Foodback is a collaboration and innovation platform supporting agricultural and food innovations. It bridges various actors within the food and agriculture ecosystem, supports impact-driven ventures through acceleration and incubation programs, and provides ventures with opportunities for investment, financing, and internships from Turkey and the European Union.

An initiative of Impact Hub Istanbul, Foodback has been operating as the Turkey Hub of EIT Food, Europe’s leading innovation initiative, since 2018.

CONNECT

Gıda ve tarım ekosistemi girişimcileri, kurumsal şirketler, akademi ve tüketiciler arasında köprü kuruyor; fikir üretimi ve gelişimi için açık bir platform sağlıyoruz.
– Ağ Kurma Etkinlikleri
– Konuya Özel Etkinlikler​
– Matchmaking Etkinlikleri​
– Çok Paydaşlı Çalıştaylar​

NURTURE

Gıda ve tarım sektörlerindeki farklı aktörlerin güçlü yönlerini alarak en yaygın zorlukların üstesinden gelmek için Challenge Labs düzenliyor; hızlandırma ve kuluçka programlarıyla etki odaklı girişimcileri destekliyoruz.
– Mentor Desteği
– Kurumsal Danışmanlık
– Fikir Geliştirme Çalıştayları
– Girişimci Destek Programları

EXPAND

Uluslararası ağımız sayesinde girişimcileri Türkiye ve AB’deki yatırımcılar ve finansman olanaklarıyla buluşturuyor, EIT Food RIS Fellowships burs desteğiyle yurtdışında staj imkanı sağlıyoruz.
– Pazara Erişim
– Yatırımcılara Erişim
– AB Finansmanına Erişim

EIT & EIT Food Hakkında

Avrupa Inovasyon ve Teknoloji Enstitüsü (EIT), Avrupa’nın yenilik kapasitesini güçlendirmek için 2008 yılında Avrupa Birliği tarafından oluşturulan bir AB organıdır. EIT, Avrupa Birliği’nin araştırma ve yenilik çerçeve programı olan Horizon 2020 programının bir parçasıdır.

EIT Food, tarım ve gıda sektörlerinde girişimcilik ve yenilikçilik alanında çalışan bir pan-Avrupa konsorsiyumudur. EIT Food topluluğunun üyeleri, gıda endüstrisindeki 13 farklı ülkedeki en iyi iş, araştırma merkezleri ve üniversitelerden 50’den fazla partnerin bulunduğu küresel aktörlerdir..

EIT Food, tarım ve gıda sektörlerindeki mevcut beceriler ile girişimciliği teşvik etmeyi ve küçük ve orta ölçekli işletmelerin potansiyelini açığa çıkarmayı hedeflerken yenilikleri hızlandırmayı ve istihdam yaratmayı hedeflemektedir.

Impact Hub Istanbul, Foodback platformu ile birlikte 2017 senesinden beri EIT Food CLC South‘a bağlı EIT Food Türkiye Hub’ı olarak faaliyet göstermektedir.

Netflix Adaptation Lab is a workshop and production program in collaboration with Netflix Turkey, Impact Hub istanbul and Tatino Films, aiming to develop the capacity of writers and producers to adapt different genres of works into series format and to create new adaptation projects.

With Netflix Adaptation Lab, we aim to increase the quality of series adaptations made in the world and in our country, and to facilitate producers and writers to produce at global standards in adaptation.

Netflix Adaptation Lab’s application process between 27 March – 12 April 2023 has ended. If you have any questions about the program or have a message for us, you can fill out the form below.

Ludovica Rampoldi (Italy)

Ludovica Rampoldi is a screenwriter who has written for many TV series and feature films. In the field of adaptation, she drew attention with her adaptation of Nick Hornby’s novel Slam for the film directed by Andrea Molaioli. He was also part of the script team for the film adaptation of Roberto Saviano’s novel Gomorrah, which was sold in 190 countries. He co-produced the 1992 and 1993 series for Sky, writing the screenplays for all episodes.

Three episodes of the Israeli series In Treatment as part of the team that adapted the season for the Italian market. In 2022 he wrote 6 episodes of The Gymnasts, an adaptation of Ilaria Bernardini’s novel, for Paramount. His last work was the crime-comedy series The Bad Guy, which premiered on Amazon Prime in December 2022. Ludovica has worked with some of the greatest contemporary Italian filmmakers, including Bernardo Bertolucci and Marco Tullio Giordana. She recently collaborated twice with Marco Bellochio on the mini-series Exterior Night (Cannes 2022). He is a lecturer at the Rome Film School.

Lukasz M. Maciejewski (Poland)

Lukasz M. Maciejewski is the screenwriter of Marcin Koszalka’s first feature film, The Red Spider. His second feature film was The Getaway King, directed by Mateusz Rakowicz, which won the Best Screenplay Award at the Koszalin Film Festival. Broys, co-written with director Marcin Filipowicz, was his third feature film. He is the lead writer of the series based on Szczepan Twardoch’s acclaimed novel The King of Warsaw, directed by Jan P. Matuszynski and broadcast by Canal+.

Davide Serino (Italy)

Rome-based screenwriter Davide Serino began his professional career with the Sky original period dramas “1992” and “1993”. His latest projects include Marco Bellocchio’s first series project “Esterno Notte”, which premiered at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival, the feature film “Ti mangio il cuore”, which premiered at the 2022 Venice Film Festival, and the Amazon original series “The Bad Guy”, which he co-created. He is currently preparing for the project “M. Son of the Century”, a series adaptation of the Premio Strega* award-winning novel about Mussolini. “M. Son of the Century” will be directed by Joe Wright. Davide is also developing series projects in France and Germany.

* The Strega Prize is the most prestigious Italian literary award.

Impact of the program

With Netflix Adaptation Lab, our impact focus is to ensure that the series developed in Turkey reach international standards in terms of technical skills and content, and to create a space for the creation and development of quality series in Turkey and abroad. Within the scope of the first programme, we received 200 applications from various parts of Turkey. We provided 10 selected writers with a 4-month training/mentorship process accompanied by international mentors.

KRE-AKT (Creative Activism) support program, which took place for the second time this year with the support of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom Turkey Office and the execution of Impact Hub Istanbul, aims to contribute to existing or new projects that can be developed within the framework of the main theme of reducing polarization and discrimination, to build impact-oriented and sustainable models through creative methods.

The application period of the KRE-AKT Programme between 28 September – 15 October has ended. If you are interested in applying for the next round of the program, please fill out the form below so that we can keep you informed.

To 12 projects to be selected under the program,

– Trainings and workshops on developing creative impact models and advocacy activities
– 2-day physical bootcamp process where ideas will be projected and modeled
– Network development support: Opportunity to join the networks of Impact Hub Istanbul and Friedrich Naumann Foundation
– Visibility support (podcast channels etc.)
– Network support (bringing together people, organizations and experts who will increase the impact)
– Enterprise support for the implementation phase up to 50 thousand TL per project to 2 teams to be selected at the closing event.

The program is open to applications from all individuals or teams who are interested in making the problems of polarization and discrimination visible and what they can do to contribute to the solution of this problem.

The program is open to everyone however, it aims to reach,

✓ Employees of the media and communication sector,
✓ Workers in the creative field (independents, artists, etc.)
✓ To activists,
✓ Communities, initiatives,
✓ Civil society organizations.

Impact of the program

In its second term, KRE-AKT has received 180 applications and 22 projects have been supported so far. The 10 projects supported in the first phase of the program received training on developing advocacy and activism strategies in creative industries, communication and the use of digital communication tools within the framework of a social impact-oriented and participatory approach within a 3-week training process.

First Term Winners

UBIQ Collective, aims to contribute to the formation of the memory of the movement by conveying the history of struggle, culture and language of the LGBTI+ movement in the context of LGBTI+ rights and freedom of expression through a board game.

Kız Başına Art Gallery, utilizes the power of art to contribute to ending gender inequality in the art world and to draw attention to other areas of inequality.