EIT Food Innovator Fellowship Programme 2021

Outline

The objective of EIT Food Innovator Fellowship programme is to empower talents to co-create, address, and gain experiences on excellent ideas capable of bringing their careers a step further, and foster innovators ready to respond to global food challenges.

Global challenges in the Agri-Food system require a mind-shift and a thrilling change in the awareness and competencies of talents: the new generation of entrepreneurs is asked to play a key role in solving the planet’s food-related issues.

Talents from academia (Post-doctoral researchers) and non-academia (Young Professionals) are called to boost and diversify their career paths, solve global challenges, and enhance their career prospects.

What is funded?

EIT Food Innovator Fellowship programme funds high-level complementary skills training to transform a lab-idea in a business idea. The training will be tailor-made, unique and delivered by highly specialised experts.

The training will cover areas designed to enable selected teams to acquire entrepreneurial skills together with specific transversal skills to further transform a lab-idea in a business idea. Participants will have the opportunity to broaden their horizons and deepen their competencies, learning how to analyse business propositions from different angles to have a viable, sustainable and impactful project/product or service with an impact in the Agri-Food system. Scheduled workshops will be accompanied by structured mentoring to assist in the advancement of the team's original idea, via a real working viability frame.

Duration

A Hackathon (Foodathon) of 2 days (July 2021); Two trainings of 10 cumulative days spread in two months’ (Sept – Oct 2021).

Eligibility

Post-Doctoral Fellows and Young Professionals: must be, at the date of the call deadline, in possession of a doctoral degree or they must have a Master Certificate and at least four years of full-time equivalent research and innovation (R&I) experience.