European partnership on sustainable food systems for people, planet and climate
Fair, healthy and environmentally-friendly food systems from primary production to consumption · HORIZON-COFUND · Needs partners
What this call funds
This call funds a long term European partnership that pools national and EU research funding to transform food systems so they are safe, sustainable, healthy and fair. It will run joint calls, build a knowledge hub, and give grants to third parties for research and innovation projects on food, climate and sustainability. The partnership is expected to run for seven to ten years with a total indicative budget of 175 million euros.
food systems · bioeconomy · circular economy · agriculture agritech · aquaculture fisheries · climate adaptation
Who wins this
This suits a large consortium of national and regional research funding organisations that want to jointly coordinate and co fund transnational food systems research and innovation programmes across Europe.
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The call in detail
- Indicative grant size
- €45M
- Funding model
- Budget-based. Reimbursement of actual eligible costs
- Submission
- Single-stage submission (full proposal at once)
- Cut-off dates (2)
- 13 Jan 2027 · 30 Jun 2027
- Partners
- Required. The call asks for a consortium: a group applying together, typically 3+ organisations from 3+ countries.
- Eligible applicants
- public body, research organisation
- Funding rate
- 30% of eligible costs
- Support to third parties
- Beneficiaries may provide grants to third parties, with a maximum of EUR 10,000,000 per third party for the whole duration of Horizon Europe, and the usual EUR 60,000 threshold does not apply.
- Also required
- Proposals must apply the multi actor approach and pool financial resources from participating national or regional research programmes to implement joint transnational calls.
- Sectors
- AgriTech · Circular Economy
- Eligible countries (45)
- Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Norway, Iceland, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Israel, Türkiye, Ukraine, Serbia, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Georgia, Armenia, Moldova, Tunisia, New Zealand
Read the full conditions from the official call ›
General conditions General conditions 1. Admissibility conditions: described in Annex A and Annex E of the Horizon Europe Work Programme General Annexes Proposal page limits and layout: described in Part B of the Application Form available in the Submission System 2. Eligible countries: described in Annex B of the Work Programme General Annexes A number of non-EU/non-Associated Countries that are not automatically eligible for funding have made specific provisions for making funding available for their participants in Horizon Europe projects. See the information in the Horizon Europe Programme Guide. The following additional eligibility criteria apply: the proposals must apply the multi-actor approach. See definition of the multi-actor approach in the introduction to this work programme part. 3. Other eligibility conditions: described in Annex B of the Work Programme General Annexes 4. Financial and operational capacity and exclusion: described in Annex C of the Work Programme General Annexes Award criteria, scoring and thresholds are described in Annex D of the Work Programme General Annexes Submission and evaluation processes are described in Annex F of the Work Programme General Annexes and the Online Manual Indicative timeline for evaluation and grant agreement: described in Annex F of the Work Programme General Annexes The funding rate is 30% of the eligible costs. Beneficiaries may provide financial support to third parties. The support to third parties can only be provided in the form of grants. As financial support provided by the participants to third parties is one of the primary activities of the action in order to be able to achieve its objectives, the EUR 60 000 EUR threshold provided for in Article 204(a) of the Financial Regulation No 2018/1046 does not apply. The maximum amount to be granted to each third party is EUR 10 000 000 for the whole duration of Horizon Europe. 6. Legal and financial set-up of the grants: described in Annex G of the Work Programme General Annexes Specific conditions 7. Specific conditions: described in the specific topic of the Work Programme
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