Receive Funding for your Sustainable & Organic Food Systems Project

The ERA-NET Cofund instrument under Horizon 2020 is designed to support public-public partnerships between Member States (and associated countries) for the implementation and coordination of networking activities in different fields of research. The ERA-NET SUSFOOD2 and CORE Organic Cofunds (SF/CO) launch the Joint Call 2019 for transnational research project proposals based on the funding from participating countries of both networks and international partner countries. The joint network consists of 21 funding bodies from 18 countries/regions committing 9,585,000 € for transnational research.

This Joint Call initiative by SF/CO network was initiated under the premise that attaining food security and high quality nutrition standards for food in the future will require a transition from current linear food production systems, to sustainable, cyclical oriented systems that also respond to consumers demand for a diverse, healthy, safe and attractive diet. Such a future will have to be accompanied by substantial progress in the organisation and management of food systems and supported by the development of novel technologies. Innovation will therefore be key to support food systems transformation and for this to operate within natural resource boundaries and diminish climate change impact. In this regard, system approaches based on agroecological principles are gaining recognition as a pathway to enable sustainable intensification of food production and consumption, not only for organic food production, but also in the conventional sector.

The maximum budget is €1.5 million per research proposal.The call is open to research consortia comprised of a minimum of 3 independent legal entities from a minimum of 3 different SF/CO partner countries. A full list of eligible countries from the EU, Eastern Europe, and the MENA region is provided in the call document.