Food Systems Innovation Aeres University of Applied Sciences

Overview

During this Food Systems Innovation degree at Aeres University of Applied Sciences  you gain the knowledge and skills needed to become a T-shaped professional: both generalist and specialist, deploying your specialist knowledge in an integral and interdisciplinary manner and developing and implementing innovative routes to solutions.

Key facts:

• You learn to point out challenges, recognise and valorise opportunities for innovation and facilitate transdisciplinary cooperation. You do this by working on existing food issues from practice with various actors and interests. 

• This way, the Food Systems Innovation master trains you to become a professional that connects large-scale systemic thinking with concrete professional fields within the food system.

• The master Food Systems Innovation trains you to develop ground-breaking solutions for complex issues through a system and transition approach. You become a change agent, who, with other actors, designs clever, trans-domain innovations which contribute to a healthier and more sustainable food system.

Career opportunities:

• Advisor: offers strategic advice to different clients and ensures that innovative processes are initiated and implemented;

• Innovations project manager: coordinates innovation projects from the initial idea right up to the implementation;

• Entrepreneur: combines innovative strength and corporate social responsibility, and introduces sustainable innovations to the market;

• Intrapreneur: an entrepreneur in a large company, who is able to freely develop future-oriented products and services;

• Researcher: researching large scale developments and innovative solutions, in academic or business environments.