Collaborate with EIT Food’s corporate partners from farm to fork to realize your sustainable agrifood solution

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Get in the Ring together with EIT Food and their Business Creation partners are looking for agritech and food startups, with innovative solutions aiming to make our entire food system more sustainable, healthy and trusted. 

 

Trends are moving towards more sustainable food products, and this growing demand needs innovative solutions to address waste, animal health, and nutrition within our food system. Partner up with EIT Food and scale your agriculture & aquaculture innovation making the food industry more circular and sustainable.

 

We are seeking companies that have a positive impact in key areas ranging from upcycling food waste, plant protection, to sugar substitutes. Alternative proteins are increasingly seen as a solution in providing consumers healthy diets, while retaining their nutritional value. In the livestock industry, animal health is fundamental part of the food cycle. Production losses and resource wastage could be reduced significantly through early detection of diseases and by improving animal health.

 

 

By applying startups will have access to the EIT Food partner network to explore concrete collaboration such as proof of concepts, pilot projects, customer connections or strategic investments.

Companies joining the EIT Food community network will also have the opportunity to join the EIT Food Accelerator Network or RisingFoodStar program. This would give you access to tailored programming, partner facilities and more than €1.2M in equity-free grants and access to EIT Food’s €2M investment fund.

 

 

EIT Food Partners

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The challenge

EIT Food is looking for agritech and food startups, with innovative solutions aiming to make our entire food system more sustainable, healthy and trusted.

With this open innovation challenge EIT Food and their partners are looking for innovative solutions in the domains of; Sustainable Agriculture & Aquaculture, Alternative Proteins and Healthy Food, and Circular Food Systems.

Sustainable Agriculture & Aquaculture

Methods and products that improve efficiency in farming.

Biobased pest control, fertilization, and disease detection technologies for crops. Innovative monitoring solutions in agriculture and aquaculture. Functional nutrition for animal farming.

Technologies include: Biopesticides and biofertilizers, Big Data and AI, agricultural prediction models, IoT health monitoring, automation & robotics, precision farming and more.

Alternative Proteins & Healthy Food

Production methods and innovations for a healthy diet based on alternative protein foods.

Relevant solutions will allow the food industry to develop products, based on alternative proteins, that are tasty, healthy and affordable.

Technologies include: Plant-based innovations, taste & texture modifications, crop extraction, food colouring, sugar and saturated fat substitutes, clean label, cellular agriculture, precision fermentation and more.

Circular Food Systems

Decarbonizing the food industry and making it more sustainable by valorizing side-streams and reducing food waste.

Solutions that recycle waste streams from the food industry and technologies repurposing carbon emissions. Reducing food waste and making packaging more sustainable.

Technologies include: CO2 capture and upcycling, waste and residue upcycling, food preservation, smart and circular packaging and more.

What's in it for you

Benefits:

  • Collaborate with EIT Food's corporate partners to set up proof of concepts, pilot projects, customer connections or strategic investments.

  • Realize your vision by working together with key industry players such as BASF SE, PepsiCo, IFF, Döhler, Südzucker, Zoetis, Kerry Group, Danone and John Deere.

  • You will have the opportunity to join the EIT Food Accelerator Network or RisingFoodStar program.

  • Joining would give you access to more than €1.2M in equity-free grants and to EIT Food’s €2M investment fund

Additional criteria

To be ​eligible for the program:

  • Your company should be at seed stage/series A

  • Your company should be registered in one of the EU 27 countries or one of the 17 associated countries (i.e. Iceland, Norway, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, Turkey, Israel, Moldova, Switzerland, Faroe Islands, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Tunisia, Georgia, Armenia)

TIMELINE

FEBRUARY 28TH

DEADLINE APPLICATIONS


Extended until March 10th!
MARCH-APRIL

STARTUPS EVALUATION & MATCHMAKING


EIT Food will evaluate your application for the EIT Food accelerator programs and the corporate matchmaking
APRIL-MAY-JUNE

CORPORATE COLLABORATION PROGRAMS


The timeline differs depending on the partnership type and corporate you will be matched with
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