Call for Proposals: Biotech Innovation Call (up to €3 000 awarded)

Ednah Carrick November 10, 2025

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Closing Date: 17 November 2025

Call for Proposals: Biotech Innovation Call (up to €3 000 awarded)

Overview

EIT Food is launching a Biotech Innovation call designed to boost high-potential innovations and help them reach commercialization. This funding opportunity is part of the EIT Food Co-financed Biotech Portfolio. This portfolio has identified two key industry challenges where EIT Food need to find innovative solutions. EIT Food is looking for proposals that respond to these challenges, and bring solutions to market.

Proposals must target priority areas identified by EIT Food and the Portfolio Corporate Co-financers, and demonstrate their potential to deliver long-term impact across our Missions. Your proposal should address one or both of the following challenges:

Design sustainable Downstream Processing to increase energy/water savings;
Develop Real-time Process Monitoring and Control technologies.

EIT Food is primarily interested in funding the following types of initiatives, that address the two outlined challenges:

New R&D and commercialisation projects with good prospects of getting to market within 12 months.
Existing research project teams who have a commercialisation or impact plan that needs follow-on funding to get to market. These do not have to be previous EIT Food projects – EIT Food can support projects previously funded by other EIT organisations, EU programmes and third-party funders – but projects currently receiving EU funding for the same activity are not eligible.
Develop and market new applications and business models for existing technology. This includes transferring proven technology from other sectors into the food industry. Run scale-up activities for high impact products or services that already have promising results.

Funding available

The maximum funding amount allocated to this call is €3.000.000. EIT Food expect to fund commercial projects with EIT grant funding of maximum 400K€ per project over a period of no longer than 10 months initially.

Applicants must demonstrate their capacity to cover at least 30% of the eligible project costs. In such
cases, EIT Food may reimburse up to 70% of the eligible project costs. Any other EU funding is not an
eligible source of co-funding under this scheme.
There is a 6 million EUR limit per participant from Member States of the European Union (EU) and
from Horizon Europe Associate Countries for the whole 3-year Grant Agreement.

Countries included: Funding for this Biotech Innovation Call is available to all eligible organisations, from Member States of the European Union (EU) and from Horizon Europe Associate Countries . You are not required to be an EIT Food partner to submit a proposal, or to receive funding under this call.

Deliverables

Grant recipients must submit project deliverables. For this activity the deliverables include:

DEL 1: Communication and Dissemination plan
DEL 2: Final technical report
- Summary of activities undertaken during testing, launching, and/or scaling of fast-tracked
  innovation(s) and their subsequent results
DEL 3: Final commercial report
- Documentation indicating commercial traction and uptake of fast-tracked innovation(s)
  Selected projects will also benefit from personalized input from the Biotech Portfolio Corporate Co-financers at the project’s start, middle and end, through organized meetings with the Biotech Portfolio’s Advisory Board as part of the project deliverables

Proposal Submission

For all projects, you must complete the application form in MyEITFood Portal and submit these
mandatory supporting documents through the portal for evaluation, no later than the call deadline:

Organizational Description (Pitch Deck)
Business Model/Launch Plan (outlining strength of the commercial case and/or strategy to
drive adoption by intended users – with supporting evidence and research)
Proof of current TRL (for technology-based ideas)
Revenue-Based Financing Proposal

How to apply & contact: Please check the Call Guidelines attached or email us at [email protected].