Summer School: Innovating the joy of eating for healthy ageing
Eating and lifestyle habits are modifiable behaviours that can have a huge impact on health. INJOY trains innovators to develop commercially viable solutions that support healthier lifestyles.
INJOY empowers entrepreneurs, intrapreneurs and innovators to develop products and services that help to modify eating and lifestyle habits, increase functionality and promote healthy ageing. Nutrition over our lifespan plays a direct role in age-related decline. This third edition of INJOY’s ten-day training highlights the importance of living better, not just living longer. Working in entrepreneurial teams, students receive inputs on how to validate an idea, structure an opportunity and pitch their projects before an expert jury. Alongside this entrepreneurship training, students are given a foundation of nutrition science. They explore the relationship between food and healthy ageing, developing an understanding of intrinsic capacity, frailty, food texture modification, healthy dietary patterns, food innovation, culture – and the joy of eating.
Partners
CLC/InnoStars: Spain
Partner classification: Business
Partner type: Core Partner,
Abbott creates breakthrough products -in diagnostics, medical devices, nutrition and branded generic pharmaceuticals -that help people lead healthier lives with full unlimited possibilities. Today, we are 99,000 people working in more than 150 countries to generate a long-lasting impact on health. Abbott develops sciencebased nutrition products for people of all ages. We partner with healthcare professionals worldwide to offer the most trusted names in nutrition products for every stage of life. Areas of specialization: Abbott Nutrition R&D in Spain: adult nutrition, infant nutrition, therapeutic nutrition, mobility, metabolic health, early programming.
Key Activities in Corporate Innovation
Nutrition
Key Activities in Business Creation
Finance & Investment, Business coaching, Testing & Validation
Key Activities in Education
Entrepreneurship training
CLC/InnoStars: Spain
Partner classification: Education, Research
Partner type: Core partner
The main research areas related to EIT Health at the University of Barcelona are: life and medical sciences, the experimental sciences (physics, mathematics, geology and chemistry), economics, business, law, humanities and educational and behavioural sciences. The University of Barcelona has a strong focus on Medical and Health Sciences (3,244 articles were written on this topic in the last six years, half of them in the first quartile, and 48 patents in the same period). UB has also a diverse network of University hospitals such as Hospital Clínic, Bellvitge Hospital and Sant Joan de Déu, and over 10 associated hospitals in the area of Barcelona. Additionally, there are several associated Research Institutes such as IDIBAPS, IDIBELL, ISGlobal, among others. Specialist areas include: nutrition, cancer, genetics, medicine (all specialities), nursing, pharmacy, physics, biology, chemistry, mathematics, prevention, drug discovery, bioengineering, law, economics and business development.
University of Barcelona
University of Barcelona, Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes, 585, 08007 Barcelona, España
Key Activities in Business Creation
Technology Transfer, Business coaching
Key Activities in Education
Entrepreneurship training, Medical faculties, Healthcare professional education/training
CLC/InnoStars: France
Partner classification: Education, Research, Tech Transfer, Clusters, Other NGOs
Partner type: Core Partner
The UGA in Grenoble is a leading University of Science Technology and Health. Within 80 multidisciplinary laboratories, the UGA is developing outstanding research at national and international level. The UGA offers a wide range of training courses, from bachelor to doctorate, in close connection with the socio-professional environment to promote the integration of its students.
Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)
621 Avenue Centrale, 38400 Saint-Martin-d'Hères
Key Activities in Research and Developement
Biomedical engineering, Life science, Social sciences /health economics
Key Activities in Corporate Innovation
Pharma, Med Tech, ICT, Diagnostics, Imaging, Nutricion
Key Activities in Business Creation
Incubation, Technology Transfer, Business coaching
Key Activities in Education
Entrepreneurship training, Technical faculties, Medical faculties, Healthcare professional education/training
CLC/InnoStars: Germany
Partner classification: Business
Partner type: Associate Partner
Nestec is a wholly owned subsidiary of Nestlé, Swiss transnational food and beverage company headquartered in Vevey, Vaud, Switzerland. It is the largest food company in the world measured by revenues, and ranked #72 on the Fortune Global 500 in 2014.
Key Activities in Research and Developement
Social sciences / health economics
Key Activities in Corporate Innovation
Consumer products, Nutrition
Key Activities in Social Innovation
Healthcare provision