2019: EIT Food RIS Solutions

Student recruitment for the EIT Food RIS Solutions program, led by Maspex, concluded in July. The results of the work of four student teams will be revealed at Foodhaton, held on November 27-28 in Warsaw.

EIT Food RIS Solutions is a new EIT Food program aimed at ambitious students who want to engage in solving challenges in the food industry. Maspex and EIT Food partners from Poland and abroad have defined challenges for students in areas such as:

· Personalization in the food industry – “Personalization – better fit food products with consumers and customers expectations and needs”,

Reducing food waste – “Ideas to reduce food loss and waste during the food production, distribution and sale”,

Health and sustainable development – “The challenge of a health&sustainable future of the food system”.

To participate in recruitment for EIT Food RIS Solutions program Students had to form a team, record a short video presenting their solution and fill out the application form on the website: https://www.azti.es/eitfood-risolutions/ .

The program was open to interdisciplinary teams of students (min. 2, max. 4), in which at least one team member came from the RIS region (the list of countries and regions is available here: https://www.azti.es/eitfood-risolutions/process/ ).

Based on the submitted videos, five teams were selected to receive three months of mentoring to support their solution development efforts. After the mentoring period, each team prepared a detailed presentation about their solution. Only four selected student teams received invitations to the "Food Marathon" and will have the opportunity to present the results of their activities live to the jury during pitching session.

Detailed information can be found on the program website: https://www.azti.es/eitfood-risolutions/