Eligibility criteria for 2025

Entities are eligible to participate in the Test Farms and receive a subgrant if they:

• Are Entities from Southern, Central and Eastern Europe and Nordics: incorporated companies (SMEs registered in or after 2014) or individuals or teams from the following countries:
  • EU Member States: Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden.
  • Horizon Europe Associated Countries: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Israel, Montenegro, Republic of North Macedonia, Norway, Serbia, Turkey, Ukraine.
  • Outermost Regions: Guadeloupe, French Guiana, Réunion, Martinique, Mayotte and Saint-Martin (France), the Azores and Madeira (Portugal), and the Canary Islands (Spain).
• Have received no more than 60,000 euros in funding from EIT Food in 2024.
• Have developed an innovative solution* in agriculture/animal husbandry/primary food processing**, having minimum a prototype/minimum viable product ready to be tested in real environment.
• Have submitted a complete application in English, i.e. answered all the questions included in the form and completed and attached all the required documentation.
• Have not participated in previous editions of the Test Farms.
• Are or were not EIT Food’s RisingFoodStars

Entities are eligible to participate in the Test Farms if they:

• Are incorporated companies or individuals or teams from the following countries: Armenia, Belgium, Faroe Islands, France, Georgia, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Luxembourg, Moldova, Netherlands, Switzerland, Tunisia, United Kingdom.
• Have developed an innovative solution in agriculture/animal husbandry/primary food processing**, having minimum a prototype/minimum viable product ready to be tested in real environment.
• Have submitted a complete application in English, i.e. answered all the questions included in the form.

and completed and attached all the required documentation.

• Commit to pay the 4500 EUR + VAT participation fee (advance payment of 1000 EUR before match-making and final payment of 3500 EUR when EIT Food finds a suitable farmer).

* Appendix 1 of the Terms and Conditions provides detailed scope of solutions Test Farms is looking for.

**Primary food processing solutions can be tested only in Poland.

Please read carefully Terms and Conditions before applying to Test Farms Programme 2024.