FutureFoodS Call 2024: Transforming Food Systems - reshaping food system interactions, fostering food innovations and empowering sustainable food choices

The European Partnership for a sustainable Future of Food Systems (FutureFoodS) launches its 1st co-funded call for transnational research projects. This call for proposals is co-funded by the European Commission.

The objective of the FutureFoodS Partnership is to mobilise European research and innovation to accelerate the transition of food chains towards circular food systems, operating within the planet boundaries. This includes current types of production, processing, distribution and consumption. A wide range of stakeholders are joining forces to build sustainable, interconnected and territorialised European food systems by 2050. The first FutureFoodS call for proposal aims more specifically to tackle the complex challenges making current European food systems unsustainable requires mobilizing knowledge, actors and resources through a food systems approach. The European food systems research and innovation (R&I) community has an important role to play in promoting the design and realisation of a food systems approach involving relevant food system actors.

The guiding elements for FutureFoodS projects are:

• Transformative perspective
• Inter- and transdisciplinarity
• Multi-stakeholder engagement
• Sustainability

Each application submitted under this call should focus on one of the three call topics listed below. The topic chosen should be clearly indicated in the proposal:

1. The way towards sustainable and resilient food systems
    
2. New foods – Fostering innovations in food design, processing and supply via demand-and-supply reorientation
    
3. Empowering sustainable food choices – Enabling food environments and dietary shifts

The participating countries are: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Norway, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Sweden, The Netherlands and Turkey.

The Call Announcement highlights the aim, expected approach and topics of the call. It also details the countries/regions participating in funding the call, the eligibility criteria, submission, evaluation and selection procedures, and modalities for projects funding and reporting. Specific funding regulations apply depending on the funding organisations: each partner applying to the call must ensure that its contribution to the overall project conforms to these regulations.