🇫🇮 European partnership for a sustainable Future of Food Systems funding call 2025

The call for applications for funding related to the European partnership for a sustainable Future of Food Systems (FutureFoodS) partnership programme for 2025 is open. The main objective of the partnership programme is to build a sustainable food system in Europe by 2050. FutureFoodS is a European Partnerships programme funded by the Horizon Europe programme. FutureFoods’ goal is to make Europe’s food production and consumption more sustainable and flexible, and the FutureFoodS partnership is one of eight co-funded partnerships launched by the European Commission under Horizon Europe’s Cluster 6 to promote the green and digital transitions.

The FutureFoodS partnership focuses on further processing, trade and food consumption. The vision of the FutureFoodS partnership is to jointly achieve environmentally friendly, socially safe and fair, economically viable, healthy and safe food systems in Europe by 2050. The themes of the programme cover a wide range of the complex challenges facing our food systems, such as climate change, biodiversity loss and food security.

The impact of the FutureFoodS partnership is created by combining different activities, such as case studies, research, innovation, policy and education, with joint international research and innovation proposals (R&I) with four themes:
1) Change the way we eat;
2) Change the way we process and supply food;
3) Change the way we connect with food systems;
4) Change the way we govern food systems.

Applications for the co-funded call are conducted as a two-step procedure. The first phase, letters of intent, opened on 3 December 2025 and must be submitted by 11 February 2026, 13:00 CET. Only parties invited to proceed on the basis of a letter of intent can participate in the second phase and submit actual funding applications by 27 July 2026, 13:00 CEST. Projects must be international, interdisciplinary and cross-sectoral, with applicants from at least three countries in one consortium.

Finnish parties can apply for funding from the Finnish Innovation Funding Agency Business Finland or the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry to participate in a joint European project. Business Finland is prepared to fund the participation of Finnish parties in joint projects with approximately €2 million in the 2025 call. Projects to be financed must create conditions for strengthening international competitiveness, renewal and significant new export business.

Originally published on 5 December 2025 by Business Finland.

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