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.
Proposals under this project will support R&I which will upgrade transparency will provide multiple benefits relevant to improving food safety, fighting food fraud and addressing growing public concern in the EU as regards the climate, biodiversity and environmental impacts of food and diets in practice.
Proposals should accelerate the deployment of transparency solutions in EU food systems to boost health, sustainability and safety of products, processes and diets in the period to 2030.
Objectives:
Proposals should create an inventory of validated technologies (such as IoT, blockchain, artificial intelligence, 5G/edge, and ‘big data’), open data, approaches and methodologies based on past research and emerging best practice. Also, they should develop methodologies, tools and approaches to enable the clients of the network of expertise to engage actively with end-users of transparency solutions (e.g. retailers, public authorities).
Proposals should build a network of expertise that can act as an EU hub for knowledge sharing and the demonstration and piloting of systemic solutions relating to transparency. The network should be governed by primary producers, processors, retailers, food service providers, consumers, public and private institutions (governmental institutions, civil society, including NGOs, and industry), investors, entrepreneurs and policymakers. The pilots should advance solutions that can benefit a wide range of micro-enterprises and SMEs.
70%
EU contribution per project: €11,00 million
Beneficiaries may provide financial support to third parties which can be supported to third parties can only be provided in the form of grants.
The maximum amount to be granted to each third party is €300000 in order to cover the expenses for developing and piloting crosscutting and systemic solutions that improve transparency with regards to one or several of the six objectives mentioned in the topic.
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Dr Angelos Ntantos
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Dr Ioannis Theodorou
Scientific Officer
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(Publish Date: 26/08/2021-for internal use only)