FCI4Africa aims to enhance sustainable, fair, and healthy food systems within Africa, focusing on free and fair trade, Non-Tariff Measures (NTMs) harmonization, and digitization in food systems, alongside promoting knowledge development through open science and digital platforms. In order to provide financial support to third parties activities, the Consortium will
launch two Open Calls for single applicants:
- Open Call 1 (OC1) (CALL DEADLINE 30th JUNE) addressed to research and technology stakeholders (start-ups, SMEs, research organisations, and other multidisciplinary actors) to test, validate and enhance the business concepts and tools of the project or develop ideas and tools or prepare data sets that contribute to project’s objectives, which can then be introduced to the market.
- Open Call 2 (OC2) to innovation hubs in order to train use case partners, open call beneficiaries by providing mentoring and accelerating innovative business concepts, including social innovation and upscaling in view of African or European food business entrepreneurs and start-ups. The activities can be either virtual or in-person.
The 2 Open Calls will result in 12 sub-projects in total.
● Eight (8) sub-projects (max) will be selected for OC1 (total OC1 budget €400k – up to €50k for each third party)
● Four (4) sub-projects (max) will be selected for OC2 (total OC2 budget €200k – up to €50k for each third party
The following use cases will enable testing and co-development of climate-neutral, fair, and just food system innovations and business models in the real world.
- Promoting a healthy, safe, and profitable food system through scaling proven food safety technologies: Burkina Faso, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria
- Deploying digital solutions for trade facilitation through compliance with integrated quality standards and non-tariff measures (NTMs): Kenya, Nigeria
- Elaborate approaches to increase resilience of rural communities against shocks Senegal, Nigeria
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