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

2. 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.

3. 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

4. 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

5. EIT Food partners:
transforming our food system together

6. CLC North West Core PartnersUK
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

8. Strategy EIT Food
4 functional areas

10. 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

11. 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

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