The Master in Food Systems (MFS) is designed to create skills and knowledge crucial for tackling the most urgent challenges facing the food sector today. In the MFS partnership, we have identified a number of profiles that specifically address each of these challenges. All study paths in the MFS combine expertise from three different partner universities - the "home institution" and two other universities where students spend their 2nd and 3rd semester. Select the profile that best matches your area of interest, to find the study paths which offer the deepest focus on this area.
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All study paths share the same basic structure: the journey starts at one of the partner universities, were students enrol in the online 7.5 ECTS module "Introduction to Food Systems" together with the entire international cohort, and collect 22.5 ECTS in the track (package of modules) offered by the home university. For the 2nd semester, students rotate to their 1st host university, as determined by the path they have been placed in at enrolment. Here again, 22.5 ECTS are collected from the specific track offering of that university, and 7.5 ECTS are awarded for a Summer School "Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the Food System". For the 3rd semester, students change universities again, and follow the track of their 2nd host university to earn further 22.5 ECTS, plus 7.5 ECTS in a joint module "Emerging technology business case study". For the 4th semester, they rotate back to their home university, to engage in the final thesis project, which is credited with 30 ECTS. The home university grants your degree, and you receive an additional EIT-label certificate outlining your mobility journey.

All partner universities offer packages of modules in their tracks that are simultaneously relevant to more than one profile. Each university has a distinct area of expertise that they contribute to the partnership. Some tracks offer electives, so that students can tweak their curriculum to emphasize a specific profile. Case studies and team projects in the overarching modules in the 2nd and 3rd semester can be focused on different areas, partly depending on the expertise that each partner can bring to bear in teaching the module. And finally, the thesis project can be tailored to be relevant to one specific profile, also depending on the expertise and supervisory capacity available at each home university.

Finally, a note of caution: this tool is intended to help you choose the right path from the overall MFS offering, and the partnership is committed the information compiled here. But note that

• specific module offerings listed here may be revised during the course of your study (and as a result may offer less content in your selected profile),
• specific electives may not be available for you to enrol in due to capacity reasons (requiring you to select modules with an alternative focus),
• thesis projects are to be set up in coordination with your academic supervisor.

• Circular food systems
• Targeted nutrition and health management
• Sustainable production
• Food safety, transparency, traceability
• Management of food system innovations
• Innovative food processing
• Protein diversification