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Food Tech grants in Canada

Explore Food Tech grants for companies in Canada. This list brings together funding for alternative proteins, food safety, nutrition, processing and supply-chain innovation from Canadian innovation agencies, research funders and foundations, international programs open to applicants in Canada, and competitions any company can enter, with the deadline, award size and eligibility on every listing. Grants aimed at Food Tech in Canada come first.

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Showing 73-96 of 220 grants

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Grand Challenges — Cost-Reducing Innovations for Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Food

Gates Foundation · United States

Funds global teams developing innovations in protein, lipids, packaging, and manufacturing that reduce the ex-factory unit cost of ready-to-use therapeutic food by at least 30%.

Food TechAdvanced Manufacturing+3
$1.5M
Empire State Development logo
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Grow-NY Food & Agriculture Startup Competition

ESD · United States

Awards up to $1 million to food and ag startups that build their business in New York.

AgritechFood Tech
$1M
Hello Tomorrow logo
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Hello Tomorrow Global Challenge (9th Edition)

Hello Tomorrow · Global / Multinational

Pays a 100,000-euro equity-free grand prize to early-stage deep tech startups globally.

AerospaceHardware+8
€20K – €100K
Coefficient Giving logo
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Humane Fish Slaughter RFP

Coefficient · United States

Supports humane fish capture and slaughter innovation to improve welfare in aquaculture and fishing operations.

AgritechFood Tech
WF
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Innovate for Impact Challenge

World Food Prize · United States

Awards $50,000 to the top early-stage AgTech startup pitching at the Borlaug Dialogue.

AgritechFood Tech
$5K – $50K
WF
Closed

Startup Innovation Awards

WFF · Global / Multinational

Awards at least $7,500 per category, plus a $10,000 bonus for the top agrifood startup.

AgritechFood Tech+1
$3K – $10K
Coefficient Giving logo
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Alternative Protein R&D RFP

Coefficient · United States

Funds global R&D teams developing alternative protein ingredients and food-science methods through Coefficient Giving grant awards.

Food TechBiotech
$100K – $1M
Gates Foundation logo
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Grand Challenges — Micronutrient Absorption Barriers in Fortified Foods

Gates Foundation · United States

Funds global teams researching novel approaches to overcome infection, inflammation, and microbiome-related barriers that reduce the effectiveness of food fortification programs.

BiotechAgritech+3
$250K
EUREKA Network logo
Open

Eurostars Call 11 for projects

🇪🇺EUREKA · Global / Multinational

Funds international R&D and innovation projects led by an SME through each country's own national funding body.

Sep'26
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ERC Proof of Concept Grants

🇪🇺ERC · European Union

Pays existing ERC grant holders a EUR 150,000 lump sum to explore the commercial or social innovation potential of their ERC-funded research.

€150KSep'26
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Horizon EIE: Technology Transfer Offices

🇪🇺European Commission · European Union

Funds five €1M projects that help universities and research organisations turn academic inventions into licences, spin-offs and industry deals.

€1MSep'26
European Commission logo
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Creative alliances: Fostering global partnerships in cultural policies and CCI innovation

🇪🇺European Commission · European Union

Pays international research consortiums roughly €3-3.75 million to build cross-regional creative-industry and cultural-diplomacy partnerships between Europe and world regions such as Africa, Asia and Latin America.

€3M – €3.8MSep'26
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Governing global commons sustainably

🇪🇺European Commission · European Union

Pays research consortiums roughly €3.5-4 million to develop policy solutions for the sustainable, science-informed governance of shared global resources like the climate, biodiversity and outer space.

€3.5M – €4MSep'26
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Government in transition — how governments change the way they work and prepare the civil service for the future

🇪🇺European Commission · European Union

Pays research consortiums roughly €3.5-4 million to study how EU and Associated Country governments are reinventing internal operations and preparing their civil services for the future.

€3.5M – €4MSep'26
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Making Europe a global magnet for talent — attracting and retaining non-EU students, researchers and high-skilled workers

🇪🇺European Commission · European Union

Pays research consortiums roughly €3-3.3 million to study what draws and keeps non-EU students, researchers and high-skilled workers in Europe.

€3M – €3.3MSep'26
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Safeguarding linguistic diversity in Europe

🇪🇺European Commission · European Union

Pays research consortiums roughly €5-5.75 million to document, map and help safeguard Europe's regional, minority and endangered languages.

€5M – €5.8MSep'26
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Tackling child poverty and ensuring disadvantaged children's access to Early Childhood Education and Care

🇪🇺European Commission · European Union

Pays research consortiums roughly €3-4 million to produce EU-specific evidence on the cost of child poverty and how to close gaps in disadvantaged children's access to early childhood education.

€3M – €4MSep'26
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Tackling gender-based violence against politically active women and LGBTIQ people

🇪🇺European Commission · European Union

Pays research consortiums roughly €3.5-4 million to study, and recommend policy responses to, gender-based violence against politically active women and LGBTIQ people.

€3.5M – €4MSep'26
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Horizon Research Management Facility

🇪🇺European Commission · European Union

Funds a Europe-wide support service that helps Widening-country research institutions build stronger management teams, systems and training.

€7MSep'26
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Horizon Widening: Teaming CoE Synergies

🇪🇺European Commission · European Union

Funds one €7M action for research centres in widening regions to share expertise, build capacity and create lasting regional and European impact.

€7MSep'26
European Commission logo
Open

MSCA Doctoral Networks 2026

🇪🇺European Commission · European Union

Funds partnerships of universities, research institutes and businesses to jointly run doctoral training programmes for early-career researchers.

Nov'26
European Institute of Innovation and Technology logo
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European Prize for Women Innovators

🇪🇺EIT · European Union

Awards women founders and co-founders across three prize categories, from EUR 20,000 up to EUR 100,000, for leading breakthrough European innovations.

€20K – €100KDec'26
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Pillar II: Talent ecosystems for attractive early research careers

🇪🇺European Commission · European Union

Funds cross-sector consortia building 'talent ecosystems' that connect researcher training with employer needs to make early research careers more attractive.

€2M – €4MMar'27
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Pillar III: Promoting public engagement in R&I and scientific literacy

🇪🇺European Commission · European Union

Funds consortia running youth science-engagement programmes or researcher-public dialogue events under one of two chosen tracks to boost trust in science.

€1MMar'27

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