New Product Development Training "NPD Skills"

The NPD Skills Training is structured around eight distinct courses, designed for food sector professionals from RIS countries, each dedicated to the field of new product development within the food industry, focusing on its practical application. You can apply for any number of courses, the choice is yours!

Project Management for NPD: Strategy, Execution, and AI Integration:

• Learn how to create and execute New Product Development projects for effective food product creation.

Consumer-Centric Design in NPD & AI:

• Develop skills and tools to facilitate food concept and design creation responding to current consumer needs.

Functional food: theory and practice:

• Discover the principles of functional food design, with special attention to health-promoting values, to create competitive advantages in the market and address market needs.

Sensory evaluation and its role in food product design:

• Apply sensory evaluation tools and methods to create and/or reformulate food products and successfully respond to consumer needs.

Technology management for New Product Development:

• Comprehend the role of innovative technology involved in various stages of the new food product development process aligned with IPRs and business objectives.

New Product Development in a VUCA world:

• Analyse the influence of new global food safety, security, and sustainability challenges in the agri-food industry and learn how to respond to them accordingly.

Communication in the Food Industry:

• Build communication strategies, foster food system innovation, and sharpen essential interpersonal communication skills including stakeholder engagement, public speaking, and more - self-standing course on Canvas.

Regenerative Models in Agrifood Systems:

• Implement regenerative principles to agrifood systems, assess ecological, economic, and social interconnections, and enable the analysis of sustainability challenges and opportunities through a systems thinking approach - course in Italian language.

The NPD Training is a unique opportunity to learn through experience, meet professionals working in the food industry, and expand knowledge in the field of new product development.

Join us and:

• Develop your NPD skills by learning through experience!

• Learn how to create and execute New Product Development projects!

• Understand the principles of design thinking in the consumer-driven NPD process and apply them in practice!

• Discover how to handle competing project requirements and constraints!

• Develop skills to create innovative food product concepts responding to current consumer needs and market trends!

• Network and share your experiences with directors, managers, researchers, scientists, and other experts working in the agri-food industry!

• Get a Proof of Successful Completion!

• Gain new knowledge on NPD in the food industry, apply it in practice, and make a difference!