EIT Food InfraBooster Foundation helps representatives of scientific organisations identify, specify, promote and manage research infrastructures used for science-industry collaboration.

You will take a part in the course delivered as synchronous online training, involving presentations, discussions, case studies, and individual and team assignments.

EIT Food InfraBooster Foundation is an introduction to EIT Food InfraBooster certification pathways: knowledge, skills and competencies; benefits for participants and their organisations.

The course supports you in:

• leveraging research infrastructures (RIs) for knowledge transfer: the third mission of universities and public research institutes (going beyond teaching and research, societal contributions, knowledge transfer scenarios)
• making money from research at scientific organisations: technology transfer, spin-offs, contract R&D, analytical services and education and the opportunities for making money from commercial access to RIs;
• selection research infrastructures (RIs) for knowledge transfer: identifiable, relevant and competitive RIs; looking for RIs differentiators; RIs as the basis for commercial strategy.

InfraBooster Foundation is based on a case study – discussion of research focus areas a fictional university faculty (FADES), types of R&D activities and opportunities for industrial collaboration; research infrastructures – sources of uniqueness, target customers/industries that benefit from the RI, ways of making money from the RI, existing versus planned RIs.

This programme is designed for scientific institutions that own specialist laboratory equipment, research tools, software and databases that are used for research purposes and useful for potential industrial partners who would collaborate to benefit from access to the infrastructure.

Participants from: countries covered by the EIT Regional Innovation Scheme.