Civitta, in consortium Radar Tech, has been granted the status of EIT Food Country Representative Ukraine, member of EIT Community Hub Ukraine. Over the next three years, both teams will systematically support the development of the innovation ecosystem in the agri-food sector and serve as a hub connecting Ukrainian businesses with opportunities across Southern and Eastern Europe.
For startups and SMEs, this means direct access to tools, programs, and partners that support growth and international market entry. We are now the official gateway to Europe’s largest agri-food community – one dedicated to making the food system healthier, more sustainable, and resilient to future challenges.
Maria Romanova, CEO of Radar Tech
“At Radar Tech, we began fostering agri-food innovations back in 2017, and for the last three years, we have been systematically running various programs for startups and entrepreneurs in the sector. Our experience shows that Ukrainian solutions are in high demand—not just locally, but globally. The EIT Food Country Representative status allows us to build a direct bridge between Ukrainian innovators and the international market. We can now empower entrepreneurs with more tools to build sustainable businesses and accelerate their integration into the European agri-food community.”
Jurii Volodymyr Blavt, Partner at Civitta
“We have joined EIT RIS (the Regional Innovation Scheme of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology). This is how EIT helps high-potential countries accelerate technology development and become part of a global community. Ukraine has one of the most powerful agricultural potentials in the world — and the agri-food startups we already see on the market are proof of that. Our mission is to connect Ukrainian innovators with the resources and expertise that the EIT ecosystem provides, and help them compete at the European level.”
We will be announcing upcoming events and industry activities focused on agri-food entrepreneurship. We will also share updates on programs and opportunities available to Ukrainian agri-food teams and help facilitate connections with international partners and investors. If you’d like to find out which EIT Food tools are relevant for your business right now, get in touch.
About EIT Food
EIT Food is growing Europe’s food innovation ecosystem to build a healthy, sustainable and resilient food system. We empower innovators and entrepreneurs, invest in ideas and talent, and we create space for science, research, industry, and policymakers to accelerate systemic change across the food sector.
Supported by the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT), a body of the European Union, EIT Food has been at the forefront of food system innovation in Europe since 2016.
About EIT
The European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) is an EU body and an integral part of Horizon Europe, the EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation. The Institute supports dynamic pan-European partnerships, EIT Knowledge and Innovation Communities, among leading companies, research labs and universities.
Currently ten EIT Knowledge & Innovation Communities are supported: Climate KIC (formerly EIT Climate-KIC), 28DIGITAL (formerly EIT Digital), InnoEnergy (formerly EIT InnoEnergy), EIT Health, EIT RawMaterials, EIT Food, EIT Manufacturing, EIT Urban Mobility, EIT Culture & Creativity and EIT Water. Together with its leading partners, the EIT Community offers a wide range of innovation and entrepreneurship activities across Europe: entrepreneurial education courses, business creation and acceleration services and innovation-driven research projects.
About EIT Food Country Representatives
EIT Food Country Representatives are members of the EIT Community Hubs in their respective countries. They are independent organisations appointed to connect national agrifood ecosystems in Southern and Eastern Europe with EIT Food’s ecosystem, activities, and opportunities.
A central part of their role is to build strong pipelines of agrifood startups for EIT Food’s entrepreneurship programmes by scouting promising ventures, engaging incubators and accelerators, and providing hands-on support during application processes.
They also attract learners to EIT Food’s education initiatives, including the EIT Food Master in Food Systems and the EU Skills Academies in Biotechnology and Resilient Agriculture. In addition, EIT Food Country Representatives help strengthen national innovation networks by facilitating collaboration, sharing information about relevant opportunities, and delivering activities that build innovation and entrepreneurship capacity within the agrifood sector.
This appointment is part of the EIT Regional Innovation Scheme (EIT RIS), one of EIT’s key measures to broaden participation in the EIT Community and address regional disparities in innovation capacity.
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