Open Call for Knowledge Transfer Grants to fund digital training projects: €25,000 per grant – Apply Now!

Ednah Carrick January 17, 2026

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Closing Date: 2 March 2026

Open Call for Knowledge Transfer Grants to fund digital training projects: €25,000 per grant – Apply Now!

Develop practical, digital training for farmers, processors, and start-ups.

STREAMING invites organizations from Africa and Europe to apply for the Open Call for Knowledge Transfer, offering €25,000 per grant to fund in total 11 digital training projects that strengthen sustainable food trade systems.

STREAMING seek research institutions, universities, NGOs, industry partners, vocational institutions, and innovation hubs to design interactive, practice-oriented courses connecting researchers with farmers, producers, start-ups, and public health actors.

A key priority of the Open Call for Knowledge Transfer is women’s empowerment. Courses should adequately target women farmers, entrepreneurs, processors, and/or innovators. Projects are expected to run for 8–12 months, and all funded courses must use engaging digital formats such as interactive videos, applications, process descriptions and recipes for sustainable food products.

Priority topics include traceability within food supply chains, life cycle assessment of food products, sustainable farming systems, nutritional requirements, reducing micronutrient deficiencies, food waste reduction, food safety, and scaling innovations in the food supply chain, with a specified number of grants per topic. The grants aim to connect research partners in Europe and Africa with practical actors (e.g. farmers, processors, startups) and to provide free access to high‑quality training on key sustainability challenges such as climate‑smart agriculture, market access for smallholders (especially women), food preservation and processing, alternative proteins, and trade‑relevant food safety and traceability systems.

The call is part of the wider STREAMING project (Sustainable Trade Regimes with Europe and Africa through Mapping Innovation, New‑Technology and Growth‑Mindset), which aims to support fair, healthy and environmentally friendly food systems and to inform trade policy between Africa and Europe by addressing non‑tariff barriers, logistics gaps and market access constraints. STREAMING focuses on empowering youth and women, strengthening entrepreneurial mindsets, and building resilient local food value chains through innovation hubs, startup support, hackathons and targeted training, with this Knowledge Transfer Grant specifically dedicated to building the project’s open online learning platform.

Who can Apply

Eligible Third Parties include:

Research institutions & universities
NGOs & industry partners
Innovation hubs, business schools, vocational colleges
Consortia across Africa and Europe

At least 60% of the funding will support African Third Parties, with special encouragement for women-led organizations and female innovators.

Applicants may come from any country, not only STREAMING partner nations.

The Open Call Kit provides all essential information and documentation required to prepare and submit a proposal under this call. It is intended to guide applicants through the entire application process – from understanding the call objectives to fulfilling formal submission requirements. The necessary documents for the submission of a proposal are displayed down below and include.

Open Call for Proposals, the official publication notice.
Knowledge Transfer Call text document.
Proposal template, word document to be submitted as a PDF in the application phase.
Declaration of Honour (DoH), a mandatory statement confirming the applicant’s eligibility and compliance with the call’s rules.
Consortium Agreement, document mandatory for applying consortia.
Declaration on double funding for recipients, to be signed at proposal submission as well at the end of the project.

Key funding details

Maximum grant per project: €25,000.
Total call budget: €275,000 for 11 grants (traceability – 1; LCA – 1; nutritional requirements – 2; micronutrient deficiencies – 2; food waste – 1; sustainable farming – 2; food safety – 1; scaling innovations – 1).
Project duration: 8–12 months.
Evaluation timeline: Eligibility checks in March 2026; evaluation and selection from March to June 2026; evaluation results and contracting by 15 July 2026.

How to apply

Applicants must:

Develop a concept for an interactive digital course aligned with one main STREAMING topic, with the option to indicate a secondary topic.
Prepare a budget (up to €25,000) that primarily covers personnel for course development, testing and improvements, and any scholarships embedded to increase outreach.
Ensure compliance with Horizon Europe rules and the call’s specific eligibility criteria for financial support to third parties.
Prepare and submit the proposal template and Declaration of Honour as part of the Open Call Kit, via the STREAMING application channel indicated in the call documentation.