course, because it's really helpful, short, effective learning method, I could exercise it from everywhere and passing the exams on my own time framework. Also, educators were really efficient as they could because of limited time, very preciously speaking and explaining, covering all necessary information, especially for practice, I love it! I hope that you will organize more courses like this one, in order to develop and improve our knowledge about food, agriculture, economy etc.
The course content is quite instructive, informative and insightful. Lots of articles and sources has been shared with us. The lecturers are all experts in the fi eld of the topic. Moreover it is quite good that it is a project based course. It enables us to create a network with other participants and learning from each other. We are free to ask questions thanks to live sessions.
The most enjoyable aspect of this course was its comprehensive approach to integrating technology into the food system. This course has deepened my appreciation for the transformative power of digital technologies and inspired me to think critically about their role in creating a sustainable future for food systems.
I most enjoyed the opportunity to learn about real case studies and examples of successful innovations in the food system. These practical insights provided a tangible connection between theoretical knowledge and its application in real-world scenarios.
So far, this is the most inspiring and valuable course I ever had. I love the way the committee designed this course (in terms of the course topics and practice).
The lectures and the workshops were very interesting. I really enjoyed meeting all the other students in person. Networking was without a doubt an extremely important part of the course.
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