FOODITY Open Call #2

Personal data control and sovereignty

Apart from providing tailored mentoring services for scaling, technical support and sustainability (among other business needs areas), this programme offers up to €187,500 per beneficiary to scale their products and services.

FOODITY will develop their pilot development programme in three competitive phases. The first one will focus on implementing the pilot projects (9 months, €150K/selected team). The second one on maximising their impact (3 months, €30K/ selected team). The programme will end with an award ceremony where the winning pilot projects will benefit from an additional €7,500.

Pilots are able to request support in specific areas to ensure TRL advancement. Required TRL is 4 – 6 at the application stage with products/solutions scaling to 7 (ending TRL is ideal, not mandatory).

FOODITY is looking for entities with both technical and social innovation expertise, as well as knowledge of citizen engagement. Applicants submit proposals led by an SME/startup and partner with 2-3 entities that are a mixture of for-profit and non-profit organisations.

The following types of entities may apply as part of a consortium:
• SMEs including startups developing solutions for data-driven innovation in personalised nutrition, sustainable food systems and shopping experiences.
• Social innovation actors (SIA), which may be a non-profit organisation or company, providing new practices aiming at citizen empowerment and proposing concrete actions for data
sovereignty, as well as associations representing consumers’ interest in health and nutrition.
• Research and technology organisations (RTOs) and universities, working on advancing the state-of-the-art and solving the challenges around data driven innovation for health and nutrition and mechanisms to preserve citizens sovereignty of their personal data in using solutions for health and nutrition.
• Training organisations providing professional training for careers in the food industry, such as culinary or nutrition schools, interested in teaching and experimenting with the power of data for innovation and competitiveness in food production and diet planning.

Eligible consortia must be a multidisciplinary consortium of 2-3 entities, led by an SME (who will act as the consortium Coordinator). The 2nd and 3rd partner (if applicable) must be an SME (including start-ups), RTO, SIA or a training organisation, that must collectively show capacity for user engagement and social innovation.
• In the case of 2 partners, a second SME (or start-up) can participate if their main area of activity is social innovation and/or citizen engagement.
• In the case of 3 partners, a second partner may be an SME (or start-up), but must mandatorily also include an RTO, a SIA or a training organisation (three SMEs are not eligible).

Single legal entities established in any of the following countries are eligible to participate in the FOODITY – Open Call #2:
● The Member States (MS) of the European Union (EU), including their outermost regions.
● Oversea Countries and Territories (OCTs) linked to Member States.
● Horizon Europe associated countries.