Bilbao Hub FAN & Seedbed applications for 2024 are open!
Startups will have the opportunity to join the world’s largest and most dynamic food innovation community and receive continuous support from other like-minded entrepreneurs.
EIT Food Entrepreneurship Programmes have been designed to launch, accelerate and scale impactful agrifood startups to solve global food system challenges and deliver new food innovations and businesses across Europe.
A powerful ecosystem that facilitates training programmes, world-class networking, high impact pilot projects industry events and a community supporting entrepreneurs at all stages of their journey.
Applications are open until 26th of February.
Seedbed Incubator
Seedbed Incubator is for aspiring Entrepreneurs, Researchers, Scientists and engineers interested in learning entrepreneurial skills and testing their innovation concept with real customers in agrifood markets across Europe, to create a validated business plan with high-impact potencial to transform the food system. The startups participating on the programme will be granted up to 10.000 euros for travel to networking events and meetings to speak with at least 100 customers and end users, to test the market need and refine commercial assumptions and validate market need.
Seedbed aims to commercialise science and technology based on innovations that have the potencial to solve the world´s most pressing agrifood challenges. Establish if there’s a viable market need for your innovation & evaluate the scale of its commercial potential!
Our Seedbed Incubator programme addresses the critical challenge of non-communicable disseases and poor nutrition, through "Healthier lives through food" mission. Access the world’s largest food innovation network, with 160+ industry, academic and corporate partners in 26+ European countries, and 200+ experts and mentors. Some of the benefits of the programme are:
- Partaking in a structured and proven hands-on process for validating the market need for science-based tech innovations.
- Support by dedicated business experts who act as a business co-founder to test core business assumptions and identify relevant market(s).
- Exclusive access to an ecosystem of world leading agrifood players.
- Warm introductions and invitations to agrifood industry networking events.
- Platform to nurture peer to peer collaborations.
- Objectively assess the market potential of your innovative concept using concrete customer data and insights.
We will make a difference on the health of the society by enabling more consumers to make better choices through access to healthier products and actionable information.
Bilbao FAN Accelerator
FAN Accelerator is for registered (pre-)seed startups with traction indicators looking for tech validation and business acceleration to drive the ultimate goal - a successful market adoption.
The EIT Food Accelerator Network programme delivered in Bilbao aims to develop the science, technologies and knowledge needed to support a resilient food system through Re-thinking Packaging for Circular & Sustainable Food Supply Chains of the Future. We accelerate agrifood tech startups, validate their technology and offer training, education, coaching, mentoring, investment opportunities and access to the world’ largest food innovation community. At the end of the programme, the best 3 Startups will have the opportunity to receive financing to further test their product / technology with 20k, 30k and 50k prizes.
Bilbao's Re-thinking Packaging for Circular & Sustainable Food Supply Chains of the Future themed EIT Food Accelerator Network programme stimulates innovation, knowledge and the development of new economic, environmental and social approaches. We are looking at startups that have developed innovations in the following areas:
- Compostable / Biodegradable Food Packaging.
- Eco friendly coatings and laminates.
- Smart packaging (incl. active and intelligent packaging materials such as oxygen absorbers, enzymatic packaging materials, antimicrobial systems).
- Minimal processing technologies (incl. thermal and non thermal methods, modified atmosphere packaging, natural food preservatives & ingredients).
- Resource efficient packaging solutions (minimized use of material and energy throughout its lifecycle with the minimized amount of material losses, meaning not recycled).
- Novel recycling processing (incorporation of recycled plastic in food packaging as a primary raw material, innovative mechanical/chemical/enzymatic recycling and/or upcycling processes).
- Recycling improvement & new reuse.
- Revalorization of sub-products and residues to reduce waste.
RaisingFoodStars Programme
RaisingFoodStars is for impact-driven aspiring sacleups looking for to succesfully upscale their commercial capabilities, whether is it expanding beyong your current market(s), raising funds or gaining new commercial partners.
It offers personalised scaleup support, such as helping startups to define their strategic priorities, attract the right talent, build leadership and management capabilities, crytalise their business model and much more.
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