Accelerating Food Sustainability – through Household Dietary Shifts, Trust and Transparency, and Innovations in Circular Food Processing Systems
The main objective of the partnership programme is to build a sustainable food system in Europe by 2050.
The call for applications for Second Joint Transnational Co-funded Call from the European partnership FutureFoodS is open, and invites researchers and innovators to submit project proposals that accelerate the transition towards more sustainable food systems.
FutureFoodS is a European Partnerships programme funded by the Horizon Europe programme. FutureFoods’ goal is to make Europe’s food production and consumption more sustainable and flexible. The FutureFoodS partnership is one of eight co-funded partnerships launched by the Commission under Horizon Europe’s Cluster 6 to promote the green and digital transitions.
The Call Topics: Accelerating Food Sustainability
This call focuses on three crucial areas essential for achieving food sustainability:
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Domestic food practices for enhancing sustainable and healthy diets — systemic work at the household level covering food safety, cultures, nutritional needs and consumer behaviour.
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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.
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Importance of trust and transparency — identify leverage points; assess tools, methods, metrics, indicators and quality signals (e.g. labelling) towards a more unified framework, co-created with system actors.
Both Exploratory Research Projects (TRL 3–5) and Accelerating Innovation Projects (TRL 6–8) are eligible.
Call procedures
The co-funded call is conducted as a two-step-procedure:
- STEP Pre-proposal phase
- STEP Full-Proposal phase
Deadline for pre-proposals is 11th of February 2026, 13:00:00 CET
Deadline for full-proposals is 27th of July 2026, 13:00:00 CEST (only by invitation)