Research and innovation for food waste prevention and reduction at household level through measurement, monitoring and new technologies
HORIZON-CL6-2025-02-FARM2FORK-04-two-stage
Funding Amount
Amount not specified
Deadline
04/09/2025
Eligible Organization Types
Non-profit, Private Business, Research Institution, Public Institution
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What is the Research and innovation for food waste prevention and reduction at household level through measurement, monitoring and new technologies Call?
Grant Description
This call supports research and innovation actions to harmonise and improve measurement of household food waste across Europe through development, validation and testing of new or existing tools and methods (including AI and advanced monitoring solutions) with interoperable metadata standards for edible and inedible fractions. It also funds investigation of the direct and indirect drivers of household food waste, consumer behaviours, and exploration of eco-friendly technological solutions to pre...
Required Results for Successful Funding
Expected Outcomes
• Harmonised, Europe-wide implementation of household food waste measurement, delivering reliable, comparable data across States and target groups
• Reduced reporting burden for Member States through adoption of technological innovations integrated into monitoring solutions
• Improved understanding of underlying drivers and consumer behaviours causing household food waste, enabling policymakers to design more efficient interventions
• Enhanced Member State reporting on national household food waste levels, supporting Waste Framework Directive targets and contributing to reduced greenhouse gas emissions and resource pressure through decreased household food waste
• Reduced reporting burden for Member States through adoption of technological innovations integrated into monitoring solutions
• Improved understanding of underlying drivers and consumer behaviours causing household food waste, enabling policymakers to design more efficient interventions
• Enhanced Member State reporting on national household food waste levels, supporting Waste Framework Directive targets and contributing to reduced greenhouse gas emissions and resource pressure through decreased household food waste
Funded areas
Scope Requirements
• Develop and validate new measurement tools/methods (and test existing ones) for household food waste, distinguishing edible vs. inedible fractions and capturing wastewaters
• Integrate AI and other technological innovations to simplify data collection and reporting within advanced monitoring solutions
• Provide interoperable metadata standards for edible/inedible waste indicators, enabling federation through EOSC
• Deploy tools across a sufficiently large, diverse sample of products, target groups (gender, age, socio-economic status, ethnicity), Member States (and Associated Countries) over multiple years to generate robust, comparable data
• Highlight potential for wide uptake of proposed solutions
• Investigate direct/indirect drivers and root causes of household food waste, focusing on consumer behaviours and disposal patterns to inform behavioural change interventions
• Explore eco-friendly, low-input, efficient technologies to prevent edible food degradation in households
• Implement a multi-actor, inter- and trans-disciplinary research methodology involving consumers, civil society organisations, SSH disciplines and other food-system stakeholders
• Build on and create synergies with past/ongoing EU research (CHORIZO, WASTELESS), the European Consumer Food Waste Forum and the EU Platform on Food Losses and Food Waste
• Encourage citizen science at all research stages and proactively address inequalities and AI bias (gender, disability, ethnicity)
• Integrate AI and other technological innovations to simplify data collection and reporting within advanced monitoring solutions
• Provide interoperable metadata standards for edible/inedible waste indicators, enabling federation through EOSC
• Deploy tools across a sufficiently large, diverse sample of products, target groups (gender, age, socio-economic status, ethnicity), Member States (and Associated Countries) over multiple years to generate robust, comparable data
• Highlight potential for wide uptake of proposed solutions
• Investigate direct/indirect drivers and root causes of household food waste, focusing on consumer behaviours and disposal patterns to inform behavioural change interventions
• Explore eco-friendly, low-input, efficient technologies to prevent edible food degradation in households
• Implement a multi-actor, inter- and trans-disciplinary research methodology involving consumers, civil society organisations, SSH disciplines and other food-system stakeholders
• Build on and create synergies with past/ongoing EU research (CHORIZO, WASTELESS), the European Consumer Food Waste Forum and the EU Platform on Food Losses and Food Waste
• Encourage citizen science at all research stages and proactively address inequalities and AI bias (gender, disability, ethnicity)
Additional Conditions for Applicants
Special Conditions
• Two-stage submission model with first-stage blind evaluation (applicants must anonymise Part B)
• Lump-sum funding under HORIZON-RIA with simplified costs conditions
• Mandatory application of the multi-actor approach as defined in the Work Programme
• Involvement of Social Sciences and Humanities disciplines and integration of citizen science throughout the project
• Consortium must include a wide diversity of food-system actors, with special focus on consumer and civil society engagement
• Proposals must align with the relevant destination in the 2025 Work Programme and adhere to all Horizon Europe General Annexes (eligibility, financial/operational capacity, evaluation criteria, MGA terms)
• Applicants should coordinate with and leverage results from EU projects (CHORIZO, WASTELESS) and EU platforms, and ensure synergies with related partnerships and Missions
• Proposals must plan for data federation via EOSC and address AI ethical considerations and bias mitigation
• Lump-sum funding under HORIZON-RIA with simplified costs conditions
• Mandatory application of the multi-actor approach as defined in the Work Programme
• Involvement of Social Sciences and Humanities disciplines and integration of citizen science throughout the project
• Consortium must include a wide diversity of food-system actors, with special focus on consumer and civil society engagement
• Proposals must align with the relevant destination in the 2025 Work Programme and adhere to all Horizon Europe General Annexes (eligibility, financial/operational capacity, evaluation criteria, MGA terms)
• Applicants should coordinate with and leverage results from EU projects (CHORIZO, WASTELESS) and EU platforms, and ensure synergies with related partnerships and Missions
• Proposals must plan for data federation via EOSC and address AI ethical considerations and bias mitigation
Important dates
Open from: 06/05/2025
Deadline:04/09/2025
Application period has ended
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