Deadline: 13-Apr-23
Applications for EIT Food’s Open Innovation Call 2023 are now open!
If you’ve got an innovative project that will create positive change in the food system, they want to help. They’re looking for projects that will put new products on the market, introduce new and improved commercial processes and services, and achieve:
- Healthier Lives Through Food
- A Net Zero Food System
- A Fully Transparent, Fair and Resilient Food System
Focus Areas
- Circular Food Systems
- Sustainable Agriculture
- Protein Diversification
- Targeted Nutrition
- Digital Traceability
Funding Information
- 20 million EUR, of which at least 5 M to be attributed for the second submission deadline.
- Up to 600.000 EUR per Activity for 12 months.
- Up to 1,2 million EUR per Activity over a maximum of 24 months.
Eligible Activities
- They want to fund innovative Activities. For them, that means proving, testing and applying results from research and practice to solve significant, real-world problems related to the food system.
- All projects must end up with products or services tested (where necessary) and ultimately launched on the market.
- They’re able to be flexible in what they fund. For example, on top of traditional near-market R&D projects, they can provide funding to:
- Existing research project teams who have a commercialisation plan that needs follow-on funding to get to market (these don’t have to be previous EIT Food projects – they can support projects from other EIT organisations, EU programmes, national and NGO schemes)
- Develop new applications for existing technology – transferring proven technology from other sectors into the food industry
- Run proof of concept Activities for products or services with high impact potential
- Run market demonstration and scale-up Activities for high impact technology or services which already have promising results
- Expand existing innovative programmes leading to behaviour change or better consumer outcomes
- Develop (or expand existing) technology platforms and testbed services that offer new innovation capabilities to start-ups and SMEs new innovation capabilities to start-ups and SMEs
- Co-fund innovation competitions with existing funding schemes or organisations.
Eligibility Criteria
- Legal Entities from EU Member States or states associated to Horizon Europe.
- Participants from Member States (MS) of the European Union (EU) and Horizon Europe Associate Countries are welcome to submit proposals. In an exceptional case, an entity not coming from the EU or the Third countries (not associated to Horizon Europe) can be awarded financial support, if approved directly by the EIT.
- Each consortium member must:
- Be a legally incorporated entity in the EU or Horizon Europe eligible country, which has been incorporated for a minimum of 3 years
- Have at least 3 years’ published accounts showing business Activity. Note: EIT food will limit the grant value to 50% of turnover, based on the average turnover of the previous 3 years
- Have at least two statutory officers, such as registered directors. One-person legal entities are not eligible to participate in this call
For more information, visit https://www.eitfood.eu/projects/call-for-proposals-2023
