Our RIS entrepreneurship programmes
Startups may be small in terms of staff and revenues, but they can be big in the role they can play in economic growth and in transforming the food system.
Current projects
Test Farms
Get matched with a farmer and test your solution on the field!
The Regenerative Agriculture Revolution
Regenerative agriculture offers one of the greatest opportunities to help Europe address human and climate health, along with the financial well-being of farmers.
The Regenerative Agriculture Revolution is a series of activities whose overall aim is to help farmers and agrifood businesses adopt more regenerative farming practices and raise public awareness about the important health, environmental and economic benefits of eating regeneratively produced food.
EWA | Empowering Women in Agrifood
Training, mentoring, business coaching and networking opportunities for women entrepreneurs in the agrifood sector
2021 Applications are now closed
EIT Jumpstarter
Creative community, advanced know-how, unique programme, expert trainers and mentors, this is EIT Jumpstarter. With the contribution of best-in-class experts, creative community, unique know-how our aim is to support idea-holders to turn their ideas into business.
Apply by April 30!
Challenge Labs
Creative workshops designed to find solutions to current and future challenges in the food and agriculture system
TeamUp
Where brilliant co-founders team up and create impactful agrifood startups.
Application support for RIS entrepreneurs
We help startups from Southern and Eastern Europe navigate EIT Food Entrepreneurship programmes
Building entrepreneurial capacity for women from rural areas in agrifood business
Enabling female entrepreneurs to build successful, sustainable agrifood businesses
Finding innovative solutions for water scarcity in Southern Europe
EIT Food, EIT Climate, EIT Manufacturing, EIT Raw Materials and BioAzul joint forces to face the real challenges around water scarcity
The objective of this programme is to enhance knowledge and overcome current barriers to tackle water scarcity in Southern Europe through innovation, entrepreneurship, education and communication.
Legal and Accounting Support for Early Stage Entrepreneurs
EIT Food offers grants for legal and accounting support to early stage entrepreneurs from Southern and Eastern Europe that are making the food system better for people’s health and better for the environment.
RIS Growing Consciousness: Revitalizing agrifood value chains in rural areas
Our objective is to produce a set of activities (summer schools, focus groups, professional workshops, stakeholders and community meetings, business creation support).
Our other Regional Innovation Scheme programmes
