Deadline: 29 February 2016
Agropolis Fondation together with Fondazione Cariplo and Fondation Daniel et Nina Carasso is currently inviting applications for its “Thought for Food Initiative: Transdisciplinary research towards more sustainable food systems”. The Call aims to:
- Advance understanding of the sustainability of food systems and explore innovative solutions that could help actors involved to achieve it.
- Facilitate the emergence of excellent, new and high-impact research activities.
- Generate a leverage effect that encourages new collaboration between different types of disciplines with a specific focus on combining natural and social sciences, and that are inclusive of diverse stakeholders.
Thematic Research
- Diverse agricultural production for more sustainable food systems and diets.
- Sustainable food processing for more sustainable and healthy diets.
Project Budget & Duration
Over-all budget of €2M is available for a small number of research projects jointly performed by researchers and their partners. Funding request for each project should be for a minimum of €200K over three years.
Eligibility Criteria
- To be eligible, a proposal must meet the following criteria:
- Involve at least one research partner as part of the consortium submitting the proposal. The proposal should clearly identify the Project and the Scientific Leader, if different from the former. A single proponent may submit a proposal provided that it is from a research organization.
- Focus on either of the two (or both) thematic strands of the Call;
- Involve various disciplines combining natural and social sciences;
- Address several dimensions of sustainability (environment, economic, social, cultural, nutritional/health);
- Tackle various aspects of the food systems defined as referring to all processes, actors, institutions and interactions involved in feeding a population; and which include the required inputs and generated outputs, activities and services with both their positive and negative impacts along the different stages of the value chain.
- Make publicly available project results and outputs to ensure that food systems stakeholders have access to it.
- Eligibility is not subjected to any geographical limitation. A particular but not exclusive interest shall be accorded, to the extent possible, to projects which are led or co-led by researchers from Agropolis Fondation’s scientific network7 and/or Fondazione Cariplo’s reference area.
- Research projects must involve partners from concerned countries, especially if they involve developing country case studies.
- For-profit-organizations may be involved as associated partners but are neither eligible to receive funding nor to share intellectual property rights related to any output of the projects funded under this Call. They are, however, encouraged to provide funding towards the implementation of the project.
How to Apply
Applicants must submit a Concept Note (CN) for review through the website.
For more information, please visit Food initiative Programme.
