CAREER
Providing everyone in the world with enough fresh food and the opportunity to live in a healthy, green environment. This is the challenge we tackle every day at HortiHeroes. And we need talent to achieve this! Young people who may or may not yet be familiar with the sector, with a fresh perspective, innovative ideas and different passions and areas of expertise. To learn and to create with one another. From start-ups and students to professionals, entrepreneurs, new and existing companies and investors. Because we can only achieve our mission of “zero hunger in a liveable world” together.
Read more about our traineeships and Director for 1 Day here. Curious about all jobs, internships and traineeships in the Food & Flower industry? Then check out the HortiHeroes Job Board!
You too can contribute towards our mission, as a student, entrepreneur or professional. And the great thing about it? There is a lot of scope for combining working, learning and network building.
Innovation Traineeship
START: ongoing
Are you a recent graduate with a technical university degree or have you just started working for a company in the Food & Flower industry? Do you want to use your technical knowledge for a sustainable, healthy world and get involved in digitisation, robotics and other cool tech innovations in the sector? If so, read more about our Innovation Traineeship which gives you the opportunity to work at three organisations, including TNO, on hortitech projects over the course of two years.
CEO for 1 Day
17 t/m 21 november 2025
Curious about the second largest industry in the Netherlands? About the work being done every day to make a greener and healthier world, where everyone has access to fresh food? Then spend a day in the chair of one of the CEOs and give them your (un)solicited advice. This is your chance to get to know the Food & Flower industry and experience a company from really close up!
HortiHeroes Hackathon
Volgende editie: binnenkort!
Do you want to contribute to a sustainable food system as a student? Ready to put your creative or technical skills to work in developing solutions for climate-neutral horticulture? Join the HortiHeroes Hackathon and shake up the horticulture sector!
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START: spring 2024
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