New Product Development Training “NPD Skills” - AUTUMN EDITION
Technology Management for New Product Development and Regenerative Models in Agrifood Systems courses
Course information
- Open to
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Professionals from RIS countries
- Dates Autumn Edition (Online)
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6, 7 & 9 October for Technology Management for New Product Development
21 & 24 October for Regenerative Models in Agrifood Systems
- Applications
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Open until 24 September 2025, for Technology Management for New Product Development
Open until 12 October 2025, for Regenerative Models in Agrifood Systems
About : Do you work in the food industry?
The Autumn Edition of NPD Skills Training includes two separate, but complementary courses, each with its own application and selection process. Together, they focus on different, essential aspects of developing new food products.
This year’s offer includes:
- Technology Management for New Product Development
- Regenerative Models in Agrifood Systems
We invite you to take part in the recruitment process for one or both courses. Check the course details, session dates, and learning outcomes and don’t miss the chance to be part of this year’s edition.
Technology Management for New Product Development is designed to help participants navigate food product development through a technology-first lens. The course includes three mandatory workshops, each delivered by a different NPD Skills Training partner, offering diverse perspectives that build essential competencies for modern NPD teams:
- An introduction to stage-gate-based development: led by PepsiCo, this workshop focuses on planning, risk analysis, and adapting product briefs to changing business contexts.
- PEF Technology in Food Innovation: hosted by German company Elea, this module explores how pulsed electric field (PEF) technology can be used to improve food quality, sustainability, and process efficiency.
- Strategic Technology Management in NPD: from Insight to Implementation – this session focuses on leveraging AI, data platforms, and low-code tools to create agile, scalable product development systems.
The Regenerative Models in Agrifood Systems, delivered by Italian Future Food Institute, this course offers an engaging, hands-on learning experience focused on regenerative transformation in the food sector. Through two live online sessions, participants explore foundational theory, apply regenerative design principles, and engage in collaborative case-based activities.
Advantages : Benefits and impact on Participants
This edition of the NPD Skills Training combines expert-led sessions, interactive formats, and real-world case studies to help you move from ideas to action. Whether you're developing a new product, rethinking food systems, or building innovation capacity, you’ll gain practical tools you can apply right away.
You can:
Learn: how to manage product development and regenerative transformation through practical frameworks, emerging technologies, and stakeholder-driven design.
Practice: writing briefs, mapping workflows, applying food tech and sustainability tools, and co-creating interventions in response to real-world challenges.
Innovate: by using AI, PEF, digital infrastructure, and systems thinking to build scalable, sustainable solutions in the food industry.
Take your product development skills to the next level!
What you'll learn : You will learn the following competencies:
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.
Technology management
Mobilise appropriate technologies in innovation processes
Design effective actions to mitigate key unintended consequences of the use of emerging technologies.
Contribute to the development of new technologies for food system transformation.
Manage IPRs.
Problem solving
Appraise the problem space to identify current and future needs.
Mobilise effective methodologies to generate new ideas.
Appraise the validity of new ideas and co-create sustainable solutions.
Details & Timelines : 2 individual online courses
Technology Management for New Product Development - three mandatory sessions
Regenerative Models in Agrifood Systems - two mandatory sessions:
Technology Management for New Product Development - three mandatory sessions:
- 06.10.2025 (11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. CEST
- 07.10.2025 (9:00– 11:15 a.m. CEST)
- 09.10.2025 (9:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. CEST)
Competency Focus: Problem Solving & Technology Management at Practice Level.
Key Topics:
- Stage-gate methodology for NPD
- Brief writing and adaptation under real-time constraints
- Real-world case studies from global food industry
- Pulsed Electric Field (PEF) applications in food processing
- Technology integration in NPD (AI, low-code, data)
- Customer-centric design through digital feedback loops
- Cross-functional collaboration and stakeholder management
By the end of the course learners will be able to:
- Apply the stage-gate model to manage a new product development process from concept to launch in a realistic scenario
- Design a scalable MarTech stack aligned with customer and sustainability needs as well as market feedback loops.
- Analyze the use of PEF technology to improve workflows and meet sustainability goals.
Regenerative Models in Agrifood Systems - two mandatory sessions:
- 21.10.2025 (9:00 – 11:00 a.m. CEST)
- 24.10.2025 (9:00 – 11:00 a.m. CEST)
Competency Focus: Problem Solving & Food Systems at Practice Level.
Key Focus:
- Integral ecology as a holistic lens for assessing food systems
- Real-world case studies showcasing ecological regeneration in action
- Prosperity thinking frameworks for developing ideas within planetary boundaries
- Breakout group co-creation of regenerative interventions with expert feedback
- Market trends and cultural innovations, including the Food Alchemist case
By the end of the course, participants will be able to:
- Critically analyse agrifood systems through the lens of prosperity and systems thinking.
- Assess sustainability needs by identifying stakeholder perspectives, systemic barriers, and future opportunities.
- Apply regenerative thinking in business models, supply chains, and innovation projects.
- Engage in co-creation processes for sustainable solutions aligned with ecological and consumer needs.
WHO CAN ATTEND :
The courses are designed for food professionals who wish to improve their competencies in a particular area.
The ideal applicant should:
- Be a food professional employed in companies, academia, or research institutes
- Have an entrepreneurial approach to problem-solving and a willingness to share their knowledge with other participants
- Have relevant knowledge and experience in the food sector
- Have working knowledge of the English language (the course will be held in English)
- Be a citizen of one of the RIS countries, including:
- EU Member States: Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain.
- Horizon Europe Associated Countries: Montenegro, Republic of North Macedonia, Serbia, Turkey, Ukraine, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Israel
- Outermost Regions: Guadeloupe, French Guiana, Réunion, Martinique, Mayotte and Saint-Martin (France), the Azores and Madeira (Portugal), and the Canary Islands (Spain).
Participation fees
No fee -The Technology Management for New Product Development and Regenerative Models in Agrifood Systems courses, offered within the New Product Development Training ‘NPD Skills’, are free of charge.
Costs are covered by EIT Food. No additional fees will be requested from participants.
Click here to read the Terms & Conditions.
Programme Lead :
Aneta Rzeszut-Pawlak
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