Pathways to Impact for PhDs

Doctoral Programme for entrepreneurial PhD students!

Applications

Open until the 13th of October 2024

Application period has ended

Programme Duration: Programme duration: 21st October – 2nd December

Course soon available

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Overview: Pathways to Impact for PhDs

About
Career Opportunities
What you'll learn
Structure & Modules
Practical

Course soon available

About : For PhD students

Pathways to Impact of EIT Food is for Talented PhD students from across Europe and globally.

This programme will provide an introduction and starting tools on how to change the world by using your PhD research. Join us, if you are motivated to:

Bring entrepreneurial skills into your work & boost your future career
Learn how to change the world using your research
Get an introduction to technology commercialisation
Dive into EIT Food network of leading academic & industry partners

Upon successful completion of the course, you will be able to

recognize the role of technology in our society and the food system and learn how innovations can contribute to achieving social impact
Identify sustainable challenges for the food system and understand the impact of the own research on the environment.
recognize the importance of IPR management
to formulate and articulate their entrepreneurial competencies
to formulate the key elements of their PhD and apprise the impact on the society of their research.
adjust messaging for different audience and devise effective communication methods

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Career Opportunities : Improve your employability

The entrepreneurial skills you will gain will improve your employability, benefit your research funding or help you get inspired in creating a spin-out from your PhD research. As this course will teach you how to take a complex research concept, like your PhD, and formulate it into clear value propositions that can be used in your grant applications, for potential investors, and in the engagement with any other stakeholders.

What you'll learn : This programme is for you!

Entrepeneurship

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

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.

Critical thinking

Collect, analyse, interpret and report information to develop sustainable solutions to current and future challenges.
Appraise unintended consequences of any course of action to devise ethical goals.

Communication

Identify, engage with and respond honestly to stakeholder needs.
Develop strategies to deliver effective inclusive communications approaches.
Translate complex ideas for different audiences.

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.

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Structure & Modules : Work with top-notch trainers and mentors!

Our online entrepreneurship learning is fully interactive and enables you to engage with our top-notch trainers and mentors. Pathways to Impact will not only give you access to our excellent resources, food experts, pitch trainer and coaches, but will also allow you to become part of the inspiring EIT Food community.

Next to our online interactive workshops and one-on-one sessions, the asynchronous training allows for a great flexibility and the comfort to learn at times and from locations that suit you and from your own home or workplace.

PROGRAMME STRUCTURE

This course will provide an introduction and starting tools on how to change the world by using your PhD research.

You will be trained by top EIT Food partners coming from higher education institutions like University of Turin, Technical University of Munich, Aarhus University, Queens University of Belfast, Swiss Food Research and other collaborators, whose expertise lies in entrepreneurship, innovation, and commercialisation of academic research.

Throughout the course, we will focus on following key topics:

Sharp messaging & Communication Training for your research (3 stages)
Entrepreneurial competencies
Research Canvas & Research Impact Canvas
Impact of your Research within the society
Value creation & IP Protection
Ecosystem and (Business) Ecosystem Strategy
Successful collaborations

Additionally, you will be offered a unique mentoring experience by EIT Food PTI who will support you with your research impact creation, and offer additional networking opportunities within their ecosystem.

The course concludes with a final event at which the students present their research using the within the course learned communications skills and will have the chance to win a prize (Free access to a relevant conference).

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Throughout the course we will focus on following KEY TOPICS:

Pathways to Impact, Ideation, Entrepreneurs Cases, Market scoping, Problem/Solution fit, Commercialization of Innovation, IP protection, Research Impact CANVAS, Business Model CANVAS, Funding for researchers, Evaluating & Communicating your impact, Practice pitching & appreciate feedback. Additionally, you will be offered a unique mentoring experience by EIT Food partners, who will support you with your research impact creation.

IN A NUTSHELL:

You will have access to five (5) Asynchronous Modules with small assignments on the EIT Food
education learning platform CANVAS.
You will receive one-on-one mentoring over 5 weeks, from partners that have vast experience in
supporting PhDs acquiring entrepreneurial skills.
You will participate in a series of synchronous workshops so that you do not feel alone in your
journey.
You will have the experience of pitching your PhD towards the end of the course in front of an
expert panel and receive feedback from judges and peers.

Practical : What you need to know

Participation fee

Small participation fee: €120

All prices are including applicable taxes (21% VAT).

A small portion of the total cost of the training will be charged as a participation fee. There are discount options for PhD groups. Please, contact mariana.fazenda@eitfood.eu.

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