EIT FOOD SCALE-UP ACADEMY
Calling Agri-food Scale-ups!
How to survive, stabilise, and grow.
COURSE PARTNERS



Are you an ambitious agri-food company looking to scale?
Dealing with the impact of COVID-19, figuring out your strategic focus, how to inspire your growing team, or how to fund your business.
Then the EIT Food Scale-up Academy powered by the Triple Chasm Model is exactly what you need.
How will your business benefit?
The EIT Food Scale-up Academy is an exciting new program that helps Europe’s most promising agri-food companies:
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Develop a comprehensive understanding of the drivers of growth
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Define your market space to better position your offering
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Understand your customers and go-to-market options
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Understand the internal factors that enable you to make the best of your opportunity
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Embed sustainability and resilience at the heart of your proposition
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Develop a robust plan; identifying exactly what you need to do to achieve your strategic target
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Expand your network across the eco-system; enabling you to talk to key customers, partners, suppliers, and investors
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Improve your chances of getting the right funding and investment
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Improve dynamics within your leadership team.


The Academy brings together short, medium, and long-term actions under a single coherent framework, rather than treating them as separate or ad-hoc responses.
When is the EIT Food Academy?
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9th November 2020 - 30th November 2020.
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Half-day sessions 10:00 - 13:00 CET
Who is the EIT Food Scale-up Academy for?
The EIT Food Scale-up Academy is for Agri-Food businesses that:
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Have high growth aspirations & potential to generate significant annual revenues or to raise significant equity funding
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Have a technological solution within one of the EIT Food focus areas including targeted nutrition, sustainable aquaculture, sustainable agriculture, alternative proteins, digital transformation of traceability, and circular food systems
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Can send a minimum of 5 company leaders like CxO, Directors, VP’s, Department Heads
What does it cost?
The EIT Food Scale-up Academy is generously supported by EIT Food, and for a limited time only a 60% COVID-19 discount is available on the programme. You only need to pay €2,000 and commit the people to attend the sessions.
In addition to the mentor led online sessions, you will also receive a 12-month license to the Triple Chasm tools, which is the strategic framework under pinning The Academy, based on global research with more than 3,000 companies and on-going membership of the Linked In commercialisation community.

How do I apply?
This program is now active & applications are closed. You can follow progress of the cohort via our social media accounts.
If you are Interested in joining future Scale-up Academies, please get in touch, and subscribe to our newsletter & follow us on social media.