As the world’s largest and most dynamic food innovation community, EIT Food (EF) accelerates innovation to build a future-fit food system that produces healthy and sustainable food for all. To achieve this, EF brings together the strengths of innovation, entrepreneurship and education across a diverse range of people and organisations representing the entire food value chain - from consumers and start-ups to universities and global corporations. Our plan builds on the strong industry, political and financial momentum the organization has created to take us and the partnership to the next stage in delivering long-term impact and ensuring that EF is financially sustainable for the future.
Its business plan 2023-2025 drives deep, systemic transformational impact through innovation to tackle key challenges facing the agrifood sector today, through four priorities:
Missions-driven approach: Aligning with EF three missions, Healthier Lives Through Food, A Net Zero Food System, Reducing Risk for a Fair & Resilient Food System. The plan directly addresses the complex and critical challenges of sustainability and climate change, non-communicable diseases and poor nutrition, and consumer trust, scarcity and transparency.
Designing for impact: Funding calls seek out innovations with the most potential for systemic change. Through a new partnership and community, they will bring together unique consortia who can accelerate innovation, speeding-up and scaling-up solutions to market.
Transforming partnership around purpose: the organisation’s transformed partnership has a depth of strategic expertise, a core of delivery capability which consistently brings innovation to market, and a broad community providing insight, energy and ideas.
Market-ready innovation: EF is creating an ecosystem to accelerate market-ready innovation, leveraging the pillars of knowledge triangle integration (Innovation, Education and Business creation, catalysed by Public Engagement) to create the foundations for the plan.
