EIT Food INNOVATOR FELLOWSHIP
Empowering talents to co-create, address, and gain experience
Context
Global challenges in the 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.
The future innovative leaders of the Food system need a new set of competences beyond those acquired in research and academic environments – they require a proficiency that allows them to propose, manage, implement, and lead interdisciplinary / multidisciplinary research and innovation projects, to be able to transform lab-ideas into business ideas.
Objective
The objective of EIT Food Innovator Fellowship 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.
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.
The process
EIT Food Innovator Fellowship is designed to offer a highly stimulating and creative one-year programme coupled with the acquisition of key skills and mentoring to translate an idea in business idea. After an evaluation step, aiming to select the best talents/ideas, few will be selected to participate to a Foodathon
Who can apply?
If you have a PhD or 4 years of full-time equivalent R&I experience at the date of the call deadline, you are qualified to apply. EIT Food Innovator Fellowship is open to all creative talents from academia (Post-Docs) and non-academia (Young Professional) worldwide.
Should you need further clarification, do not hesitate to get in touch with us at innovator@eitfood.eu
| Partners | |
| Funding |
EIT Food – EU |
| Length |
2019-2020 |
| More info |
http://innovator.eitfoodfellowships.eu/ |
