2022 KIC's activities Innovation, Business Creation, Education Governance and Outreach, HEI

在以信任和公平的方式为不断增长的人口提供可持续、安全和健康的食品方面，食品系统面临着巨大的挑战。大学有责任与政府、行业和社会合作，为我们的食物系统解决问题并提供解决方案。因此，QUB与EIT Food合作，EIT Food是一个由Horizon Europe资助的大型泛欧洲能力中心，汇集了100多家欧洲领先的农业食品公司、研究机构、大学和初创公司，以指导和加速将改变食品体系的创新进程。QUB与EIT食品合作，提供创新、教育、商业创造和战略计划。EIT食品路线图：QUB与学术和行业合作伙伴共同设计并发布了两个路线图，以实现净零食品体系；以及一个完全透明、有弹性和公平的食品体系，该体系识别并回应了最需要的领域，以及EIT食品可以产生重大和独特影响的领域。这些报告超越了EIT Food本身所能做的事情，并作为公众行动的号召发布。教育项目：昆士兰大学共同设计并提供了四个课程，以吸引、发展和增强食品行业及其未来的人才和领导者。这包括两个高级创新和创业培训方案，以激励参与者走在创新的前沿，并为创业者的创业之旅提供培训；以及两个专业发展课程：农业技术农民学院，教育和增强新一代农民采用数字技术的能力，以驱动具有弹性、可持续和有利可图的食品系统；以及为期两天的关于食品中化学污染物快速检测的课程。创新方案：与六个合作伙伴一起实施碳中和项目，以加快实现农业净零生产的进程。它通过确定畜牧业温室气体的最大来源，使用尖端技术测量甲烷并展示缓解方案，并支持农民降低他们的使命，实现了这一点。商业创造计划：昆士兰大学提供了EIT Food的苗床孵化器，这是一个为期6个月的市场发现计划，旨在支持创新和有影响力的企业家和初创企业将他们的颠覆性技术转化为市场验证建议。EIT HEI倡议：由昆士兰大学领导的EntreUnity项目建立了一个创业型大学网络，这些大学反映社会挑战，并为影响变革性变化提供可扩展的平台，使HEI摆脱了狭隘的研究商业化视角，并为本地在区域创新生态系统中的具体角色打开了机会。

The food system is facing great challenges in feeding a growing population with sustainable, safe and healthy food with trust and fairness. Universities have a responsibility to work in partnership with government, industry, and society to tackle and provide solutions for our food system. Thus, QUB partnered with EIT Food, a large pan-European competency centre funded by Horizon Europe and bringing together over 100 of Europe’s leading agrifood companies, research institutes, universities and startups to guide and accelerate the innovation process that will transform the food system. In partnership with EIT Food, QUB delivered innovation, education, business creation and strategic programmes.EIT Food Roadmaps: QUB co-designed and published two roadmaps with academic and industry partners for A Net Zero Food System; and a Fully Transparent, Resilient and Fair Food System which identified and responded to the areas of greatest need and where EIT Food can have significant and distinctive impact. These reports stretched beyond the boundaries of what EIT Food could do on their own and were published as a public call to action.Education Programmes: QUB co-designed and delivered four courses to attract, develop and empower the food sector and its future talents and leaders. This included two advanced innovation and entrepreneurship training programmes to inspire participants to be at the forefront of innovation, and provide training for entrepreneurs on their startup journey; and two professional development courses: The AgTech Farmer’s Academy to educate and empower a new generation of farmers to adopt digital technologies that drive a resilient, sustainable and profitable food system; and a 2-day course on the Rapid detection of chemical contaminants in food.Innovation Programmes: The Carbon Neutral project was delivered with six-partners to accelerate the journey to net zero agriculture production. It achieved this by identifying the greatest sources of greenhouse gases from livestock farming, using cutting edge technology to measure methane and demonstrate mitigation options and supporting farmers to lower their missions.Business Creation Programmes: QUB delivered EIT Food’s Seedbed Incubator, a 6-month market discovery programme to support innovative and impactful entrepreneurs and startups to transform their disruptive technologies into market validate propositions.EIT HEI Initiative: The EntreUnity project, led by QUB, built a network of entrepreneurial universities who reflect on societal challenges and provide scalable platforms for affecting transformative change, moving HEI’s away from the narrow research commercialisation perspective and opening up opportunities for local contextualised roles in the regional innovation ecosystem.