CORPORATE OPPORTUNITIES

WHY SHOULD YOU SUPPORT THE PROGRAM?

Our global food system needs new food leaders that are ready to extend beyond the limits and face the
challenges of the future of food. Supporting the Food Innovation Program means investing in a new generation of entrepreneurs and managers that are innovation-driven and socially responsible who will lead the way in the food industry.

1. Bring innovative thinking and entrepreneurial insight into the company. The education of a new entrepreneurial generation has to precede changes. Being ready to face transformation is fundamental to maximize success.
2. Belong to a food innovation ecosystem comprised of thinkers, entrepreneurs, food hackers and thought leaders involved in the program. New trends in food innovation have to be followed and outlined. They will be promoters of new values that will coincide with innovation, such as responsibility towards people and the planet.
3. Collaborate in the engine for success. It is always better together; the Food Innovation Program fosters an education based on human relationships for business success.

HOW CAN YOU SUPPORT THE FOOD INNOVATION PROGRAM?

• Through our Scholarship Program, corporate partners will be able to invest in a student who in turn will be ready to bring their entrepreneurial and innovative thinking into the company;
• Corporate partners will have access to the e-learning platform where they can discover all the lectures and talks by international food experts and innovators that will take place throughout the program;
• Corporate partners will be able to participate in lectures, classes and conferences of their choice;*
• Corporate partners will have free access to the OFFICUCINA Food Innovation Lab for corporate events, visits, prototyping;**
• Corporate partners will be part of a committee that will select specific Innovation Challenges for student teams to work on. Teams will work on innovation projects proposed by corporate partners for six months with different options around the world. Innovation Challenges will allow students to experience an intense and interactive process of ideation and rapid prototyping to create and develop new product concepts. Teams will deliver functional proof-of-concept prototypes to their corporate partners, along with in-depth documentation that outlines the idea’s design and the learning process behind it.

* up to 10 subjects
** operational and material costs are not included

FOR MORE INFO ON HOW YOU CAN BECOME A FOOD INNOVATION PROGRAM CORPORATE PARTNER CONTACT

info@foodinnovationprogram.org