The Alt Protein World Is Complex
But that doesn't mean you shouldn't learn more about it.
Find resources, tools and courses on this page!
Want to learn more?
Look through some of our extensive resources on navigating a career, learn about the basics, or jump into more in-depth resources on entrepreneurship, science and technology. Have something to add? E-mail us
Intro Course on Alternative Proteins
Curious about alternative proteins but unsure where to start? Luckily for you The Good Food Institute has a free online course to catch you up to the basics!
WUR Courses Relevant for Alt-Protein Careers
Interested in getting some ECTS credits and learn about different kinds of alternative proteins? Make the most of your education following these courses, and find out what other students think!
Online Resources on Alt-Proteins
Curious about learning through seminars, lectures and online resources?
We have some videos, papers, documents and reports linked down below
Curious About Building a Career in Alt Protein?
Check out this youtube playlist from The Good Food Institute, with years worth of videos about different career opportunities in the alt protein field
Thinking of Entrepreneurship?
Follow this other lecture series to get up to date on the business of alt-proteins from GFI's own resources
Alt Protein Courses At Wageningen University
Take a look at some of the cool and interesting courses we have available here at the WUR to help you find your place and learn about alternative proteins in a way that makes sense for you. not part of WUR? click below
BPE40806
Cultivated Meat and Seafood
Period 1
Course covering the science technology and research into cultivated meat and seafood production, led by João Marquez Garcia a cultivated meat researcher. It is aimed more towards Biotechnology students
BPE40306
Precision Fermentation
Period 5
Focuses mostly on the production of animal derived proteins in bacterial or fungal hosts, mostly focusing of milk proteins. Contains a project on designing your own process. While good for Biotechnology and Food Tech students, food tech students will find it more challenging.
CPT39606
Becoming Food: Cellular Agriculture Beyond the Lab
Period 1
Explore themes around the ideas that make food, the ethics of questions around cultivated meat, the people it leaves behind, and the prospects of a future where cultivated food becomes normalized
FQD38806
Future Food Design
Brand new course as of 2026, designed to help you think about how food design works with novel foods. Have you taken it already? We'd love to know your thoughts!
ENT21306
Insects as Food and Feed
We don't officially endorse this course, as The Good Food Institute doesn't consider insects and alternative protein source, but it might be interesting to you. If you took this course, let us know!