FOODITY Open Call #2 Apply now!
Do you have the next big digital idea to empower citizens to make healthier food choices and create more sustainable food systems?
Apply to our Open Call #2 for your chance to join our FOODITY programme, get funded up to €187.500, and receive training and support to develop your solution!
We are running a 1M€ pilot development programme for creating 6 data-driven solutions to drive innovation in food and nutrition while putting the power of personal data use back into the hands of citizens.
The FOODITY
open call #1
Are you ready to create innovative data-driven solutions that will play a role in developing sustainable food systems while
boosting citizen data sovereignty?
Apart from providing tailored mentoring services, technical support and business sustainability, our programme offers up
to €187,500 per team to scale their products and services.
We are accepting submissions for Open Call #2
Apply by 10 July 2024 (17.00 CET)!
The Open Call #2 offer
for the challenge?
launching on 8 May and closing on 10 July 2024
to be developed by the selected applicants
and financial support of up to €187.500 per beneficiary
with services for pilot development
The Open Call #2 themes
open call #1 offer
Our second open call will accept submissions to develop solutions focusing on one of the themes or an open challenge:
What to consider before submitting your application:
- The open call accepts proposals for solutions with a minimum entry level of 4 – 6 TRL and currently up to TRL 7 (preferred but not mandatory)
- All pilots must focus on social innovation and include citizen engagement activities in their work plan.
How to participate?
Stay tuned to our channels!
Subscribe to our newsletter and follow us on social media to find out all the details about how
to apply for our open calls, which we will be sharing soon.
The objectives
of the FOODITY programme
To fund 12 pilots that will develop innovative solutions demonstrating the potential of data-driven innovation in food and nutrition while guaranteeing the user's full control and ownership over their personal data.
To provide state-of-the-art tools/software components as building blocks and other technical resources respectful of personal data sovereignty for developing novel data-based food and nutrition systems.
To encourage the development of data-sharing practises, including data commons and open science, in the food and nutrition domain, thus encouraging innovation.
To attract top talent innovators for the development of the pilots, involve food systems stakeholders (e.g. producers, processors and retailers) in expressing their data needs to be more competitive and achieve a fairer distribution of wealth, and engage citizens in the development of the pilots, allowing them to express their needs and raise their concerns for their data rights when using data-driven solutions for food and nutrition.
To raise citizens' awareness in exercising their data rights and how they can use them to create an effect in nature-positive food systems.
Phases of the
FOODITY programme
We will develop our pilot development programme in three phases. The first one will focus on implementing the pilot projects. The second one on maximising their impact. The programme will end with an award ceremony where the winning pilot projects will benefit from an additional €7,500.
Our data storage
management system
The FOODITY dataU is a GDPR-compliant, cloud-based, distributed platform for secure data sharing. It allows full control over data, including with whom it is shared and for how long.
The service can be used to share data between citizens (data owners) and third-party services (data processors) or between two companies in accordance with their non-disclosure agreements.
The FOODITY datalake provides a centralised repository that makes data accessible for stakeholders and researchers while allowing them to perform different analyses — from temporal trends to user behaviour.
All data entered adheres to GDPR compliance, ensuring the protection of citizens and providing valuable information for applications in areas such as business intelligence and analytics.
Selected FOODITY innovators will be given training and mentoring on how to use our unique data management architecture.
Need more
informations?
Watch our info webinars to learn the keys to this open call and find out if it is for you.
Explore and contribute
to our data collection
Our data_U platform is dedicated to providing a wide range of food and nutrition data —
from nutritional information to recipes and the latest food trends.
Join our community of food enthusiasts and professionals!
You can do so either by sharing your own datasets or by exploring those shared by others.
What’s in it for you?
Our value-added services
FINANCIAL SUPPORT
Up to €187.500 per beneficiary.
ACCESS TO TECHNOLOGY
and technical support to develop their solutions.
EXPERT MENTORING
Advice on business development: from marketing and sales to financing, innovation strategy or sustainability.
GROUP COACHING
Including mutual exchange between the open call beneficiaries.
TECHNICAL TRAINING
Training on relevant technical, business, and legal issues.
Who are we looking for?
The FOODITY innovators
To arrive at tangible and impactful solutions, the teams that develop them must be diverse. That is why we are looking for
organisations with both technical and social innovation expertise, as well as citizen engagement knowledge.
Applicants can submit proposals led by an SME/startup and partner with other 2 or 3 entities that are a mix of for-profit
and non-profit organisations.
Small or Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs) and startups
developing solutions for data-driven innovation in personalised nutrition, sustainable food systems and shopping experiences.
Social innovation actors (SIAs)
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 addressing the challenges around data-driven innovation for health and nutrition, as well as mechanisms to preserve citizens' sovereignty over their personal data in health and nutrition solutions.
Training organisations
oriented to the food industry, such as culinary or nutrition schools, and interested in teaching and experimenting with the power of data for innovation and competitiveness in food production and diet planning.
Apply now!
The open call will run from 8 May to 10 July 2024 (17.00 CET). External experts will then evaluate all applications.
Applications must be submitted in English through the F6S platform.
In addition, applicants must be based in an EU or Horizon Europe-associated country.
Sign up for our info webinars and events to learn the keys to this open call and find out if it is for you!
- Info webinar 1
16 May 2024, 3:00 – 4:15pm CET
- DRG4FOOD & FOODITY Matchmaking Event
23 May 2024, 3:00 – 4:30pm CET
- Info webinar 2
18 June 2024, 3:00 – 4:00pm CET
How to find the right partners?
the right partners?
Are you interested in participating but haven’t found the right partners?
If you are an SME looking for a social innovation partner, you can start by referring to this global interactive map
which provides information on verified social innovation actors (not all listed actors may fit your needs, and other entities that are not listed may also qualify).
At FOODITY, we will support matchmaking opportunities to help you find the right partners to advance your solutions.
Are you a Social Innovation Actor (SIA)?
– A non-profit organisation that provides new practices aimed at citizen empowerment and proposes concrete actions for data sovereignty.
– An association representing consumers’ interests in health and nutrition.
Fill in the form below with your organisation’s key information. We will feature it on our website so other organisations can contact you to collaborate on a joint proposal.
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Keys
to the programme
Our FOODITY pilot development programme is structured around two calls for proposals we will publish in the second semester of 2023.
From the applications we receive, we will select 12 (6 in each open call) beneficiaries, the FOODITY innovators, with the most promising pilot project proposals for developing the next generation of data-driven solutions for food and nutrition respectful of users’ personal data sovereignty, for a 12-month programme.
The pilots will demonstrate the potential of users’ personal data in health and nutrition solutions to contribute to more just and environmentally friendly food systems.
They will benefit from added-value services, including financial support (up to 187.500€ per beneficiary), one-to-one mentoring, training, group coaching and technical support to use the infrastructure and core components of the programme, as well as assistance in assessing the individual impact of each pilot with respect to its users.
At the end of the programme, the FOODITY innovators will carry out an Impact Assessment of the results obtained by their pilot projects regarding the perception of end-users control over their personal data. They will also receive support by connecting them to different ways of sustainability, ranging from VCs to training on equity-free funding.
Our evaluation criteria
CONCEPT & RESEARCH CHALLENGES
Show how your proposed solution is aligned with the FOODITY vision and is innovative.
Provide objectives and address challenges associated with citizens’ data rights and GDPR regulations.
IMPACT & INNOVATION POTENTIAL
Describe expected results from the pilot programme and connect them to the FOODITY vision, as well as FOOD 2030 goals.
Provide both a qualitative and quantitative overview of expected long-term impact and measures to exploit results post-project.
DATA RIGHTS & CITIZEN ENGAGEMENT
Provide a provisional plan for safeguarding user data and an overview of how data will be stored and managed.
Describe citizen engagement activities for phases I and II, including examples of proposed activities and level of engagement.
TEAM & IMPLEMENTATION
Describe the work plan and propose a set of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).
Describe the team's expertise, technical knowledge, social innovation capacity in relation to citizen engagement and respect for gender balance.
FOODITY’s
pilots building blocks
PROTEIN
Will provide cutting-edge tools and software components as building blocks for developing personalised nutrition solu- tions.
PoDeID-on
Will offer a deployment-ready solution for trustworthy and secure large-scale data-sharing transactions, fully compliant with GDPR and based on centralised technologies and digital identity — thus guaranteeing the personal data sovereignty of end-users of solutions integrating this platform.
Open Call #2 documents
Make sure to read our Open Call #2 documents carefully before submitting your application!
How to participate?
Stay tuned to our channels!
Subscribe to our newsletter and follow us on social media to find out all the details about how
to apply for our open calls, which we will be sharing soon.
FAQs
Eligibility
No, partners can be from the same country.
No, corporates are not eligible for this call. Only startups and SMEs are qualified, both in terms of technical partners and social innovation actors. FOODITY applies the European Commission definition of SMEs, which can be found here.
Yes, universities fall under the category of “research and training institutions”. Also note that universities which were partners on the first Open Call are welcome to apply again, provided that the team and proposed solution are different.
Generally speaking, companies are required to show proof of VAT registration (please refer to the Guidelines for more details). However, there are cases in which companies may be exempt according to the country they are operating in. FOODITY will be requesting official information to justify this should the given applicant be selected to the programme, as well as proof of SME existence.
Applicants from Hungary will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis. It is advised that if you are an entity registered in Hungary, to speak with your National Contact Point before applying.
Budget
No, there are no requirements on budget allocation within a given consortium. It must be decided internally on an appropriate budget per partner while keeping in mind that costs must be logical and justified.
Indirect costs are the sum of all categories as stipulated in the Guidelines, calculated from A, B, C and D. Project costs are the sum of A, B, C, D and E (all).
Subcontracting is not allowed. We expect that consortia contain all the required knowledge, skills and expertise to implement their proposed solutions.
Technical
No, the minimum TRL is 4 and any proposals that fall under this minimum will be automatically deemed ineligible. Any applications in which the TRL is above 6 will also be automatically deemed ineligible.
The FOODITY Pilot Programme is focused on bringing products and services to market, however, we understand that if entering the programme at TRL 4, for example, it’s unrealistic to reach TRL 7 by the Programme’s end. We desire advancement to TRL 7 but it is not a requirement. In general, it is expected to advance from the starting TRL.
The components differ in their accessibility. It is advised to read carefully through Technical Annex 1.1 for more information about the licensing.
Prior experience with the components is not necessary. Technical support will be available throughout the pilot programme to assist in their use. Components four and five (reference Technical Annex 1.1) are already available online under their respective licenses, however, the other components are only available during the pilot programme.
The data will remain publicly available post-project (see also question 14 below). The datalake is intended to also continue post-project for 2 years after the end of the project at least, however, the business model to do so after that period is still being considered. In addition, several European initiatives are being explored to connect the datalake once FOODITY concludes.
The IP developed by the sub-grantee remains theirs, however, it is important to understand that this project is being funded by the EU under open science principles.
The solution developed is expectedly multifaceted/multilayered (i.e. the architecture will consist of various parts, components, libraries, APIs, etc.). The initial €150.000 is public money, and therefore it is our expectation that those that benefit from it, also provide back to the community.
Given this, it is our requirement that one or more parts (layers/ elements) can be made available back to the community without jeopardising the market/commercial value of a given solution/product. For those that are fully aligned with the open source initiative, we encourage that the complete solution be made available using the appropriate open source licenses.
The dataU does not organise data. This is purely for achieving clear consent according to GDPR regulations so that data can then be shared as desired. Therefore, the dataU allows for sharing between data processors.
An API can be used to connect the sub-grantee’s data platform with FOODITY’s datalake. Please contact us at opencalls@foodity.eu for more details.
Other
There is no standard amount of time a given application takes to complete. It depends on how far developed the proposed solution is, how well the Guidelines have been understood, as well as the evaluation criteria, and the applicant’s experience with EU funds. It is advised to start as soon as possible to avoid rushing through the proposal.