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Visit funder's website →HORIZON-CL6-2026-03-GOVERNANCE-08 is a Horizon Europe Cluster 6 topic funding work to boost data availability and AI solutions in food for consumers and food service professionals, with an indicative budget of approximately 7. 5 million euros per project for 2 projects, a total of roughly 15 million euros, under a single-stage call that opened 14 January 2026 with a deadline of 15 April 2026.
Alongside HORIZON-CL6-2027-03-GOVERNANCE-04 on AI advice for farmers and foresters, it is one of only two Cluster 6 2026-27 topics with AI explicitly in the title, making the pair the principal entry points for artificial intelligence work in the EU's food, bioeconomy, natural resources, agriculture and environment cluster.
The topic's defining characteristic is that it treats data availability as the primary bottleneck rather than model capability.
Food data in Europe is fragmented across composition databases, labelling and provenance systems, sustainability metrics and consumption records, held by public bodies, retailers, manufacturers and research institutions under differing access and licensing regimes, and the call is structured around making that data usable before building AI on top of it.
The second distinguishing feature is the choice of end users: consumers and food service professionals, rather than farmers, processors or regulators.
That pushes successful proposals toward applied, user-facing tools, for example dietary and sustainability decision support, menu and procurement optimisation for canteens and caterers, and provenance transparency for shoppers, and it requires consortium partners drawn from the food service sector and consumer organisations rather than only research institutions. The 15 April 2026 deadline has passed so no deadline is recorded.
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Or search similar grants →According to the current listing, eligibility includes: Standard Horizon Europe rules apply: proposals require a consortium of at least three independent legal entities from three different EU Member States or Horizon Europe Associated Countries, with at least one established in a Member State, although a 7.5 million euro project realistically needs many more partners than the minimum. Eligible participant types are broad, covering universities, research and technology organisations, public authorities, SMEs, large companies, consumer organisations, food service operators and NGOs, and UK entities are eligible through the UK's association to Horizon Europe. As a Research and Innovation Action the funding rate is 100 percent of eligible direct costs for all participants plus the standard 25 percent flat-rate indirect cost allowance. The substantive eligibility filter is twofold and both halves must be met. First, the work must address data availability in food, meaning concrete action on access, interoperability, harmonisation and governance of food-related datasets rather than an assumption that data is already available. Second, the AI solutions must serve the two named user groups, consumers and food service professionals, so a proposal aimed at primary production, farm management, processing plant optimisation or regulatory enforcement is out of scope regardless of technical merit. Consortia therefore need credible representation from the food service sector, such as caterers, canteen operators or hospitality bodies, and from consumer organisations, together with the data holders whose datasets the project intends to unlock. Cluster 6 applies the multi-actor approach, so end users must be engaged in co-design throughout rather than consulted at the end. The call was single-stage with a full proposal required at first submission; it opened 14 January 2026 and closed 15 April 2026, and that deadline has passed. Confirm the full requirements in the official notice before applying.
The current listing shows the indicative EU contribution is approximately 7.5 million euros per project with 2 projects expected, giving a total topic budget of approximately 15 million euros. Converted at roughly 1.08 US dollars to the euro, amount_min and amount_max are both recorded as 8,100,000 since a single indicative figure is published rather than a range. At 7.5 million euros this is one of the larger single-topic awards in Cluster 6 and it funds a substantial multi-partner programme, typically ten to twenty partners over three to four years, not a focused research project. The budget shape is driven by the topic's subject matter, which is data availability as much as AI: a large share of cost goes to assembling, harmonising and governing food data across member states, including composition, labelling, provenance, sustainability and consumption data held by different actors under different legal regimes. That data-integration work is expensive, slow and legally complex, and bids that under-budget it in order to spend more on model development tend to fail delivery rather than evaluation. The named beneficiaries, consumers and food service professionals, add a second cost centre that is easy to underestimate: reaching food service professionals such as caterers, canteen operators and restaurant staff requires real pilot deployment, training and user research across multiple countries. Applicants should also account for Horizon Europe cash-flow mechanics, with reimbursement against a grant agreement and pre-financing, meaning partners need working capital. With only 2 projects funded from a single-stage call, competition is intense and differentiation matters more than breadth. Verify award ceilings, matching requirements, and allowable costs in the official notice.
Horizon Europe HORIZON-CL6-2026-03-GOVERNANCE-08 Boosting Data Availability and AI Solutions in Food for Consumers and Food Service Professionals is funded by European Commission (Horizon Europe Cluster 6 - Food, Bioeconomy, Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment). Verify program details on the funder's official page before applying.
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