Food Tech grants in Canada

Open

Supports collaborative teams in Canada through Protein Industries Canada Artificial Intelligence co-investment for plant-based innovation.

Open

Funds ocean-economy innovation consortia developing scaled energy, sustainable seafood, and ocean technology.

Open

Funds ocean innovation ecosystems with workforce, training, and partnerships to strengthen real-world implementation.

Open

Funds collaborative plant-protein research and production projects in Canada through partner-led co-investment.

Between cycles

Supports Quebec small firms expanding into Europe by funding export-market projects and international business development.

Closed

Funds joint India-Canada industrial R&D projects with a grant up to INR 1.5 crore per project.

Pays up to $8,000 to Canada-based individuals, teams and very early-stage companies who complete a milestone-based customer discovery sprint validating an ocean-sustainability idea.

Closed

Funds Canadian food manufacturers and processors through Protein Industries Canada co-investment to reformulate or scale up products using domestic plant-protein ingredients.

Discontinued

Funds team-based health grants tackling national and international priorities to strengthen real-world implementation.

Open

Funds two €6M research consortia that quantify agrobiodiversity's payoff and build the tools and finance to help farmers adopt it profitably.

Open

Funds a single €3M contract for policy researchers to run advisory and benchmarking work that helps EU governments grow their bioeconomies — not a lab grant.

Open

Funds industrial consortia that recycle multilayer plastic food packaging back into food-contact-safe plastic, at scale.

Funds EU bio-based innovation projects with up to Euro20 million per topic.

Open

Funds one €20M innovation project that scales alternative proteins, oils, fibres or specialty carbohydrates into safe, accepted food ingredients.

Open

Pays research consortiums roughly €3-4 million to map the skills young people and workers need for the green transition in one high-impact sector and how to teach them.

Open

Funds one coordination project to run the AU-EU food-security research partnership and seed-fund African agri-food startups.

Scheduled

Funds two €6.4M projects that turn soil-friendly biotechnology into scalable, safe and market-ready farm solutions.

Scheduled

Funds two €8M projects that scale agroforestry across landscapes and make healthier soil a practical, profitable choice.

Scheduled

Funds one €4.75M action linking research agendas, initiatives and practitioners across Europe's food, farming, forestry, fisheries and bioeconomy sectors.

Scheduled

Funds €7.2–7.7M projects that turn seafood waste and by-products into circular, profitable and lower-impact ocean value chains.

Scheduled

Funds two €7M projects to turn underused biomass and bio-waste into valuable products through local platforms, better logistics and circular business models.

Scheduled

Funds two €6M research projects that turn systemic-risk evidence into stronger resilience policies for European agriculture, forestry and supply chains.

Scheduled

Funds a €7.8M Innovation Action that uses AI to map the foodome and make food-safety and nutrition research more predictive.

Scheduled

Funds two €7–8M innovation projects that move food-system microbiome products from validated testing toward reliable EU-market scale-up.