EIT Food Open Calls
Are you a startup looking for a food grant to get your idea off the ground? Or perhaps you are an investor looking to fund an idea?
By working with EIT Food you will become part of the largest and most dynamic food innovation community in the world. We often have opportunities for food grants and we list all our active opportunities here - or you can sign up to be the first to know about them.
Find a food grant opportunity below and let us know if you are interested in getting involved - we cannot wait to hear from you.
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EIT Jumpstarter – Call for participants 2026
Deadline: May 08, 2026
The EIT Jumpstarter is pre-acceleration programme jointly organised by six EIT KICs to help researchers, innovators, students and idea holders in validating their innovative concepts and developing business skills to launch their startups.
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Call for Empowering Women in Agrifood (EWA) Grow Programme 2026 Participants
Deadline: April 26, 2026
Open call
The EWA Grow Programme 2026 is looking for women entrepreneurs from Albania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Italy, Lithuania, Portugal, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, Türkiye and Ukraine to join a 6-month programme and develop or grow their agrifood…
Call for Empowering Women in Agrifood (EWA) Advance Programme 2026 Participants
Deadline: April 26, 2026
Open call
The EWA Advance Programme 2026 aims to select female founders of agrifood startups with market traction to participate in a pan-European scaling programme focused on accelerating commercial growth and investment readiness.
Call for Laboratory Analysis of Soil Samples in Navarra 360 Lanscape
Deadline: April 27, 2026
Open call
This EIT Food Call for Proposals has the objective of recruiting an entity to conduct laboratory analysis of soil samples for various parameters in the Navarra 360 project in 2026 and 2027
RisingFoodStars 2026
Deadline: April 30, 2026
Open call
The RisingFoodStars verification badge acts as a shorthand for company’s maturity, showing that the venture has gone through a structured, demanding process to strengthen its leadership, commercial model, investment readiness and system…
Open call
EIT Food is seeking an implementing participant to deliver farmer engagement, mobilisation and communications to support structured feedback on a regenerative agriculture landscape finance model replication pilot in the UK.
Open call
This Call has the objective of recruiting one technical delivery participant to provide technical support and to conduct an assessment of the replicability of a pre-defined regenerative agriculture landscape finance model underway in the…
Ignite NEB 2026 - Open call for hosts
Deadline: May 07, 2026
Open call
Ignite NEB supports local organisations to run a full innovation journey that helps people:
· turn ideas into real projects, start-ups or initiatives
· create their own jobs
· solve challenges in their own communities
EIT Jumpstarter – Call for participants 2026
Deadline: May 08, 2026
Open call
The EIT Jumpstarter is pre-acceleration programme jointly organised by six EIT KICs to help researchers, innovators, students and idea holders in validating their innovative concepts and developing business skills to launch their startups.
Ireland Resilient Agriculture Landscape
Deadline: May 25, 2026
Open call
Recruiting a consortium to deliver the Ireland Resilient Agriculture Project from 2026-28, supporting arable and livestock farmers in transitioning to regenerative agriculture, with a project co-financed by EIT Food and corporate offtakers.
North of France Resilient Agriculture Landscape
Deadline: June 15, 2026
Open call
This call aims to recruit implementation partners to deliver the France Resilient Agriculture Landscape, an initiative that focuses on accelerating the transition towards resilient and regenerative agricultural systems in the North of…
Proof-of-Concept Co-Financing Instrument
Deadline: November 30, 2026
Open call
EIT Food's Co-Financing Instrument aids agrifood startups by de-risking pilot projects and promoting innovation and collaboration with industry leaders.
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Open call
The call supports high-potential agrifood and foodtech startups to validate their technologies, accelerate go-to-market readiness, and access European expertise, networks, and funding through the EIT Food Accelerator Network.
Open call
As part of its mission to make food systems healthier and more sustainable, EIT Food has created the Regenerative Agriculture line of action, one of whose main aims is to help farmers learn about and transition to more sustainable methods…
Open call
We’re calling on startups and other innovators developing low-carbon, fat solutions to transform pet food production.
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