Who are we?
The EIT Food RIS Venturing School is a joint venture partners that complement expertise in innovation.
Matís
Matís vision is to increase the value and ensure safety of food processing and food production. Its strengths are in research and development in sustainable utilization of marine resources by managing and changing the supply chain of products to consumers and turning side streams and waste into valuable products through innovative biochemical processing. Several employees also hold associate positions within Iceland’s universities, while many Ph.D. students and M.Sc. students conduct their research at Matis in collaboration with the industry in Iceland and abroad.
University of Cambridge
The mission of the University of Cambridge is to contribute to society through the pursuit of education, learning, and research at the highest international levels of excellence. The university boasts a number of international centers of excellence the inspire, enable and research entrepreneurship e.g.: Centre for Social Innovation, Entrepreneurship Centre, Maxwell Centre, Idea Space and the new accelerator programme at the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership. These work closely with initiatives like the Global Challenges initiative to enable entrepreneurship that solves meaningful problems. Collectively, the entrepreneurship structures at the University of Cambridge support the full entrepreneurial journey – starting with the empowerment of aspiring entrepreneurs to the creation and development of early-stage ventures, all the way to small and medium size enterprise growth.
VTT
VTT paves the way for the future by developing new smart technologies, profitable solutions and innovation services. VTT creates technology for business – for the benefit of society. Multidisciplinary experts work together to help customers and partners create new products, production processes, methods, and services. In doing so, we help promote sustainable development, employment and well-being. The Digital Transformation team focuses on how companies move forward and take benefit from digitalization. We have created tools that support internal discussion and prioritization of digitalization actions, and take into account people, business and technology perspectives.
