As of 3 December 2025, FutureFoodS 2025 Joint Transnational Call has been officially opened for applications. With this call, which is the second call of the partnership, it is envisaged to support innovative, interdisciplinary collaborations aimed at developing more sustainable, resilient, and healthy food systems.
With this call, innovative research and development projects aimed at creating a sustainable food future will be supported by 38 funding organisations from 20 countries and the European Commission, including TÜBİTAK and TAGEM from our country.
The call will provide funding for innovative projects contributing to one of the following topics:
Topic 1: Domestic food practices for enhancing sustainable and healthy diets: Systemic work at the household level covering food safety, cultures, nutritional needs and consumer behaviour.
Topic 2: Towards diverse, sustainable and circular food processing systems: Improved processing/packaging, valorisation of by-products and side-streams, and compositions tailored to diverse consumer groups.
Topic 3: Importance of trust and transparency. Identify leverage points; assess tools, methods, metrics, indicators and quality signals (e.g. labelling) towards a more unified framework, co-created with system actors.
Applications:
Project applications will follow a two-stage process, and proposals passing the first stage will be invited to apply for the second stage. In addition to the international application, during the stage 1 application process, the Turkish institutions/organizations involved in the project must also submit a stage 1 national application to TÜBİTAK via PBS, with an electronic signature, by the specified deadline. Funding decisions are expected to be taken at the end of 2026.
For the online application platform and all required documents, click here.
Call Timeline:
Deadline for International First-Stage Applications: 11 February 2026
Deadline for International Second-Stage Applications (By Invitation Only): 27 July 2026
Contact:
For general inquiries regarding national and international processes, you may reach us at futurefoods@tubitak.gov.tr
For call details, international application procedures, and technical issues, you may contact the FutureFoodS Call Secretariat at ptj-futurefoods@fz-juelich.de
The national and international call documents are available below.
