🚀 Do you have an idea that could change the world (or at least Tartu)?
💡 Apply for the sTARTUp Tartu Business Ideas Programme 2026 – From Idea to MVP!
📅 Applications are open until 9 November 2025
🔗 https://teaduspark.ee/ideest-mvpni/
🌱 Or maybe you’d like to help shape the future of food?
🍽 Join the Hack the Future of Food 2025 hackathon!
📅 7–8 November 2025
📍 Tartu Environmental Education Centre
🔗 https://biopark.ee/et/events/hack-the-future-of-food-2025/
💼 sTARTUp Tartu – From Idea to MVP
Have an idea? This programme helps you turn it into a real solution!
Anyone living or working in Tartu is welcome to apply – individually or as a team.
No previous business experience needed – what matters is your motivation to make things happen!
In the programme you will:
✨ develop and test your idea with experienced mentors
🌐 gain access to Tartu’s entrepreneurial network
🚀 get the chance to enter incubation and acceleration programmes
💰 receive financial support for building a prototype
Only 10 best ideas will be selected!
👉 Apply until 9 November: https://teaduspark.ee/ideest-mvpni/
👥 Organiser: Tartu Science Park
🧠 Hack the Future of Food 2025
Are you interested in the future of food and agriculture?
Join this two-day hackathon and create real solutions to real challenges with your team!
📅 7–8 November 2025
📍 Tartu Environmental Education Centre, Lille 10
👉 Register: https://forms.gle/ZWsmqP3owenrcf9S
What’s waiting for you:
🎯 Challenges from A. Le Coq, METK and TFTAK
🎨 Design thinking & pitching training
🎤 Inspiring speaker: Robin Saluoks (eAgronom)
🌐 Networking with like-minded people
🏆 Prizes:
• €1,000 cash prize from EIT Food
• €500 consultation from TFTAK
• Exclusive tour of METK laboratories
• 5 boxes of drinks from A. Le Coq
💡 Bring your own idea or choose one of the proposed challenges – from reducing food waste and detecting plant diseases to AI-based demand forecasting and upcycling production residues.
The event is organised in collaboration with EIT Food, A. Le Coq, METK, TFTAK and Tartu Biotechnology Park.
🗣 The event will be held in English.
👉 More info: https://biopark.ee/et/events/hack-the-future-of-food-2025/
📩 Contact: Keiu Käära | keiu@biopark.ee | +372 522 1392