Second Joint Transnational Co-funded Call

Accelerating Food Sustainability - through Household Dietary Shifts, Trust and Transparency, and Innovations in Circular Food Processing Systems

Welcome to the Second Joint Transnational Co-funded Call from the European partnership FutureFoodS. We invite researchers and innovators to submit project proposals that accelerate the transition towards more sustainable food systems.

The Call Topics: Accelerating Food Sustainability

This call focuses on three crucial areas essential for achieving food sustainability:

1. Domestic food practices for enhancing sustainable and healthy diets — systemic work at the household level covering food safety, cultures, nutritional needs and consumer behaviour.

2. Towards diverse, sustainable and circular food processing systems — improved processing/packaging, valorisation of by-products and side-streams, and compositions tailored to diverse consumer groups.

3. Importance of trust and transparency — identify leverage points; assess tools, methods, metrics, indicators and quality signals (e.g. labelling) towards a more unified framework, co-created with system actors.

Both Exploratory Research Projects (TRL 3–5) and Accelerating Innovation Projects (TRL 6–8) are eligible.

Key Dates (two-step procedure)

Applicant & consortium requirements (non-exhaustive)

• Minimum three partners from at least three different countries that are eligible for, and request, funding from organisations participating in this call.

• Guiding elements in evaluation: transformative perspective; inter- and transdisciplinarity; multi-stakeholder engagement; sustainability.

• Mandatory Impact Plan showing progress towards food-systems transformation.

• Proposals may be “research-oriented” or “innovation-oriented” (self-assignment).

Who can apply

Universities, research institutes, SMEs, large companies, NGOs, and public bodies, depending on national/regional eligibility rules.

Budget

A total of ~39 million EUR is available through a virtual common pot funded by participating countries and the European Union.

Submission Platform & Partner Search

Proposals must be submitted via:

A built-in partnering tool is available for organisations seeking consortium partners.