Inspire

From rough idea to a complete business model.

Registrations: Open all year, no prerequisites. Enrol any day until 31 December 2026 and start the same day.

Who it's for: People who already know the basics and want a business model they can defend. Your idea can be in any market.

Price: €99

About : Stop reading about business models. Build your own.

Across five self-paced modules you turn a rough idea into a finished Business Model Canvas, one document at a time.

You start with your own strengths as an entrepreneur. Then you map the problem, the market opportunity and the people who care about your idea. From there you write your value proposition, choose your key activities and partners, test how your solution fits the market and plan how to fund it.

What you get

A business model you can show. You finish with a completed Business Model Canvas.
Live mentoring sessions. Join live online group mentoring sessions, included in the course price.
A method that works outside food. Worked examples from outside the food sector show the same steps in other markets.
Built on EntreComp. The course follows the European Commission's entrepreneurship competence framework.

An EIT Labeled certificate. Pass the final test and get your certificate.
Learn from university faculty. Written by entrepreneurship faculty at leading universities and backed by EIT Food.
Start the day you enrol. Online and self-paced, on any day until 31 December 2026.

What you'll learn : Essential knowledge and more...

Food systems

Analyse the food system using a range of systems approaches to appraise current and future sustainability challenges. Implement innovative responses to address sustainability challenges in the food system.

Entrepreneurship

Create opportunities for social and environmental value creation. Mobilise resources to create sustainable value for others. Design and implement effective actions to deliver impact.

Learn more about our competency framework

Practical :

What you need to know

Register now for €99: Open all year long until the 31st of December 2026.

Structure and Modules : How the course works

Five self-paced modules plus live online group mentoring sessions, included in the price.

Module 1: Introduction to entrepreneurship. Get to know your strengths as an entrepreneur.
Module 2: Idea generation and validation. Find a problem worth solving and the people who care about it.
Module 3: Business model development. Build your Business Model Canvas.
Module 4: Marketing and sales. Position your brand and pitch your solution.
Module 5: Financial planning and management. Find the right funding for each stage of your start-up.

The Inspire Programme 2026

€49

Inspire Explore

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€99

Inspire
€249

Inspire Impact

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€349

All three courses

Take Inspire Explore, Inspire and Inspire Impact together and save €48. Register for all three