Dec 17, 2025

EP FutureFoodS launches Call 2026: “Accelerating Food Sustainability“!

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

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

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.

Guiding elements in the evaluation are:

transformative perspective
inter- and transdisciplinarity
multi-stakeholder engagement
sustainability

Timeline and eligibility criteria:

11^th February 2026 – pre-proposal submission
27^th July 2026 – full-proposal submission
min 3 partners from 3 participating countries
BMLE and BMFTR funding
Max. 250,000 – 350,000 EUR German funding per project

Participating countries:

Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Norway, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, The Netherlands, Türkiye

Further information:

https://www.futurefoodspartnership.eu/news/second-joint-transnational-co-funded-call

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