We are living in a rapidly changing world which brings new challenges to our society. The world now is facing complex societal challenges that need a collective response, which requires people to break down their silos and start to collaborate across disciplines. This calls for interdisciplinary approach to foster innovation towards sustainable solutions for societal challenges. Food waste is one of the key societal challenges in Indonesia, the fourth largest populous country and the second largest food waster in the world. One intervention to resolve this societal challenge is through collaboration across disciplines by implementing an interdisciplinary approach to foster collaborative innovation in food waste management. The higher education curriculum in Indonesia calls for modernization in various facets, including integrating interdisciplinary and 21st century skills learning to enhance its students and teaching staff’s competitive advantage. It is also crucial to raise their awareness on the societal challenges and involve them to take part and contribute in societal problem solving. This capacity building project, IN2FOOD, is driven by a wide national concern on food waste and a need of interdisciplinary in higher education curriculum in Indonesia. Through this project, we aim to modernize the curriculum in 5 higher education institutions in Indonesia to deal with food waste management as a societal challenge in Indonesia and implement an interdisciplinary approach to foster collaborative innovation. Through interdisciplinary collaboration and knowledge transfer from 3 EU higher education institutions, Indonesian partners are expected to develop interdisciplinary courses including innovative learning and teaching tools, facilitate interdisciplinary co-curricular activities, establish an interdisciplinary research center focusing on innovation for societal challenges, and provide an interdisciplinary master level curriculum design in food waste management.