EU Bodies and Agencies – Selection of hosting sites and fellows for EFSA’s European Food Risk Assessment Fellowship (EU-FORA) Programme – 2026

Objectives

• To select hosting sites for the training of one or more fellows for a period of 12 months; and to select fellows as proposed by their institutions of origin

Priorities

• Priority 1: disseminating best practices and improving methods of collecting and analysing scientific and technical data, particularly for the purposes of facilitating comparability and producing a Community-level summary
• Priority 2: preparing the harmonisation of risk assessment methods

Eligibility

• To be eligible, applicants must be on the list of competent organisations designated by the Member States in accordance with Article 36 of Regulation (EC) 178/2002 and Commission Regulation (EC) 2230/2004. (see the list here)

• A consortium composed of at least 2 entities, established in at least 2 different EU Member States, Norway or Iceland to the programme must be constituted

Additional information

• Initial duration of the action: minimum 3 months, no maximum prescribed
• Contact: EU-FORA@efsa.europa.eu

Useful

• Guidelines: Click here
• Other call documents: Click here
• Executive Agency website: Click here
• More information: Click here

• Total budget of the call: 825 000 euros
• Amount of the grant: 825 000 euros