Inspire Explore
Learn the entrepreneurship method leading universities teach.
Course information
- Price
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€49
- Registrations
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Open all year, no prerequisites. Enrol any day until 31 December 2026 and start the same day.
- Level
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Introductory
About : Why should you join the Explore programme?
Our short online course is designed to inspire, be flexible, and easy to join and complete! With four comprehensive modules, we equip you with the essential knowledge needed to foster innovation and entrepreneurship skills. From identifying the problem you aim to solve to securing funding for your startup, our course guides you through the basics of launching a new venture.
Advantages :
By the end of the course you will be able to:
- Map the food and health sectors: their trends, sustainability challenges and key players.
- Pin down a food system problem worth solving sustainably.
- Spot an opportunity, act on it and know how to fund your solution.
- Plan the marketing that gets your solution to the right customers.
What you get
- Start the day you enrol. The course is online and self-paced. Watch the lectures when it suits you, on any day until 31 December 2026.
- Build as you learn. Each short lecture is followed by a template to fill in for your own idea, with completed examples to work from.
- Check your understanding. Each module ends with a five-question quiz.
- Earn an EIT Labeled certificate. Pass all four quizzes to receive your certificate.
- Use it in any market. The tools work the same way in food, software or cosmetics.
- Learn from university faculty. Written by entrepreneurship faculty at leading universities and backed by EIT Food.
Structure and Modules : Flexibility is at the core of our course structure.
Take the course at your own pace, fitting it around your current commitments. Just remember, completion by December 31, 2026, is necessary to earn your certificate.
- Module 1: What is the problem? – Identify and articulate food system challenges.
- Module 2: Delivering your solution – Design sustainable and innovative solutions.
- Module 3: Marketing and communicating – Assess the potential and demand for your solution.
- Module 4: Managing money – Learn how to gather support and funding for implementation.
What you'll learn : Essential knowledge and more...
Food systems
Apply basic systems analysis techniques to describe the food system.
Identify dominant sustainability challenges for the food system.
Recognise how innovations can contribute to achieving societal impact.
Entrepreneurship
Appraise and articulate the value of opportunities.
Identify and use relevant resources to support the creation of social and environmental value.
Implement effective actions to support the creation of sustainability impacts.
Practical :
What you need to know
- Register now for €49: Open all year long until the 31st of December 2026.
Career Opportunities : Boost your employability potential
Inspire Explore gives you the working basics of entrepreneurship and a certificate from an EIT Label course to show employers. The same skills help you start a business or bring new ideas into the organisation you already work for.
“You should join this course if you want to tackle complex challenges associated with the food sector. New ideas are vital. EIT Inspire Explore will guide you down the Entrepreneurial path by equipping you with fundamental skills and knowledge for turning ideas into value driven opportunities and build sustainable solutions to transform our food systems.””
Feedback from past participants
97,5% Overall course experience
Course experience was described as Excellent or Good
93 Net Promoter Score
Would recommend this course to a colleague or a friend
77,1% Answered that the likelihood of them setting up their own business increased
As direct result of this course
Inspire. Explore. Compete. returns in 2027.
The Inspire Programme 2026
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€49
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€99
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€249
Inspire Impact
Programme Lead :
Magdalena Marczewska
Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Management, University of Warsaw
core.inspire@eitfood.eu
Dario Peirone
Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship and Management, University of Turin
core.inspire@eitfood.euPartners : In collaboration with
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