EIT Food Summer - Winter schools and challenges
The European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) brings together leading higher education institutions, research labs and companies to form dynamic cross-border partnerships - Knowledge and Innovation Communities (KICs) - that develop innovative products and services, start new companies and train a new generation of entrepreneurs.
EIT Food is aware that new ideas are needed to help solve some of the toughest global challenges and to help transform the food system. Students are great creative thinkers, often giving different insights into possible solutions. That's why EIT Food’s programmes are designed to help them do just that. EIT Food education programmes are designed to bring students, industry and entrepreneurs together to co-create new solutions for the food system, that can have real impact in the world.
- Inspire programmes (Summer and Winter schools) are 3-week long courses on entrepreneurship, the co-creation of entrepreneurial ideas, innovation and business creation principles and skills. Programmes are aimed at giving you a taste of entrepreneurship or to help accelerate your idea.
- Food Solution programmes (student challenges) are focused on industrial challenges. Students work with others on an industrially relevant problem set for a period of three months up to one year.
The Inspire and RIS Inspire Programmes aim to develop a new generation of entrepreneurs and innovators equipped to shape a new kind of innovative, resilient and sustainable food system.
Up today, the accessible projects on Summer Schools and Challenges are the following:
The program takes real-world sustainability challenges faced by the food industry and supports multi-disciplinary teams to find innovative new solutions with the potential to transform the food system. The focus of the challenge will be to produce a sustainable and affordable bakery and/or patisserie solid food for a population with special dietary needs such as diabetes, lactose intolerance, or similar.
- Project leader and contact person: Prof. Paola De Bernardi
Pea-liciuos is a food solutions course for students interested in solving real-world challenges, entrepreneurship and innovation ecosystems. The focus of the challenge is to create a convenient and nutritious ready-to-eat meal based on plant-based proteins that meets the dietary preferences and developmental needs of children and fills the existing gap in the plant-based food market.
- Project leader and contact person: Prof. Marta Bertolino
The programme takes real-world sustainability challenges faced by the food industry and supports multi-disciplinary teams to find innovative new solutions with the potential to transform the food system. This challenge focuses on the reduction of food and packaging waste, to foster the sustainability of the food supply chain.
- Project leader and contact person: Prof. Paola De Bernardi
From 2018 to 2024, the University of Turin has been involved in 94 projects funded by EIT Food, in all functional areas, becoming a reliable partner for the consortium.
Following you can find pages dedicated to open activities for students and for the general public.
