Are you already a mentor seeking to increase your impact? Are you looking to develop businesses that take on sustainability challenges in the Food system? Are you keen to expand your involvement in EIT Food and play your part?

The EIT Food Mentor Academy, is designed to address these needs; creating a diverse group of experienced mentors with an environmental, social and innovation orientation, expertise, and commitment, underpinned by a rigorous and consistent application of world-class tools and techniques.

EIT Food has as strong focus on delivering sustainable and resilient propositions and delivers a range of support mechanisms to entrepreneurs, start-ups and scale-up businesses who will create and deliver new innovation-enabled products and services.

Successful delivery of these support mechanisms depends on a well-developed eco-system of SME’s, investors, corporations, and mentors.

Our success is built on working with and leveraging the latest thinking and tools from our partners and wider across the Alumni of the EIT Food Mentor Academy.

From within this community we bring you the Mentor Academy Connect 2024 workshops designed to bring together EIT Food Mentors, Alumni of the Mentor Academy (across all years) and new mentors to EIT Food.

Delivered through  4-half-days, online, built on a dynamic, strategic, immersive, participative learning framework.

We incorporate sustainability and resilience considerations covering the entire commercialisation journey based on 25+ years of research and mentoring practice worldwide.

Each workshop is delivered by experienced mentored from across Europe and beyond.