Other EU Projects
Some projects have links to CORDIS, which is the European Commission database for EU financed projects.
You can find many EU projects from Horizon Europe and earlier, there.
Agroecology Project Pack
Agroecology: Transitioning toward sustainable, climate and ecosystem-friendly farming and food systems
Farming in Europe has been transformed over the last 70 years by policies, technologies and practices that sought to guarantee a stable supply of affordable food. But success has come at the cost of mounting environmental degradation. This CORDIS Results Pack highlights 11 EU-funded research projects that demonstrate the potential of more sustainable alternatives.
AE4EU
Agroecology for Europe
AE4EU is a three years project, that started in January 2021 and aims to enable a successful transition to agroecology through a strong development with ambitious and longer-term joint actions at the European level in research, innovation, networks, training and education.
agroBRIDGES
Building bridges between producers and consumers
Enable the implementation of new SFSCs business models that address producers, consumers, and agri-food industry needs. The project will empower farmers with practical knowledge and support to rebalance their market position through new and sustainable business models based on Short Food Supply Chains (SFSCs).
BIOFRUITNET
Boosting Innovation in ORGANIC FRUIT production through stronger networks
The BIOFRUITNET project has produced a multitude of materials with the aim of bringing scientific knowledge to growers and advisors, to help them improve the management of their organic fruit orchards and make them stronger to face the threats in the sector.
ALL-Ready
ALL-Ready The European Agroecology Living Lab and Research Infrastructure Network: Preparation phase
ALL-Ready aims to prepare a framework for a future European network of Living Labs (LL) and Research Infrastructures (IR) that will enable the transition towards agroecology throughout Europe.
BEATLES
Behavioural change towards climate-smart agriculture
BEATLES aspires to identify the individual, systemic and policy lock-ins and levers that influence entire food systems behavioural change and to develop transformation pathways of change to accelerate the systemic and systematic transition to climate-smart agriculture and smart farming technologies, fully aligned with the ambitions of the Farm to Fork and Biodiversity Strategies, and the new CAP at regional and EU levels.
BRESOV
Breeding for Resilient, Efficient and Sustainable Organic Vegetable production
BRESOV aims to tackle the nutritional challenges of a growing world population and changing climatic conditions by enhancing productivity of different vegetable crops in an organic and sustainable farming infrastructure.
Chorizo
Changing practices and Habits through Open, Responsible, and social Innovation towards ZerΟ fοod waste
CHORIZO is a project co-funded by Horizon Europe programme that aims to improve the understanding between social norms, consumer behaviours and economic...
Circles
Controlling mIcRobiomes CircuLations for bEtter food Systems
CIRCLES will provide the scientific knowledge to exploit natural microbiomes for the sustainable production of high-quality food, with the ultimate objective to deliver new and healthier food applications.
Cities 2030
Cities2030 fosters the participation of citizens via moving consumers from being passive recipients to active engagement and motivated change agents
The main goal of Cities2030 is to create a future-proof sustainable Urban food systems and ecosystems (CRFS) via a connected structure centered in the citizen, built on trust, with partners encompassing the entire CRFS value chain.
CITYFOOD
Feeding rapidly growing urban populations requires innovative solutions that ensure efficient water, energy, and nutrients management.
CITYFOOD investigates quasi-closed loop integrated aqua-agriculture (IAAC) systems to address this global challenge. IAAC systems produce fish and plants, while re-using the fish water as fertiliser in nearly emission-free facilities
Cleverfood
Connected Labs for Empowering Versatile Engagement in Radical Food system transformation
CLEVERFOOD will facilitate a society-wide mobilisation of European citizens, including children and youth, farmers, entrepreneurs, investors, researchers, educators, knowledge brokers and policy makers to transform the European food system in alignment with the EU Food 2030 Policy Framework, Farm to Fork Strategy and Fit for 55 Package.
Clickfood
Click... und satt
Professional app, website and software solutions for restaurants or delivery services to increase sales by reaching customers more effectively with an individual and customized app and website. It offers a customer support team to help with the implementation and use of the new service.
COACH
Collaborative Agri-food Chains: Driving Innovation in Territorial Food Systems and Improving Outcomes for Producers and Consumers
COACH is a 3-year EU funded project focusing on collaborative agri-food initiatives anchored in territorial food systems. The project aims to facilitate collaboration between farmers, consumers, local governments and other actors to scale up short agri-food chains...
CODECS
Maximising the CO-benefits of agricultural Digitalisation through conducive digital ECoSystems
CODECS will co-develop, together with farmers and AKIS actors, user-friendly approaches, methods, and tools able to document the co-benefits and the costs of technologies applied to real contexts.
CoDiet
Combatting diet-related non-communicable disease through enhanced surveillance
CoDiet is an international research project that aims to combat diet-related diseases through innovative monitoring technologies and personalised nutrition. Unhealthy diets are associated with changes in the body that increase our risk of common diseases such as heart disease, diabetes and obesity.
COEVOLVERS
Coevolutionary approach to unlock the transformative potential of nature-based solutions for more inclusive and resilient communities
We are exploring how nature-based solutions (NBS) can contribute to the societal change needed to address the ongoing biodiversity and climate crisis. We are working on co-designing fair NBS governance techniques, models, and practices that are fair for humans (especially for vulnerable people) and non-humans.
CO-FRESH
Working together to create sustainable and competitive European value chains for fruit and vegetables, including high protein yields
Covering the entire spectrum from farm to fork, Europe’s agri-food systems are evolving and embracing more innovative approaches to increase productivity and sustainability. Therefore, redefining the agri-food value chains is key.
Contracts2.0
Co-design of novel contract models for innovative agri-environmental-climate measures and for valorisation of environmental public goods
The main objective of Contracts2.0 is to develop novel contract-based approaches to incentivise farmers for the increased provision of environmental public goods.
CORE Organic
Coordination of European Transnational Research in Organic Food and Farming Systems Cofund
CORE Organic is an ERA-NET - a network of European ministries and research councils funding research in organic food systems at national levels.
COREnet
Connecting advisors toward a European Network for consumer-producer chains
The EU’s Farm to Fork Strategy (F2F) and EU Green Deal look to SFSCs as an opportunity to rebuild a fairer, more resilient, sustainable and food-secure economy with family farming, small-scale food processing, agroecology and locally produced food for local markets.
STREFOWA
Strategies to Reduce Food Waste in Central Europe
Project aimed to develop new strategies to prevent food waste. The main objective of the project was to improve food waste management (prevention and utilisation) in selected cities in Central Europe and thereby contribute to the prevention of negative environmental impacts.
EUFIC
European Food Information Council/Food facts for healthy choices
EUFIC, is a consumer-oriented non-profit organisation, founded to make the science behind food and health more accessible and easier to understand among the public.
COACH
Collaborative Agri-food Chains: Driving Innovation in Territorial Food Systems and Improving Outcomes for Producers and Consumers
COACH is a 3-year EU funded project focusing on collaborative agri-food initiatives anchored in territorial food systems.
FEAST
Food systems that support transitions to hEalthy And Sustainable dieTs
FEAST aims to advance the state of the art by leveraging current best practice and co-designing novel solutions throughout Europe with food system stakeholders, including diverse vulnerable groups...
DIVERSIFOOD
Embedding crop diversity and networking for local high quality food systems
DIVERSIFOOD is an international project funded under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Programme. By integrating existing networks across Europe, the project will strengthen the “food culture” to achieve local high quality food systems.
ZEROW
Systemic Innovations Towards a Zero Food Waste Supply Chain
ZeroW is a €12 million EU project about systemic innovations for zero food waste, funded under the Green Deal call of the Horizon Programme 2020.
Strength2Food
Strengthening European Food Chain Sustainability by Quality and Procurement Policy
Strength2Food will identify and implement strategies for upscaling: creating new and expanding existing markets for quality food products and fostering the development of an ‘economy of quality’.
NextFood
Educating the next generation of professionals in the agrifood system
The aim of the Nextfood Toolbox is to support teaching practitioners in implementing action-based education. The Nextfood approach is a response to the need for education that enables us to deal with complex sustainability challenges.
Circles
Controlling mIcRobiomes CircuLations for bEtter food Systems
CIRCLES will provide the scientific knowledge to exploit natural microbiomes for the sustainable production of high-quality food, with the ultimate objective to deliver new and healthier food applications.
FoodChains4EU
Strengthening regional innovation policies to build sustainable food chains
FoodChains 4 Europe will focus on innovation that contributes to the environmental sustainability of the food chain whilst contributing to social sustainability through increased access to high quality food.
CLEVERFOOD
Connected Labs for Empowering Versatile Engagement in Radical Food system transformation
CLEVERFOOD will facilitate a society-wide mobilisation of European citizens, including children and youth, farmers, entrepreneurs, investors, researchers, educators, knowledge brokers and policy makers to transform the European food system in alignment with the EU Food 2030 Policy Framework, Farm to Fork Strategy and Fit for 55 Package.
SISTERS
Systemic Innovations for a SusTainable reduction of the EuRopean food waStage
The SISTERS project aims to reduce food loss and waste in the main stages of the Food Value Chain in Europe through innovations targeted to each stage of the chain...
LOWINFOOD
Multi-actor design of low-waste food value chains through the demonstration of innovative solutions to reduce food loss and waste
Efforts to tackle food waste are being and must be done at each stage of the food supply chain.
TITAN
Transparency solutions for transforming the food system
TITAN is an EU-funded project that will demonstrate the latest transparency-related solutions to help drive the formation of a demand-driven European economy predicted on the production and consumption of healthy, sustainable, and affordable food.
InnoFoodAfrica
Locally-driven co-development of plant-based value chains towards more sustainable African food system with healthier diets and export potential
InnoFoodAfrica will explore climate-smart African crops in Ethiopia, Kenya, South Africa and Uganda.
Food Wave
Empowering Urban Youth for Climate Action
Food Wave is co-funded by the EU and promoted by the Municipality of Milan together with 29 partners across 17 countries.
DRIFT-FOOD
Advanced technologies for high quality, safe and sustainable regional food production
The first main aim of the project is to establish a state-of-the-art research centre of advanced technologies for high quality, safe and sustainable regional food production.
FOODPathS
Co-creating the prototype 'Sustainable FOOD Systems PArTnersHip'
FOODPathS is a project that aims to offer a concrete pathway and necessary tools for establishing an appropriate operational environment for the future European Partnership for Sustainable Food Systems (SFS) for People, Planet & Climate.
Life Foster
Training, education and communication to reduce food waste in the food service industry
Co-financed by the EU Commission LIFE Programme and led by the Italian network for VET, ENAIP NET, the LIFE FOSTER project aims at reducing waste in the restaurant industry.
HoloFood
Holistic solution to improve animal food production through deconstructing the biomolecular interactions between feed, gut microorganisms and animals in relation to performance parameters/Hologenomics for sustainable food production
HoloFood was a 'hologenomic' approach that helped to improve the efficiency of food production systems by understanding the biomolecular and physiological processes affected by incorporating feed additives and novel sustainable feeds in farmed animals.
ECO
Empowering consumer organisations to tackle dual food quality
The ECO project aims at limiting dual quality practices in food and strengthening consumer organisations in the EU and intends to strengthen the capacity of consumer organizations to test food products for dual quality...
Enough
European food chain supply to reduce GHG emissions by 2050
The ENOUGH project has set objectives to address and reduce the emissions of the food sector. Food systems are globally responsible for between 20 to 40 % of total greenhouse gas emissions.
TCC Food Safety Project
Online Platform on EU Food Safety
The project strives to support faster social and institutional development of the Turkish Cypriot community (TCc) and higher economic growth of its agri-food chain sector.
European Food Banks federation
To contribute to reducing food insecurity mainly through the prevention of food loss and the support and development of Food Banks in countries where they are most needed.
The European Food Banks Federation (FEBA) works in collaboration with 24 Full Members and 6 Associate Members in 30 European countries.
Fairfood
FAIRFOOD for a smart life
The purpose of FairFood for a Smart Life project is to contribute to the improvement of health through a nutritional education inspired by the way our ancestors ate, with natural products, typical of the territory, treated in a simple way and consumed in its season...
SWEET
Sweeteners and sweetness enhancers: Impact on health, obesity, safety and sustainability
SWEET, a European Commission Horizon 2020 funded project, is supported by a consortium of 29 pan-European research, consumer and industry partners, who will develop and review evidence on long term benefits and potential risks...
Chorizo
Changing practices and Habits through Open, Responsible, and social Innovation towards ZerΟ fοod waste
CHORIZO is a project co-funded by Horizon Europe programme that aims to improve the understanding between social norms, consumer behaviours and economic...
CITYFOOD
Feeding rapidly growing urban populations requires innovative solutions that ensure efficient water, energy, and nutrients management.
CITYFOOD investigates quasi-closed loop integrated aqua-agriculture (IAAC) systems to address this global challenge.IAAC systems produce fish and plants, while re-using the fish water as fertiliser in nearly emission-free facilities.
URBACT
Food and sustainable local systems
The URBACT Knowledge Hub brings together good practices from across the EU, with the latest urban trends, to fill the gaps and make sure that the learning is within everyone's reach. URBACT has supported many working on topics linked to sustainable food and urban agriculture and pulled together their insights to help others take action –some good food for thought!
PLANEAT
Food systems transformation towards healthy and sustainable dietary behaviour
PLAN’EAT is an applied research project that aims to:
– better understand how environmental, social, cultural and individual factors affect people’s food choices
– co-design interventions to effectively reverse trends in dietary behaviour
Clickfood
A provider of high-quality systems for Restaurants & Entertainment
Professional app, website and software solutions for restaurants or delivery services to increase sales by reaching customers more effectively with an individual and customized app and website.
Plant Health Project Pack
Plant health: Keeping plants healthy while protecting the environment
Plants are at the centre of life itself. They are a primary source of food for us, as well as for the animals we eat. They help regulate the climate and are a part of the natural environment in which we live
Agroecology Project Pack
Agroecology: Transitioning toward sustainable, climate and ecosystem-friendly farming and food systems
Farming in Europe has been transformed over the last 70 years by policies, technologies and practices that sought to guarantee a stable supply of affordable food.
Legumes translated
Translating knowledge for legume-based farming for feed and food systems
Supporting the production and use of grain legumes. Research is providing the data needed to help Europe transition towards more sustainable plant protein production.
FoodSafety4EU
FOODSAFETY4EU - multi-stakeholder platform for food safety in Europe
FoodSafety4EU is a collaborative action to support the European Commission (EC) in shaping the Food Safety System of the future. During 3 years life, the project is delivering solutions to support the EC in its endeavour in aligning research, policy and innovation with the societal needs and perspectives and improving food safety across Europe.
BIOFRUITNET
Boosting Innovation in ORGANIC FRUIT production through stronger networks
The BIOFRUITNET project has produced a multitude of materials with the aim of bringing scientific knowledge to growers and advisors, to help them improve...
BRESOV
Breeding for Resilient, Efficient and Sustainable Organic Vegetable production
BRESOV aims to tackle the nutritional challenges of a growing world population and changing climatic conditions by enhancing productivity of different vegetable crops in an organic and sustainable farming infrastructure.
COSOLE
CONtract SOLutions for Effective and lasting delivery of agri-environmental-climate public goods by EU agriculture and forestry
CONSOLE project, focuses on promoting the delivery of Agri-Environmental Climate Public Goods (AECPGs) by agriculture and forestry through...
Contracts2.0
Co-design of novel contract models for innovative agri-environmental-climate measures and for valorisation of environmental public goods
The main objective of Contracts2.0 is to develop novel contract-based approaches to incentivise farmers for the increased provision of environmental public goods.
CORE Organic
Coordination of European Transnational Research in Organic Food and Farming Systems Cofund
CORE Organic is an ERA-NET - a network of European ministries and research councils funding research in organic food systems at national levels.
DiverIMPACTS
Diversification through Rotation, Intercropping, Multiple cropping, Promoted with Actors and value-Chains Towards Sustainability
The overall goal of DiverIMPACTS - Diversification through Rotation, Intercropping, Multiple Cropping, Promoted with Actors and value-Chains towards Sustainability...
EUCLEG
Breeding forage and grain legumes to increase EU's and China's protein self-sufficiency
EUCLEG aimed at providing tools and knowledge to improve the genetic progress in five major legume species: two forages, alfalfa and red clover...
RELACS
Replacement of Contentious Inputs in organic farming Systems
RELACS will foster the development and facilitate the adoption of cost-efficient and environmentally safe tools and technologies...
ALL-Ready
The European Agroecology Living Lab and Research Infrastructure Network: Preparation phase
ALL-Ready aims to prepare a framework for a future European network of Living Labs (LL) and Research Infrastructures (IR) that will enable the transition towards...
ECOBREED
Increasing the efficiency and competitiveness of organic crop breeding
ECOBREED will improve the availability of seed and varieties suitable for organic and low- input production.
VALPRO Path
New VALue landscapes for plant PROtein Pathways
As the European Union heavily depends on imported plant protein for food and livestock feed, the VALPRO Path project recognizes the urgency to build a self-sustainable Europe. With a focus on harnessing plant protein production, this transformative initiative aims to facilitate a seamless transition from traditional practices to innovative approaches.
SOLO
Soils for Europe
SOLO identifies current knowledge gaps, drivers, bottlenecks, and novel research and innovation approaches to be considered in the European Soil Mission research and innovation roadmap. The project aims to create a knowledge hub for...
Tools4CAP
Innovative Toolbox empowering effective CAP governance towards EU ambitions
Tools4CAP is a Coordination and Support Action in Horizon Europe (2023-2026). The project aims to support the design and monitoring of the national Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) Strategic Plans...
K4P
Knowledge for Policy / We mobilise people and resources to create, curate, make sense of and use knowledge to inform policymaking across Europe
The EU Commission's Knowledge4Policy (K4P) platform supports evidence-based policymaking...
VALUMICS
Food Systems Dynamics
The overall objective of the VALUMICS project is to provide decision makers throughout food value chains with a comprehensive suite of approaches and tools that will enable them to evaluate the impact of strategic and operational policies to enhance the resilience, integrity and sustainability of food value chains for European countries.
TheFSM
The Food Safety Market: an SME-powered industrial data platform to boost the competitiveness of European food certification
The FSM aims to deliver an industrial data platform that will significantly boost the way that food certification takes place in Europe.
FoodSafeR
A joined-up approach to the identification, assessment and management of emerging food safety hazards and associated risks
The European Commission funded FoodSafeR project was launched in October 2022 and over the next 4 years will focus on the advancement...
DRG4Food
Empowering a fair and responsible European FoodRegister, fostering citizen sovereignty and creating a data-driven food system
DRG4FOOD is an EU project about achieving trust in a data-driven food system by implementing Digital Responsibility Goals (DRGs) for the food sector.
AE4EU
Agroecology for Europe
AE4EU is a three years project, that started in January 2021 and aims to enable a successful transition to agroecology through a strong development with ambitious and longer-term joint actions at the European level in research, innovation, networks, training and education.
EMPHASIS-PREP
Preparation for EMPHASIS: European Infrastructure for multi-scale Plant Phenomics and Simulation for food security in a changing climate
Sustainable food security and increased plant biomass availability pose a critical challenge in the coming decades.
FutureFoodS Partnership
European partnership for a sustainable Future of Food Systems
The Commission joins forces with 84 partners from 29 countries through the FutureFoodS Partnership to accelerate food systems transformation. The inaugural meeting of the FutureFoodS Partnership was held in Dijon on 19 June 2024.
FORENV
EU Foresight System for the Environment
FORENV is a collaborative process, implemented by members of the EKC, with the overall aim: To identify, characterise and assess emerging issues that may represent risks or opportunities to Europe’s environment, and to communicate these results to policy-makers and other stakeholders, encouraging appropriate and timely action to be taken.
agroBRIDGES
Building bridges between producers and consumers
Enable the implementation of new SFSCs business models that address producers, consumers, and agri-food industry needs. The project will empower farmers with practical knowledge and support to rebalance their market position through new and sustainable business models based on Short Food Supply Chains (SFSCs).
BEATLES
Behavioural change towards climate-smart agriculture
BEATLES aspires to identify the individual, systemic and policy lock-ins and levers that influence entire food systems behavioural change and to develop transformation pathways of change to accelerate the systemic and systematic transition to climate-smart agriculture and smart farming technologies, fully aligned with the ambitions of the Farm to Fork and Biodiversity Strategies, and the new CAP at regional and EU levels.
CO-FRESH
Working together to create sustainable and competitive European value chains for fruit and vegetables, including high protein yields
Covering the entire spectrum from farm to fork, Europe’s agri-food systems are evolving and embracing more innovative approaches to increase productivity and sustainability.
CODECS
Maximising the CO-benefits of agricultural Digitalisation through conducive digital ECoSystems
CODECS will co-develop, together with farmers and AKIS actors, user-friendly approaches, methods, and tools able to document the co-benefits and the costs of technologies applied to real contexts. In this way, it will improve the collective capacity to understand, assess and foresee the full range of benefits and costs of farm digitalisation, and to build digital ecosystems that maximise the net benefits of digitalisation.
CoDiet
Combatting diet-related non-communicable disease through enhanced surveillance
CoDiet is an international research project that aims to combat diet-related diseases through innovative monitoring technologies and personalised nutrition. Unhealthy diets are associated with changes in the body that increase our risk of common diseases such as heart disease, diabetes and obesity.
COEVOLVERS
Coevolutionary approach to unlock the transformative potential of nature-based solutions for more inclusive and resilient communities
We are exploring how nature-based solutions (NBS) can contribute to the societal change needed to address the ongoing biodiversity and climate crisis. We are working on co-designing fair NBS governance techniques, models, and practices that are fair for humans (especially for vulnerable people) and non-humans.
COREnet
Connecting advisors toward a European Network for consumer-producer chains
The EU’s Farm to Fork Strategy (F2F) and EU Green Deal look to SFSCs as an opportunity to rebuild a fairer, more resilient, sustainable and food-secure economy with family farming, small-scale food processing, agroecology and locally produced food for local markets. The Covid-19 pandemic prompted interest in developing new SFSC models based on IT-enabled solutions, social solidarity and a sharing economy in line with the ambitions of the F2F Strategy.
CULTIVATE
Co-designing food sharing innovation for resilience
In a world experiencing continuous and unexpected changes, urban and peri-urban (UPU) food systems are replete with inequities and inequalities that make them fragile and vulnerable to shocks. An urgent transition towards more just and sustainable food systems is required.
Many FSIs (Food Sharing Initiatives) already contribute towards this transition yet their activities are often hampered by complex, fragmented food governance, uncertain finance, and insecure tenure.
Data4Food
Pathways towards a fair, inclusive and innovative Data Economy for sustainable food systems
Data4Food2030 aims to improve the data economy for food systems by expanding its definition, mapping its development, performance and impact to create new insights and opportunities.
The project wants to specify the relevant concepts for ‘Data Economy’ in the agrifood sector and develop a tool to monitor the progress in developing data economy. The concepts and tools will be validated in 9 cases focused on data sharing in the value chain and network.
DigitAF
Digital tools to boost agroforestry
Combining trees with crops or livestock on the same land has the potential to mitigate climate change. As a resilient agricultural practice, agroforestry (AF) can sequester carbon, preserve biodiversity and contribute to food security by diversifying agricultural production. The EU-funded DIGITAF project will promote AF systems. Specifically, it will co-develop digital tools tailored to the needs and concerns of AF target groups, including policy actors, practitioners and actors involved in the AF value chain.
DOMINO
Harnessing the potential of fermentation for healthy and sustainable foods
DOMINO is a Horizon Europe funded research project aiming to attribute health benefits to traditional fermented foods, and to develop novel plant-based fermented foods which address the changing societal demands for healthier and more sustainable nourishment.
The project will last 5 years (2023-2028) and gathers 19 partners from 10 countries, in a collaboration between top universities and research centres, as well as expert non-profit organisations and the private sector.
ECO-READY
Achieving Ecological Resilient Dynamism for the European food system through consumer-driven policies, socio-ecological challenges, biodiversity, data-driven policy, sustainable futures
The ECO-READY project will develop a real-time surveillance system, an Observatory offered as an e-platform and as a mobile application. This will function as the necessary singular source of information, provide real-time assessments for the food system, and update forecasts frequently and consistently.
EdiCitNet
Edible Cities Network Integrating Edible City Solutions for social resilient and sustainably productive cities
The systemic use of urban landscapes for food production is a major step towards more sustainable, liveable and healthier cities. A multitude of initiatives around the World, however fragmented, are prospering, forming a global movement of Edible Cities.
ENFASYS
ENcouraging Farmers towards sustainable farming SYstems through policy and business Strategies
Today’s farmers find it difficult to deal with the several lock-ins within food systems that keep them from transitioning to sustainable farming systems. Policies, together with business models and social innovations, need to be strengthened to overcome lock-in challenges.
FAIRCHAIN
Innovative technological, organisational and social solutions for FAIRer dairy and fruit and vegetable value CHAINs
The EU-funded FAIRCHAIN project addresses the growing need for a significant transformation of current food systems by developing competitive intermediate food chain alternatives adapted to small and mid-sized actors.
FER-PLAY
Multi-assessment of alternative fertilisers for promoting local sustainable value chains and clean ecosystems / Circular fertilisers for healthy soils
FER-PLAY is a comprehensive approach to gather, harmonise, select and complement the knowledge on alternative fertiliser value chains and diffuse it to promote the wide-scale production and application of alternative fertilisers...
FLORA
Sustainable and healthy food solutions: system dynamics and trade-offs
Food systems are crucial to end hunger, but also to mitigate and adapt to climate change, to protect and restore biodiversity, to ensure human health and well-being, to end poverty, and to support sustainable communities. While hunger has receded, food systems are causing increasingly severe damage to our environment and health.
FNS-CLOUD
Food Nutrition Security Cloud
Food and nutrition security (FNS) is about ensuring that everybody can access sufficient, affordable and nutritious food. A big challenge that Europe faces is that a vast amount of FNS resources is fragmented. The main aim of the EU-funded FNS-Cloud project is to overcome fragmentation by federating FNS data on diet, health, and consumer behaviour as well as sustainable agriculture and the bio-economy.
FOLOU
Bringing knowledge and consensus to prevent and reduce Food Loss at the primary production stage. Understanding, measuring, training and adopting
The EU-funded FOLOU project aims to challenge the issue of food loss (FL) in primary production. It will set a forceful, coherent multidisciplinary approach to set up a mechanism allowing a change based on monitoring and measuring.
FoodCLIC
Integrated urban FOOD policies – developing sustainability Co-benefits, spatial Linkages, social Inclusion and sectoral Connections to transform food systems in city-regions / Connecting people food policy places
The EU-funded FoodCLIC project will create more sustainable urban food environments by building strong science–policy–practice interfaces...
FOODCoST
FOOD Costing and Internalisation of Externalities for System Transition / Redefining the value of food
FOODCoST aims to support the transition towards sustainable food systems by proposing a harmonising methodology to calculate externalities in climate, biodiversity, environmental, social and health along the food value chain.
FOODITY
FOod and nutritiOn Data-driven innovation respectful of citizen's Data SovereIgnTY / FOODITY puts the control of your food and nutrition data in your hands
FOODITY is an impact-driven project funded under the Horizon Europe programme involving 7 partners from 7 countries.
GenB
Informing and educating young people on more sustainable behaviours and choices to build a future Generation informed and interested in Bioeconomy / Young biovoices for a sustainable future
The EU-funded GenB project will involve several other EU projects and initiatives.
GIANT LEAPS
Gap resolutIon in sAfety, NuTritional, alLergenicity and Environmental assessments to promote Alternative Protein utilization and the dietary Shift / Reshaping nutrition across Europe
The EU-funded GIANT LEAPS project seeks to accelerate this dietary shift, which is in line with the farm-to-fork strategy and contributes to the EU Green Deal target that aims to improve the well-being and health of citizens...
GOLF
Integration of Global and Local Agri-Food Supply Chains towards Sustainable Food Security
The EC-Asia Research Network on Integration of Global and Local Agri-Food Supply Chains Towards Sustainable Food Security (GOLF) combines world-leading research, in cooperation with agri-food, logistics and retail stakeholders, to ensure secure sustainable, resilient and healthy food supplies for all.
HealthFerm
Innovative pulse and cereal-based food fermentations for human health and sustainable diets
HealthFerm is a European research project investigating innovative pulse and cereal-based food fermentations together with the health effects and consumer perception of novel fermented foods.
Hungry EcoCities
AI enabled artistic solutions for sustainable food systems / Towards a more healthy, sustainable, responsible and affordable agri-food system enabled by AI
Hungry EcoCities aims at exploring one of the most pressing challenges of our times: the need for a more healthy, sustainable, responsible, and affordable agri-food system for all.
InBestSoil
A closer look at investment in soil health
Europe’s soil is being irreversibly lost and degraded mainly due to natural factors such as climate change and human activities such as agriculture. While an investment in soils is necessary, soils can take decades to recover.
INCiTiS-FOOD
Integrated and Circular Technologies for Sustainable city region FOOD systems in Africa / African food innovations: partnering for a sustainable future
Started in January 2023, the EU-funded project INCiTiS-FOOD will focus on sustainable agri-food practices. It will address the pressing challenges of food and nutritional security, environmental pressures of food production, and the topic of environmental justice in several African countries, like Kenya, Ghana, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Cameroon, and Gabon.
LESTRA
Transactional investigations of learning in view of sustainability transitions
As sustainability challenges such as climate change represent ever-present dangers to all of us, we must find and implement fruitful pathways towards a more sustainable society.
PIMENTO
Promoting Innovation of ferMENTed fOods
Present in all European diets, fermented foods (FF) hold a strategic place due to the benefits they offer in terms of nutrition, sustainability, innovation, cultural heritage and consumer interest.
RESPONSE
Response - to society and policy needs through plant, food and energy sciences
The RESPONSE Doctoral Programme (DP) «RESPONSE – to society and policy needs through plant, food and energy sciences» is funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Grant Agreement No 847585.
RURALITIES
Climate smart, ecosystem-enhancing and knowledge-based rural expertise and training centres
RURALITIES aims at playing a structural role in contributing to the current Africa-EU partnership, which is designed to build on this historical relationship, and to create a framework for deeper dialogues between the two regions in a vast panoply of fields, such as rural development.
SecureFood
An integrated approach to enhance food systems resilience, advocating for food security and uninterrupted food supply / Taking a bite out of food insecurity
Rising global food insecurity is a significant threat, exacerbated by complex challenges in the intricate web of food systems.
ShapingBio
Shaping the future bioeconomy across sectoral, governmental and geographical levels
ShapingBio will promote innovation in the European bioeconomy across sectoral, governmental and geographical levels by providing evidence-based information and recommendations for better policy alignment as well as supporting and integrating stakeholders in the bio-based sectors.
Smart Protein
The next generation of smart protein food
Smart Protein is a €10 million, EU-funded project that seeks to develop the next generation of foods which are cost effective, resource efficient, and nutritious.
SWITCH
Switching European food systems for a just, healthy and sustainable dietary transition through knowledge and innovation
The transition to sustainable, safe, healthy and inclusive food systems is a key priority for EU policies, in line with UN sustainable development goals (SDGs).
TrustEat
Building a trusty future food system by using blockchain tech
Food safety risks occur along the food chain from a number of biological and chemical contaminants.
TRUSTyFOOD
Providing future scenarios and a roadmap for a wide agri-food blockchain implementation
The project’s main goal is to learn from existing experiences, understanding why communities (users) accept or reject blockchain-based projects, the mistakes made by others so as not to repeat them, the best and most innovative practices in blockchain development in different sectors to shape different possible futures for blockchain applications in the agrifood domain.
URBAG
Integrated System Analysis of Urban Vegetation and Agriculture
Urban and peri-urban agriculture is currently experiencing rapid growth. This covers a variety of forms, such as vertical farming, greenhouse rooftops, local foodsheds, which together with green spaces like parks and green roofs, are referred to as green infrastructure.
VISIONARY
Food Provision through Sustainable Farming Systems and Value Chains / making Europe’s food provision more sustainable
VISIONARY is a network of scientists, NGOs, and practitioners spread across Europe who have come together to steer Europe’s food system toward a more sustainable future.
WASTELESS
Waste Quantification Solutions to Limit Environmental Stress
The WASTELESS project will develop and test a mix of innovative tools and methodologies for Food Loss and Waste (FLW) measurement and monitoring, will recommend a harmonised methodological Framework for FLW quantification, and will develop a decision support systemic Toolbox targeting all food value chain stakeholders. Additionally, WASTELESS will carry on research activities concerning innovative processes and streams to valorise unavoidable FLW.
EU4ADVICE
The Network of Advisors in Short Food Supply Chains across Europe
The main objective of EU4Advice project is to settle the foundations and structures required to ensure effective capacity building of Short Food Supply Chains (SFSC) actors through fluent knowledge transfer.
SCAR
Standing Committee on Agricultural Research
The Green Deal has put Europe in a favourable position to be a ground breaker in the transition to sustainable agriculture, forestry, and food systems. European research and innovation (R&I) in these areas play a key role in accelerating the European Green Deal agenda.
RefrSCAR
Improved coordination of national and European bioeconomy research and innovation programmes in the ERA through strengthened SCAR Working Groups
The European Research Area (ERA) aims to build a common scientific and technological area for the EU.
FLABEL
Food labelling to advance better education for life
The work in FLABEL has been structured by a model of labelling effects. If label information is indeed available on food products, any effect on food choice is contingent on that consumers pay attention to the label and that they understand the label information.
SPICED
Securing the spices and herbs commodity chains in Europe against deliberate, accidental or natural biological and chemical contamination
SPICED principles: • Natural, accidental or intentional contaminations within the food chain are realistic events and have to be considered together, not individually...
Foodscale hub
Impact Venture Studio driving tech-enabled innovations in the agrifood sector
At Foodscale Hub we believe that by choosing the food we eat today, we decide what our world will look like in the future. Our commitment to building and improving scalable solutions, as well as creating disruptive business models that reshape the agrifood sector and have a positive impact on society is the essence of who we are.
EuBioNet
The European Bioeconomy Network
The European Bioeconomy Network (EuBioNet) is a proactive alliance of 160 EU funded projects and initiatives dealing with Bioeconomy promotion, communication and support. The main goal is to maximise the efforts, increasing the knowledge sharing, networking, mutual learning, coordination of joint activities and events.