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

粮食系统在以信任和公平的方式为不断增长的人口提供可持续、安全和健康的粮食方面面临巨大挑战。大学有责任与政府，工业和社会合作，为我们的食品系统提供解决方案。因此，QUB与EIT Food合作，EIT Food是由Horizon Europe资助的大型泛欧能力中心，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系统的创新过程。通过与EIT Food的合作，QUB提供了创新、教育、创业和战略计划。EIT Food Roadmaps：QUB与学术界和行业合作伙伴共同设计并发布了两个路线图，分别是“净零食品系统”和“完全透明、弹性和公平的食品系统"，确定并应对最需要的领域，以及EIT Food可以产生重大和独特影响的领域。这些报告超越了EIT Food自身所能做的范围，并作为公众行动呼吁发布。教育计划：QUB共同设计并提供了四门课程，以吸引、发展和增强食品行业及其未来人才和领导者的能力。这包括两个先进的创新和创业培训方案，以激励参与者走在创新的最前沿，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，以教育和赋权新一代农民采用数字技术，推动建立一个有弹性、可持续和有利可图的粮食系统;创新项目：与六个合作伙伴共同实施碳中和项目，以加快实现农业净零生产的进程。它通过确定畜牧业产生的最大温室气体来源，使用尖端技术测量甲烷并展示缓解方案，以及支持农民降低任务来实现这一目标。QUB交付EIT Food的苗床孵化器，一个6-为期一个月的市场发现计划，支持创新和有影响力的企业家和初创公司将其颠覆性技术转化为市场验证EIT HEI倡议：由QUB领导的EIT Unity项目建立了一个创业型大学网络，这些大学反思社会挑战，并提供可扩展的平台，以影响变革，使HEI摆脱狭隘的研究商业化视角，并为区域创新生态系统中的本地角色提供机会。

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.