Competitive Food Sector and Sustainable Transitions

Co-created Innovations for a Competitive Food Sector and Sustainable Transitions

Funds Swedish food companies co-creating food-sector innovations with academic partners.

⚠ This may reflect a past cycle — verify the current call on the funder's site.

Co-created Innovations for a Competitive Food Sector and Sustainable Transitions is a Formas innovation call under the national research programme for food. It targets established companies and research organisations that want to co-create practical food-sector solutions, especially under the theme of innovations for sustainable and healthy diets.

Projects run for 12 to 24 months and may request between SEK 1 million and SEK 2 million from Formas. The total call budget is SEK 15 million. Companies can receive support for up to 40 percent of eligible costs, so the company partner must cover the remaining project costs through own funding or other eligible financing.

The applicant team must consist of exactly two parties working with food-related issues: one company and one academic partner such as a university, college, or research institute. The business partner must be an established company with a Swedish organisation number and at least three years of economic activity in a market. Both business parties and research performers may be main applicants if they can act as the administrating organisation in Prisma.

Applications were submitted through Prisma as an organisational call. The call closed at 2 p.m. on January 29, 2026, and decisions were expected on June 16, 2026. Formas assesses eligibility, partner composition, budget, company credit checks, and then reviews eligible applications on relevance, potential, implementation, and actors.

As of this refresh, the application window is closed and the page includes preliminary awarded-project information. The row is still useful as a distinct Formas company-winnable innovation grant route, but applicants should wait for a successor call rather than attempting to submit under this closed cycle.