EIT Food – Open call for proposals – 2022

Objectives

• Improvement in conditions for enhanced public trust in the food system;
• Better health outcomes from our diet;
• Improved environmental impact of Agri-Food systems;
• Enabling transition to a circular and sustainable economy.

Priorities

• Priority 1: Alternative proteins;
• Priority 2: Sustainable agriculture;
• Priority 3: Targeted nutrition;
• Priority 4: Sustainable aquaculture;
• Priority 5: Digital traceability;
• Priority 6: Circular food systems.

Among financed activities

• Translating or repurposing current technologies from outside food sector(s) to provide or enable solutions to major Focus Area challenges & system problems identified by EIT Food;
• Bringing knowledge and transparency to consumers through co-creation activities in order to foster enhanced trust in the food system;
• Activities which demonstrate and prove the potential for new solutions, innovations, technologies, or public interventions to deliver EIT Food’s Impact Goals and KPIs at significant scale;
• Proposals from other funding bodies to engage in joint funding of competitive challenges to identify game-changing solutions to problems related to EIT Food Impact Goals;
• Proposals to act as a “follow-on” accelerator funder to innovations already developed to a high TRL level through other funding, such as EU Horizon Europe programmes.

Additional information

• This call for proposals is an open call for proposals.
• Initial duration of the action: up to 24 months.

Eligibility

• Be a legally incorporated entity in the EU or Horizon Europe eligible country, which has been incorporated for a minimum of 2 years;
• Have at least 1 year’s published accounts showing business activity;
• Have at least two statutory officers such as registered directors;
• The consortium must be composed by at least 3 organisations from at least 2 different eligible countries representing at least two sides of the knowledge triangle;
• A Technology Readiness Level (TRL) 7 or above (TRL 6 must be completed and demonstrated).

• Amount of the grant: between 400,000 and 1.4 million euro
• Co-financing rate: between 60% and 85% of the total eligible costs