Green Transition Food Processing Africa
Funds African and European food-business entrepreneurs through a mentoring and cascading-grants scheme for greener, safer food processing.
This is a single-stage Research and Innovation Action with an indicative allocation of EUR 11,000,000, expected to fund two projects worth EUR 5,000,000 to 6,000,000 each. Proposals may pass financial support to third parties -- including academic researchers, start-ups and SMEs -- capped at EUR 60,000 per recipient, and consortia need at least three independent partners established in an African …
This call wants African food processing facilities working with underutilised crops — pulses, millets, cassava, cocoa, fruit — to improve storage, quality control and processing using life sciences, biotechnology and renewable energy. It explicitly wants proposals to mentor and accelerate startups and innovative SMEs, with special attention to women, young entrepreneurs and the diaspora, using cascading funding.
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