Free Online Course by EIT Food: Revolutionising the Food Chain with Technology

EIT Food is offering a free online course under the theme of "Revolutionising the Food Chain with Technology".

Course background:

Food quality and safety is increasingly under threat as natural resources are stretched by climate change, hunger, and explosive population growth. On this course, you’ll learn how the food sector can respond to these challenges by adopting innovative tech. You’ll discover how data-enabled technologies are becoming more accessible and affordable, driving a revolution in how the food business operates.

You’ll identify how these innovations can make the food chain and food systems more efficient and productive, allowing them to contribute to the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.

This course is intended for:

• Everyone is welcome to join for general interest purposes.
• This course would particularly appeal to professionals working in the agri-food sector, and entrepreneurs and enterprises looking to transform the food sector with technological advancements and new trends.

Course duration:

4 hours per week for 5 weeks.

Course topics:

• The challenges in the food system: from feeding a growing population, the competition for resources, climate change, the complexity of the global food chain to the double burden of malnutrition.
• How innovation and digitalisation of the food chain can play an important role in overcoming the challenges in the food system.
• State of the art technologies across the entire food chain, from farm to fork, that have the potential to transform the food system; and achieve productive, nutritious, sustainable and transparent food systems that contribute to global food security and the sustainable development goals.
• The management perspectives – economic, environmental, technical, political, welfare and market factors – stakeholders and/or entrepreneurs must consider before introducing and/or adopting technology in the food chain.

Course objectives: 

By the end of this course learners will be able to:

1. Assess the issues in transitioning to a digitalised food system – economic, environmental, technical, political, welfare and market factors.
2. Identify the issues related to a sustainable and innovative food system which delivers the dietary needs of a rising population in a safe, sustainable and responsible way.
3. Explore the different technologies which can transform the food sector.
4. Develop an appreciation of the economic, environmental and health benefits which digital technology can offer the food system.
5. Lead and power learners to become innovative and make the food sector the forefront of innovation.

Course costs:

Learner can join this course for free and get access to it for 7 weeks.

Or upgrade this course for $59 and gets:

• Access to this course for as long as it’s on Future Learn.
• Access to this course’s tests as well as a print and digital Certificate of Achievement once he/she is eligible.

Or buy unlimited for $ 259.99 for one year and gets:  

• Access to this course, and hundreds of other FutureLearn short courses and tests for a year.
• A printable digital Certificate of Achievement on all short courses once they are eligible.
• The freedom to keep access to any course he/she has achieved a digital Certificate of Achievement on, for as long as the course exists on Future Learn.
• The flexibility to complete own choice of short courses in learner’s own time within the year.

About EIT Food:

EIT Food is Europe’s leading food innovation initiative, with the aim to create a sustainable and future-proof food sector, funded by European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT).

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