FutureFoodS, the European partnership for a sustainable Future of Food Systems, has announced the publication of the 2nd co-funded call for transnational research projects
First publication date: 08/10/2025
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.
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