Preliminary call topics

1. Domestic food practices enhancing sustainable and healthy diets — systemic work at the household level covering food safety, cultures, nutritional needs and consumer behaviour.
2. 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.
3. 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.

Applicant & consortium requirements (non-exhaustive)

• Minimum three partners from at least three different countries that are eligible for — and request — funding from organisations participating in this call.
• Guiding elements in evaluation: transformative perspective; inter- and transdisciplinarity; multi-stakeholder engagement; sustainability.
• Mandatory Impact Plan showing progress towards food-systems transformation.
• Proposals may be “research-oriented” or “innovation-oriented” (self-assignment).

Call launch: Second half of November 2025

Deadline for pre-proposal submission: ~ end of January 2026

Deadline for full-proposal submission: ~ beginning of July 2026 (only by invitation)

Start of projects: between November 2026 and March 2027

Call link: https://www.futurefoodspartnership.eu/news/pre-announcement

For more information, please contact the Office for International R+D: proyectoseuropeos@ehu.eus