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Practical knowledge of Food and Green: Thematic questions September 2025

Practical knowledge of Food and Green: Thematic questions September 2025

Funding Amount

Amount not specified

Deadline

30/09/2025

Eligible Organization Types

Research Institution, Public Institution

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What is the Practical knowledge of Food and Green: Thematic questions September 2025 Call?

Grant Description
This call supports thematic research by universities of applied sciences to address specific societal challenges in the green domain, focusing on food and environmental sustainability. It aims to enhance the role of applied sciences in generating practical knowledge and solutions.
Required Results for Successful Funding

Expected Outcomes

• Generation of robust, practical knowledge, tools or prototypes that support sustainable food systems and green-sector innovations (e.g. new production methods, resource-efficient technologies, biodiversity enhancement)

• Demonstrable impact on specific societal challenges (e.g. reducing food waste, improving soil health, circular resource use)

• Strengthened capacity and visibility of Universities of Applied Sciences in tackling green domain challenges

• Enhanced, enduring partnerships between academia and industry, fostering continued knowledge exchange beyond project end

• Delivery of open reports, case studies, pilot results and stakeholder workshops that facilitate wider adoption of the research outputs in practice
Funded areas

Scope Requirements

• Eligibility: only Dutch Universities of Applied Sciences may apply.

• Consortia must involve interdisciplinary collaboration across at least two academic disciplines (e.g. environmental science, biology, technology, economics, planning).

• Mandatory collaboration with one or more industry partners (SMEs, larger companies or other practice organisations) to ensure co-creation and direct knowledge transfer.

• Research must be of an applied-sciences nature, with clear pathways to practical implementation.

• Projects must address one or more of the thematic questions defined under the PVG Thematische Calls 2025 'Practical knowledge of Food and Green,' focusing on receiving, processing or applying knowledge for specific societal challenges in the green domain.

• Projects must comply with the PVG Thematische Calls 2025 programme rules and budgetary guidelines.
Additional Conditions for Applicants

Special Conditions

• Full proposals must be submitted by 30 September 2025, 14:00 hrs CET; late submissions will be excluded.

• Total available budget for the call is €4,000,000; individual project budgets must adhere to limits set out in the Regieorgaan SIA funding regulations.

• Finance type: Applied Science funding; all cost categories must follow the Regieorgaan SIA financial rules.

• Interdisciplinary collaboration, industry partnership and an applied-sciences research approach are mandatory; applications missing any of these elements will be deemed ineligible.

• Projects must conform to the general grant conditions of Regieorgaan SIA (e.g. reporting, intellectual property, dissemination obligations).
Important dates

Deadline:30/09/2025

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