EIT Food Part of EIT’s Innovation community Andrew Carlin (Interim Director, North West CLC) EIT_Food

Mission EIT Food’s mission is to catalyse the transformation of the food system and effectively meet the global food sector demands of present and future generations by building, managing and empowering a sustainable and trusted multi-stakeholder community with a central role for the consumer.

Challenges Objectives Low consumer trust & transparency Distorted nutritional habits Sustainability Fragmented supply chain Skills gap Limited entrepreneurial culture Overcome low consumer trust Create consumer-valued food for healthier nutrition Build a consumer-centric connected food system Enhance sustainability through resource stewardship Educate to engage, innovate and advance Catalyse food entrepreneurship and innovation

The EIT Food community 5 innovation hubs Co-location Centers (CLCs) Leuven (BE-FR-CH) Reading (UK-IE-IS) Madrid (SP-IT-IL) Munich (DE-NL) Warsaw (PL-NO) Core partners Industry Higher education Research RisingFoodStars Start-ups Network partners Civil society Regional and public authorities

EIT Food partners: transforming our food system together

CLC North West Core Partners UK Agrimetrics Ltd Quadram Institute PepsiCo Queen’s University of Belfast University of Cambridge University of Reading Waitrose Ireland ABP Food Group Iceland Matis Icelandic Food & Biotech R&D

Strategy EIT Food 4 functional areas

EIT Food Innovation programmes Empower consumers to self-monitor lifestyle and health performance and enable informed healthier decisions and sustainable consumption habits EIT Food Assistant Consumer-centric “fork-to-farm” approaches to deliver personalised healthy food at economies-of-scale associated with mass production Your Fork2Farm Digitalisation of the food system to boost a demand-driven, resource-efficient food production and build trust by increasing traceability and auditability of food quality, safety and authenticity The Web of Food Transforming today’s linear “produce-use-dispose” model into a circular bio-economy centered around the consumer The Zero Waste Agenda

Business Creation programmes Students Graduates with a business idea Students / Entrepreneurs Innovation Grants Challenge-based competitions Global Food Venture programme Entrepreneurs developing their business models Recently founded Start-ups (with a business model) Accelerator programme Seed / early phase Start-ups Access to finance Ventures Funding RisingFoodStars SME Elevator Start-ups SME’s

andrew.carlin@eitfood.eu eitfood.eu