The ‘Sustainable Food Systems’ Summer School
Event details
| Date | 01.09.2019 › 13.09.2019 |
| Category | Miscellaneous |
The ‘Sustainable Food Systems’ Summer School aims to address current and future sustainability challenges of the food system. Participants will take on a production, consumption, and socio-economic angle to tackle issues such as environmental footprint, biodiversity, and food waste. The Entrepreneurship Summer School encourages citizens - university students, PhD/Post-Doc candidates, young professionals, from interdisciplinary backgrounds - to create, evaluate, and implement their ideas for a sustainable food system.
Participants will be split up into interdisciplinary teams and learn methodological skills in ideation, business creation, and product development to create idea concepts. Furthermore participants will be able to make informed decisions about their future career as either an entrepreneur, researcher or intrapreneur in the food industry. Promising MVPs will have the chance to get support in the EIT Food Accelerator Network.
Apply now to be part of this unique experience in fall 2019 (applications are accepted from May 1st 2019 to June 1st 2019).
Practical information
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Organizer
- The ‘Sustainable Food Systems’ Summer School is a project of EIT Food, a European Knowledge and Innovation Community (KIC), which was set up to transform our food ecosystem. By connecting consumers with businesses, start-ups, researchers and students from around Europe, EIT Food supports innovative and economically sustainable initiatives which improve our health, our access to quality food, and our environment.
The summer school is jointly organized by the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and the Israel Institute of Technology (Technion).