🧪Have you seen our latest #Impact case study? Making a difference through helping people find employment in the #agri-food sector. www.eitfood.eu/impact-stori...
AMPLE: Driving employment opportunities in agrifood - EIT Food
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Becky Thompson
@drbeckythompson.bsky.social
Science and innovation enthusiast living in Norfolk, UK. Impact manager for EIT Food.
🧪Have you seen our latest #Impact case study? Making a difference through helping people find employment in the #agri-food sector. www.eitfood.eu/impact-stori...
AMPLE: Driving employment opportunities in agrifood - EIT Food
eitfood.eu
🧪A Social Return on Investment (SROI) of €3.15 for every €1 invested! 📌Check out EIT Food’s first effort at an in-house SROI assessment for the Citi Foundation here lnkd.in/eHZBuVpZ 🏅It isn’t perfect but it's a good starting point #KeepTrying #Innovation #Impact #Benchmark #SocialValue
Speaking about a funders perspective of #impact at the recent #ImpactIgnite conference was a great opportunity to discuss the future of #AI in impact tracking and evaluation... what are your thoughts on its potential?
🧪Congratulations to the 2025 EIT Food Innovation prize winners: 🏆 Rising Innovator – Agreenet 🏆 Women in Innovation – Matr Foods 🏆 Global Reach – Microfy Systems 🏆 Impact – Notpla 🏆 Tech Pioneer – Orbiba Robotics 🏆 Market Excellence – Atfield Technologies 🏆 Student Innovator – Gloxad Academy
🧪Vegan cheese that is tasty AND could help mitigate up to 8,850 tonnes of CO2 equivalent per year (which is the same as taking over 4,000 petrol cars off the road or powering nearly 1,800 homes). New #Impact story from EIT food. www.eitfood.eu/impact-stori...
Viva la Faba: from lockdown experiment to award-winning vegan cheese - EIT Food
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🧪I am often asked what the #Impact #Value of #OrganicFarming is. A new study from Systemiq Ltd. has indicated that synthetic chemicals in the food system could be creating a #Health burden of $2.2tn a year. And #Ecological #Impacts of $640bn. #Food4Thought www.systemiq.earth/reports/invi...
Invisible Ingredients | Systemiq
The report provides the most comprehensive global assessment to date of how four major chemical groups—phthalates, bisphenols, pesticides, and PFAS—affect human health, ecosystems, and economic stabil...
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🧪 Just released - a new success story showing how EIT Food supported #Startup EcoBean are turning spent coffee grounds into viable products that save their customers money and reduce their carbon footprint. #Impact #CircularEconomy #Startup #ReducedWaste www.eitfood.eu/impact-stori...
EcoBean: turning coffee waste into valuable chemicals - EIT Food
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🧪On International Food Waste Day - A new impact case study - In just 3 yrs, Green Spot have saved 39,000 Tonnes of food waste from landfill, achieved a SROI of €1.75 for every €1 invested and are on track to reduce 730,000 tons of CO2-equilavent emissions by 2030. www.eitfood.eu/impact-stori...
Green Spot Technologies: Fermenting the future of food - EIT Food
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🧪🚀 Exciting News! EIT Food has just launched its #Biotech Innovation Call, aimed at boosting high-potential innovations and helping them reach commercialization. 🌱💡You can apply for funding of up to €400K per project, covering up to 10 months. See www.eitfood.eu/open-calls/b...
Biotech Innovation Call - EIT Food
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Just to let you know that I'll be sharing my personal experiences regarding 'Shaping systems from within' (online) at 13:30 BST on 10th October as a panel member. Exploring how social value is reshaping systems, practice, and purpose. #ISVCon2025 #SocialValue #KnowledgeExchange lnkd.in/ejntBjBu
🧪Our latest #Impact case study, reducing plastic pollution and 600 Tonnes CO2eq (and much more to come) using fully biodegradable seaweed-based food packaging from the brilliant EIT Food alumni Notpla can be found here www.eitfood.eu/impact-stori.... Please check it out & share #StartUp #Innovation
Notpla: turning the tide on single-use plastic - EIT Food
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Wonderful to see that the European Institute of Technology has assessed the collaborative #Supernovas programme from EIT Food, Manufacturing and Urban mobility as generating 98 Euros for every 1 Euro spent! #Impact #ROI #Equality #WomenInnovators www.linkedin.com/showcase/eit...
Apply for TeamUp2025: closing April 30th! ⏳If you have an impactful agrifood technology this is for you.🌱 6 months training, mentorship, networking and funding to create a startup plus Matchmaking🚀 €2,000 monthly per team🏆 Up to €40,000 follow-up for top teams. It’s also online. lnkd.in/epZiQJzU
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🧪Have you seen the latest EIT Food #Impact Case Study, featuring Mimica yet? #ShelfLife #FoodWaste #UseByDate www.eitfood.eu/success-stor...
Mimica: unlocking the true shelf life of food with Bump - EIT Food
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🧪 New report on Advanced #biotech for #sustainability available now. Key findings: advanced biotech could reduce global #emissions by 6%, the sector holds a $1 trillion economic opportunity and scaling bio-based solutions could free up land the size of India. www.ab4s.org/report
Advanced Biotech for Sustainability
The Advanced Biotechnology for Sustainability report reveals the potential of advanced biotechnology to reduce global emissions by 5% and generate $1 trillion in economic value.
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🧪$8 trillion in hidden global costs arises from unhealthy dietary patterns which are linked to Non-Communicable Diseases. State of food and agriculture 2024 report, United Nations FAO. #EITFood are attempting to mitigate some of this #Impact through new #Innovations. www.fao.org/publications...
The State of Food and Agriculture
The State of Food and Agriculture, FAO's major annual flagship publication, aims at bringing to wider audience balanced science-based assessments of importan...
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🧪 Apply now! Fast track to market funding of up to €300k available for small companies based in Europe (EU or Horizon Europe eligible country). Learn more here www.eitfood.eu/open-calls/f...
Now open! EIT Food Fast Track to Market 2025 - EIT Food
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🧪 More than 40 farmers from Serbia exploring #RegenerativeAgriculture practice last week with #EITFood. Learn more here www.eitfood.eu/projects/reg...
🧪 EIT Food supported project 'The kitchen adventure' at a food bank workshop in Poland where they helped students and their parents enact more sustainable eating habits using cooking classes. #Healthy #Sustanable #Nutrition #Change www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fk0o...
The Kitchen Adventure project (ENG)
YouTube video by Bank Żywności w Olsztynie
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We scored 8/10 as part of our 7-year-review from EIT! "Since its launch, EIT Food has become the world’s largest food #innovation community ..... making significant contributions to Europe’s food system". Read it here: eit.europa.eu/library/seve...
Who else can see the planet parade tonight? After the sun fully set we spotted Uranus (we think) and Neptune was just to the left of Venus but our little telescope couldn't find it.
🧪Window 5 of EIT Food Impact Funding Framework call is open until the 13th March. "If you’ve got an idea that will change food systems for the better, we want to fund it". You can apply via larger-scale collaborative programmes or innovative single projects. www.eitfood.eu/open-calls/i...
EIT Food Impact Funding Framework - EIT Food
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One of my sessions at the 'Securing EU research funding by communicating and demonstrating societal impact' workshop, hosted by the Lithuanian RDI Liaison Office LINO and organised by the organisation for Advancing and Evaluating the Societal Impact of Science AESIS Network. #KE #Collaboration.
🧪 Just spotted new research from @cgiar.org that is very relevant to @EIT Food's Mission: Reducing risk for a fair and resilient food system. Might be of interest to contacts working in #Policy, #FoodSecutity or addressing #Inequailities. on.cgiar.org/4am96jg
New Report Identifies Progress and Challenges in Food Systems Transformation in Countdown to 2030
A groundbreaking new study, “Governance and resilience as entry points for transforming food systems in the countdown to 2030”, just published in Nature Food offers the first comprehensive analysis of...
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Just for a giggle... is this too many post-its for putting organisational #impact data and its drivers into grouped areas to identify improvement opportunities?
I think online passes may be available for my workshops on securing EU funding through demonstrating societal impact next week. If interested, please see aesisnet.com/events/euf25/ and ask @Aesis. Note: if my sessions are popular I'll see if we can share my content for @EIT Food collaborators.
🧪 Apply now! We are looking to fund #Collaboration between #FoodCompanies and #ScientificInstitutions to create #Innovative food products based on ideas #CoCreated with #Consumers. Now open for applications in Regional Innovation Scheme eligible countries. www.eitfood.eu/open-calls/r...
Request for EIT Food RIS Consumer Engagement Labs Implementing Participants (Only for RIS Countries) - EIT Food
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🧪 8000 students gained knowledge and skills by creating meals from ingredients that would have been part of the #FoodWaste #CarbonDioxideEquilavent burden in Croatia as part of @EiT Food's @FoodEducators programme. #NextGeneration #Impact #CO2Reduction #NetZero www.linkedin.com/posts/fooded...
🧪 Have you seen the 2024 UK #FoodSecurity report? Interesting point about #WaterScarcity's potential impact on wheat and rice harvests. The UK is currently 75% self sufficient, with fresh produce being the most vulnerable. www.gov.uk/government/s...
United Kingdom Food Security Report 2024
The UK Food Security Report (UKFSR) sets out an analysis of statistical data relating to food security in the UK. The UKFSR examines past, current, and future trends relevant to food security to prese...
gov.uk
Just spotted lots of free infographics and tools on #FoodSafety, #Nutrition and #FoodWaste created by @eufic.bsky.social here www.eufic.org/en/resources. Might be useful for my contacts for #Education and #PublicEngagement purposes.
Resources
Dive into a wealth of resources on nutrition, food safety, and more. Infographics, webinars, toolkits - tailored for all knowledge seekers!
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