EIT Food Science Class – Youth Forum

On the 17th of January 2022 the EIT Food Science Class organised the Youth Forum – an online event that joined around 30 students participating in the project from Israel, Poland, Belgium and Finland.

Students met virtually joined by their teachers to share their main learnings and results from the project. They also exchanged on their country’s food cultures and found common ground in many of their food habits and preferences. Some students reflected on the importance of learning about and preventing food waste and others confessed that even though they did not know what to expect about the project at first, in the end „they loved it”.

The event finished with a „zero waste showcooking” by the Polish chefs Jagna Niedzielska and Tomasz Zaremba (organised by the FoodBank in Olsztyn) where students learn how to do tabouleh with zero food waste!

Food Science Class is a project under the support of EIT Food. EIT Food is the world’s largest and most dynamic food innovation community. We accelerate innovation to build a future-fit food system that produces healthy and sustainable food for all. Supported by the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT), a body of the European Union, we invest in projects, organisations and individuals that share our goals for a healthy and sustainable food system. We unlock innovation potential in businesses and universities, and create and scale agrifood startups to bring new technologies and products to market. We equip entrepreneurs and professionals with the skills needed to transform the food system and put consumers at the heart of our work, helping build trust by reconnecting them to the origins of their food.

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Polish-Icelandic cooperation for the circular economy

Working together for a green, competitive and inclusive Europe

The last quarter of 2021 is a real boom in Polish-Icelandic cooperation for innovation in the field of the circular economy #CircularEconomy. Our Institute, together with the University of Iceland, Reykjavik and the Matís research institute, has carried out a number of activities that will help young scientists in Poland develop the competences necessary to co-create a sustainable food supply chain.

In October, we spent two weeks in Iceland and together with students we explored the phenomenon of the Icelandic way of managing side streams from agri-food production. Plant visits, meetings with entrepreneurs, lectures and exercises. Solving the real problems faced by food producing companies on the island. Then another training in the field of entrepreneurship and commercialization of scientific ideas, already conducted in Poland, with the participation of investors, start-ups and food producers. At the same time, exchanges and visits by employees of both countries.

We are about to work on a unique online course on adding value to side streams from agri-food production, which will equip young scientists and entrepreneurs with the knowledge necessary to create innovations in the circular economy, in which what is waste today has a chance to become fully valuable tomorrow product.

These activities were carried out thanks to the Bilateral Initiative „Innovation, business creation and valorization of side streams of food production and processing” financed by the European Economic Area Financial Mechanism and the Norwegian Financial Mechanism under the Bilateral Cooperation Fund.

 

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