Funders Forum for the Future SFS Partnership

8 February 2023. Brussels. The 2nd Funders Forum was organised by the FOODPathS project.

This meeting aimed to:

• Obtain updates from different actors regarding the process towards the Sustainable Food Systems Partnership (a.o. EC DG RTD, Proposal Coordinator ANR)
• Share and collect examples of Food Systems funding approaches
• Test a Food Systems funding approach on real-life topics

Towards the EU partnership for Sustainable Food Systems for people, planet and climate

FOODPathS is a new EU-funded project that will co-create a prototype for the future EU Partnership together with researchers, policymakers, entrepreneurs and citizens. 

Coordinated by (INRAE), the project will run till December 2025.

About the Partnership

The partnership on Sustainable Food Systems for People, Planet & Climate (P-SFS) proposal ambition is to collectively develop and implement an EU-wide committed Research and Innovation partnership which accelerates the transition towards healthy diets that are safe and sustainably produced and consumed in resilient EU and global food systems. This partnership focuses on post-harvest.

SFS Partnership_SRIA_ver2.0_14102022.pdf 2.56 MB

FOODPathS partners

1. INRAE - National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment (France)
2. Aarhus University (Denmark)
3. Jülich Forschungszentrum (Germany)
4. FoodDrinkEurope (Belgium)
5. ANIA – Association Nationale des Industries Alimenatires (France)
6. FIAB – Federación Española de Industrias de la Alimentación y Bebidas (Spain)
7. Confagricoltura (Italy)
8. EFFoST (The Netherlands)
9. Polish Academy of Science – Institute of Rural and Agricultural Development (Poland)
10. ICLEI (Germany)
11. Fondazione Cariplo (Italy)
12. European Foundation Centre (Belgium)
13. EUFIC – European Food Information Council (Belgium)
14. ZonMw (The Netherlands)
15. ISEKI-Food Association (Austria)
16. INRAE Transfert (France)
17. Seinajoki University of Applied Sciences (Finland)

Related:

14 February 2023 (13.30-15.30). The SCAR Food Systems Strategic Working Group (SF SWG) is organising a webinar to present the final version of the Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda (SRIA) of the Partnership on Sustainable Food Systems (SFS) for People, Planet and Climate, on 

The SRIA was finalised by a task force of the SCAR FS SWG in collaboration with external experts, taking into account the comments received by stakeholders through a public consultation run during the last months. The SRIA is an important step in the SFS Partnership preparation, providing a framework for topics and activities for its annual work plan: thanks to this webinar, you will learn more about the research and innovation priority areas addressed by the Partnership in the upcoming years.

You can find more information, including the agenda, on this page of the #FOODPathS project website, which is supporting the event.

Survey for contributions to the future Partnership for Sustainable Food Systems (PSFS),

• The specific goal of this survey is to specify the amount of contributions (mostly in-kind, but still open to in-cash) and WP positioning for organizations that wish to join the consortium of the partnership. 
• The first ‘participation survey’ #1 is now closed. 
• If you have not replied to the first survey, you may directly reply to this second survey.
• This second ‘contribution survey’ #2 is open until Friday 28th February, 2023.