Creating smart and attractive tools to enhance healthy and sustainable food provision, eating and treating of food at home

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Programme Category

EU Competitive Programmes

Programme Name

Horizon Europe (2021-2027)

Programme Description

Horizon Europe is the European Union (EU) funding programme for the period 2021 – 2027, which targets the sectors of research and innovation. The programme’s budget is around € 95.5 billion, of which € 5.4 billion is from NextGenerationEU to stimulate recovery and strengthen the EU’s resilience in the future, and € 4.5 billion is additional aid.

Programme Details

Identifier Code

HORIZON-CL6-2024-FARM2FORK-01-5

Call

Creating smart and attractive tools to enhance healthy and sustainable food provision, eating and treating of food at home

Summary

The overall aim of this topic and associated R&I activities is to enhance healthy and sustainable diets aligned with national dietary advice by empowerment of citizens and their capacity to eat and cook at home in line with budgetary and time constraints as well as their living situation. Interventions should not target citizens directly, as full alignment with national policies and advice on nutrition and health needs to be ensured.

Detailed Call Description

Urban lifestyles have led to more consumption of ultra-processed and packaged food. Cooking skills may enhance healthy and sustainable diets, so supporting consumers provides potential. There are also indications, that social change might be enhanced by encouraging minorities to publicly challenge unsustainable norms during social interactions. This potential can be exploited to drive change in behaviour by citizen engagement.

Proposals are expected to address the following:

  • Develop tools and applications that enhance citizens to have a healthy and sustainable food provision, diet and treating of food at home/ or discourage unhealthy and unsustainable choices that can be considered by national policy makers and private actors;
  • Include in approaches ‘culinary culture dimension’ such as based on nationality, religion, culture, regionality and seasonality etc., and time and financial constraints;
  • Engage citizens in solutions to create inclusive and sustainable solutions for broad uptake;
  • Ensure that national nutritional policies and advice are respected as well as food safety;
  • Link solutions to the issue of food waste and to the need to reduce household wastes generally, notably plastics, as part of a circular economy to include all aspects of sustainability tools that can be considered by national policy makers for implementation;
  • Take a holistic approach, e.g., delivery (including prepared meals, micro deliveries, decentralised pick-up points) including transport and distribution aspects, short supply chains, marketing, sustainable packaging, recycling and reduction in food waste;
  • Develop a sample plan to make available to Member State and Associated Countries authorities for several countries on how to enhance uptake of beneficial tools and applications considering different socio-economic characteristics of citizens and national laws.

Call Total Budget

€6.00 million

Financing percentage by EU or other bodies / Level of Subsidy or Loan

70%

EU Contribution per project: €3.00 million

Thematic Categories

  • Environment and Climate Change
  • Health
  • New Entrepreneurship
  • Research, Technological Development and Innovation
  • Small-Medium Enterprises and Competitiveness

Eligibility for Participation

  • Central Government
  • Other Beneficiaries
  • Private Bodies
  • Researchers/Research Centers/Institutions
  • Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs)
  • State-owned Enterprises

Eligibility For Participation Notes

Proposals must implement the ‘multi-actor approach’ and ensure adequate involvement of among others health actors, such as nutritionists, doctors and nurses.

Proposal should apply social innovation and citizen engagement for inclusive and long-term solutions beyond the life cycle of the project and include a strong involvement of citizens/civil society, together with academia/research, industry/SMEs/start-ups and government/public authorities.

Call Opening Date

17/10/2023

Call Closing Date

22/02/2024

National Contact Point(s)

Research and Innovation Foundation

29a Andrea Michalakopoulou, 1075 Nicosia,
P.B. 23422, 1683 Nicosia
Telephone: +357 22205000
Fax: +357 22205001
Emailsupport@research.org.cy
Website: https://www.research.org.cy/en/

Contact Persons:
Marcia Trillidou
Scientific Officer A’
Email: trillidou@research.org.cy

Dr. Mary Economou
Scientific Officer
Emailmeconomou@research.org.cy

EU Contact Point

European Commission, Directorate-General for Research and Innovation

https://ec.europa.eu/info/departments/research-and-innovation_en#contact