Build the European food safety knowledge ecosystem, ensuring safe food as the basis for healthy diets and sustainable food systems.

The objective of this call is to identify and award a four-year Framework partnership agreement (FPA) to one or more competent organisations or consortia thereof that can provide capacity and expertise (chemistry, microbiology, biotechnology, food technology, nutrition, ADME, exposure and toxicology) that are relevant for the assessment of NF technical dossiers.

The present Call for proposals comes with a simplified grant management, where the grant amounts paid to the beneficiary are based on predefined sums that are not linked to the costs of the action. This means there is no need of co-financing from the beneficiary, and no need of estimated budget or timesheets to record the work.

This Call will result in one or more FPAs to be signed (up to three). This includes the following estimations:

• Novel Foods and Nutrient Sources dossier assessments, including drafting of sections contributing to the scientific opinions and assemblage of the draft opinions (€3.000.000).
• Centralised scientific coordination (€250.000).
• Centralised administrative coordination (€250.000).

• Research, Technological Development and Innovation

• International Organisations
• Legal Entities
• NGOs
• Non Profit Organisations
• Other Beneficiaries
• Researchers/Research Centers/Institutions
• Semi-governmental organisations
• State-owned Enterprises

Applicants must be included in the Article 36 list of eligible organisations. Applications made by consortium in which partners are not on the Article 36 list will be excluded. In this regard, the University of Thessaly, the University of Cyprus, the Cyprus University of Technology and the Czech University of Life Sciences Prague are included in the list.

The proposals can be submitted by one eligible organisation or by a consortium of eligible organisations. EFSA would prefer to sign the Framework Partnership Agreements with consortia, however organisations applying as such (i.e., not being part of any consortium) will not be excluded if all criteria are met.

Proposals submitted by consortium:

• the Applicant submits the proposal to EFSA on behalf of the consortium. The applicant is the leading entity of the consortium. There can be only one applicant in the proposal.
• The Partner is the other entity in the consortium. There can be a minimum of one partner or more partners.

If you are searching for consortium partners, please contact your Focal Point.

On the proposal submission deadline, both the applicant and any partners in the consortium must be listed as competent organizations. This designation must be in accordance with Article 36 of Regulation (EC) 178/2002 and Commission Regulation (EC) 2230/2004, as designated by the Member States;

For any further information or guidance, you can contact: EFSAProcurement@efsa.europa.eu.

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