FS4Africa
General Information
Opening date
02 June 2025
Deadline model
single-stage
Deadline date
30 September 2025 17:00 (Brussels time)
Open For Submission
Expected duration of participation
The implementation of FS4Africa Open Call sub-projects will last for 12 months and it will be divided into 3 phases: Phase 1 – Design (M1-M3), Phase 2 – Development (M4-M9), Phase 3 – Validation (M10 – M12) .
Total funding available
600 000,00 €
Project acronym
FS4Africa
Full name of the EU funded project
Food Safety for Africa
Grant agreement number
101136916
Topic
HORIZON-CL6-2023-FARM2FORK-01-20 – EU-Africa Union – food safety
Submission & evaluation process
FS4Africa’s Open Call for proposals will be submitted digitally through the opencalls.fund (OCF) platform https://opencalls.fund/. All the documents needed for the application (FS4Africa Open Call Kit) can be found on the FS4Africa website, on the section dedicated to the Open Calls (https://foodsafety4africa.eu/open-call/). Interested Applicants should visit FS4Africa’s website (https://foodsafety4africa.eu/open-call/) for any updates and the FAQ section available in the opencalls.fund as well as on the project website.
Submissions received through any other channel will not be considered and will be automatically discarded.
Documents required in subsequent phases will be submitted via dedicated channels indicated by the FS4Africa consortium in the contracting phase. (e.g. via email).
In case multiple versions of the same application are submitted, only the last version will be evaluated. All the previous ones will not be considered and will be discarded.
Throughout the entire process, the confidentiality of applicants’ identities and the contents of the proposals will be rigorously upheld. Any details pertaining to the proposed solution will be handled with the utmost discretion.
By applying to FS4Africa Open Call, Applicants (single entities) automatically accept the terms and conditions of the Open Call as described in the Open Call Kit.
After the FS4Africa Open Call is closed, an eligibility check process will be carried out by the FS4Africa Advisory Board to discard non-eligible applications. Following the eligibility check, a remote evaluation will be done by carefully selected external reviewers. Each proposal will be reviewed by two (2) external evaluators with specific technical and/or business expertise related to the topics of the call. The evaluators will have to evaluate each proposal under specific evaluation criteria, namely: i. Concept and feasibility, ii. Technology readiness and innovation development, iii. Impact & Exploitation, iv. Organisational capacity and sufficiency in the team’s background.
All award criteria have the same weight. Each award criterion can be scored from 1 to 5 with a threshold of 3 points in each category, and a minimum of 12 points in total.