EIT FOOD Lithuania

EIT Food Hub – operates as a coordinator of EIT Food activities in Regional Innovation Scheme (RIS) countries. EIT Food Hub seeks to implement numerous agri-food related activities, transfers the best practices of EIT Food to their respective countries/regions, working with local agri-food stakeholder networks to strengthen their innovative capacities, promotes the brand visibility of EIT in targeted countries, and carries out localized activities as part of the EIT Food RIS portfolio. 

EIT Food Hub targets talents and stakeholders from the three different knowledge triangle pillars – research, education, and business. EIT Food is seeking to engage consumers in the change process, improve nutrition, and make the food system more resource-efficient, secure, transparent, and trusted.

Kaunas University of Technology from 2018 is the coordinator of the Hub activities in Lithuania.