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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Call for Expression of Interest EIT Food Evaluators in Agriculture
Deadline: March 29, 2026
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.
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Reimagining Pet Nutrition: Sustainable & Engineered Fat Solutions
Deadline: March 16, 2026
3 days left!
Open call
We’re calling on startups and other innovators developing low-carbon, fat solutions to transform pet food production.
Call for Expression of Interest EIT Food Evaluators in Agriculture
Deadline: March 29, 2026
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.
Biodiversity pilot of Navarra 360 Call Guidelines
Deadline: April 02, 2026
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…
EIT Food Accelerator Network (FAN) – Call for Startups 2026
Deadline: April 08, 2026
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.
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.
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…
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Offering up to €2 million per project to build innovation & entrepreneurship capacity in Higher Education Institutions.
Request for Implementing Participants of Building Entrepreneurial Capacities for Women in the Agrifood Sector (EWA Programme)
Deadline: March 03, 2026
Closed
Open call
This call seeks to appoint implementing organisations to deliver the Empowering Women in Agrifood (EWA) Programme in 2026, covering Module 2 (Grow) through up to 12 locally based organisations and Module 3 (Advance) through one…
Call for Delivery of the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Module in MFS
Deadline: February 17, 2026
Closed
Open call
Call for a contributor to join an existing consortium tasked with implementing the Entrepreneurship and Innovation in the Food System (EIFS) module, as part of the KAVA Master in Food Systems
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