EIT Food Education Start-up Award
Pays up to 10 startups €4,000 each if they came out of an EIT Food Education programme.
EIT Food judges each start-up description form against its official guidelines and hands out up to ten prizes of €4,000 apiece to the strongest ventures founded by people who came through its Education programmes.
The award is open only to students, graduates and professionals who took part in an EIT Food Education programme and have gone on to found a start-up. Winning startups must address a key challenge in the food system.
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