FutureFoodS pre-announces the second co-funded call for transnational research projects. This call will support innovative, cross-disciplinary collaborations to advance more sustainable, resilient, and healthy food systems.
Preliminary call topics
Domestic food practices enhancing sustainable and healthy diets — systemic work at the household level covering food safety, cultures, nutritional needs and consumer behaviour.
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.
Trust and transparency in sustainable food systems — identify leverage points; assess tools, methods, metrics, indicators and quality signals (e.g. labelling) towards a more unified framework, co-created with system actors.
Who can apply?
Tertiary education institutions, research institutes, non-profit legal entities, enterprises (SMEs and large), and public bodies, subject to national/regional rules.
Key dates (indicative)
Call launch: Second half of November 2025
Pre-proposal deadline: End of January 2026
Full proposal deadline: Beginning of July 2026 (only by invitation)
Project start: November 2026 and March 2027
Please follow here for further information about the pre-announcement.
Details presented here may be subject to change before the opening of the call. Further information and updates can be found here.