EU support to Stakeholders to improve measurement of food waste and help implement food waste prevention in their operations and organisation - 2026-2027

Home Funding Calls for proposals EU support to Stakeholders to improve measurement of food waste and help implement food waste prevention in their operations and organisation - 2026-2027 EU support to Stakeholders to improve measurement of food waste and help implement food waste prevention in their operations and organisation - 2026-2027 SMP-FOOD-2026-FW-STAKEHOLDERS-PJ Topic Calls for proposals Internal navigation General information Topic updates Conditions and documents Budget overview Partner search announcements Start submission Topic Q&As Get support General information Programme Single Market Programme (SMP) Call EU support to Stakeholders to improve measurement of food waste and help implement food waste prevention in their operations and organisation - 2026-2027 (SMP-FOOD-2026-FW-STAKEHOLDERS-PJ) Type of action SMP-PJG SMP Project Grants Type of MGA SMP Action Grant Budget-Based [SMP-AG] Open For Submission Deadline model Single-stage Opening date 16 June 2026 Deadline date 15 October 2026 17:00:00 Brussels time Topic updates 16 June 2026 The submission session is now available for: SMP-FOOD-2026-FW-STAKEHOLDERS-PJ Show more Topic conditions and documents Conditions 1. Admissibility conditions: Proposal page limit and layout described in the call document. Proposal page limits and layout: described in Part B of the Application Form available in the Submission System. 2. Eligible countries described in the call document. 3. Other eligibility conditions n/a 4. Financial and operational capacity and exclusion n/a 5a. Evaluation and award: Submission and evaluation processes n/a 5b. Evaluation and award: Award criteria, scoring and thresholds Evaluation criteria, scoring, threshold and process are described in the call document. 5c. Evaluation and award: Indicative timeline for evaluation and grant agreement described in the call document. 6. Legal and financial set-up of the grants n/a Call document and annexes: Call document Application form templates Standard proposal template (FOOD) — the application form specific to this call is available in the Submission System Detailed budget template (FOOD) Model Grant Agreements (MGA) SMP MGA Additional documents: SMP Work Programmes SMP Regulation 2021/690: Single Market Programme establishment act EU Financial Regulation 2024/2509 Rules for Legal Entity Validation, LEAR Appointment and Financial Capacity Assessment EU Grants AGA — Annotated Model Grant Agreement Funding & Tenders Portal Online Manual Funding & Tenders Portal Terms and Conditions Funding & Tenders Portal Privacy Statement Show more Budget overview Topic Stages Opening date Deadline Contributions Indicative number of grants SMP-FOOD-2026-FW-STAKEHOLDERS-PJ - SMP-PJG SMP Project Grants Single-stage 16 June 2026 15 October 2026 Items per page: 10 50 100 Showing 1–1 of 1 Partner search announcements 39 Searches of partners to collaborate on this topic View / Edit LEARs, Account Administrators or self-registrants can publish partner requests for open and forthcoming topics after logging into this Portal, as well as any user having an active public Person profile. Start submission Need help? To access the Electronic Submission Service, please click on the submission-button next to the type of action and the type of model grant agreement that corresponds to your proposal. You will then be asked to confirm your choice, as it cannot be changed in the submission system. Upon confirmation, you will be linked to the correct entry point. To access existing draft proposals for this topic, please login to the Funding & Tenders Portal and select the My Proposals page of the My Area section. Please select the type of your submission: SMP Project Grants [SMP-PJG], SMP Action Grant Budget-Based [SMP-AG] Start submission Topic Q&As17 item(s) found General FAQ Does the co-financing obligation apply to all partners in the consortium, or only to the lead partner? Furthermore, if an SME participates as a partner, must it also contribute to the co-financing? The call SMP-FOOD-2026-FW-STAKEHOLDERS-PJ – in section 10, provides that the funding rate is 50% . With respect to the funding rate and its application the AGA, in pages 35-36, furth... "The costs will be reimbursed at the funding rate fixed in the Grant Agreement 50%".Q: Must the co-financing necessarily be in cash, or is in-kind co-financing also permitted—specifically, by allocating the cost of human resources to the project budget? According to the annotations to Article 5 of the Annotated Grant Agreement (AGA), pages 35–36: “EU grants are normally subject to ‘co-financing’ or ‘co-funding’, meaning that the EU ... For a multi-beneficiary consortium, can the SME requirement be met by an SME participating as an associated partner or subcontractor rather than as a beneficiary? Section 6 (Consortium composition) requires that, in a multi-beneficiary consortium, one of the beneficiaries — i.e. a signatory to the Grant Agreement — must be an SME representativ... Can project activities under this call take place in a non-eligible country? Section 6 of the Call Document states that proposals must relate to activities taking place in eligible countries — i.e. EU Member States (including OCTs). This applies regardless of... May a legal entity established in a non-eligible country (e.g. Türkiye) participate as a funded beneficiary in this call? In principle, no. Under Section 6 of the Call Document, eligible participants must be established in an eligible country, i.e. an EU Member State (including OCTs). Türkiye is not on ... What are the general eligibility conditions for costs under the SMP-FOOD-2026-FW-STAKEHOLDERS-PJ call, and what budget categories should costs be declared under? The call document SMP-FOOD-2026-FW-STAKEHOLDERS-PJ – call-fiche_smp-food-2026-fw-stakeholders-pj_en.pdf - provides information on this topic, especially in the “EU Grants AGA — Annot... Who can apply under the SMP-FOOD-2026-FW-STAKEHOLDERS-PJ call — what are the requirements for consortium composition and participant/country eligibility? The call document SMP-FOOD-2026-FW-STAKEHOLDERS-PJ - call-fiche_smp-food-2026-fw-stakeholders-pj_en.pdf – provides information on this topic (section 6 of the call document) The call... Can a Ukrainian SME apply as a single beneficiary under the exceptional eligibility provision and receive EU funding? If not, can it participate as a funded beneficiary in a consortium with an EU-based entity? Section 6 of the call document mentions that legal entities from countries that are not EU Member State (including overseas countries and territories (OCTs)) are exceptionally eligib... Can a beneficiary have a subcontractor being an entity registered in Israel? The call does not state specific limitations to subcontracting, therefore, an entity based in Israel may cover the role of subcontractor in a grant as long as all applicable procurem... Is a SME eligible to be a project coordinator? Yes, a SME is an eligible applicant. Can one consortium beneficiary financially support another to cover eligible costs not reimbursed by the EU grant? If so, how should this be treated, budgeted and regulated, and are there restrictions under the Grant Agreement? According to the AGA Annotated Grant Agreement, p.35 and p.36 clarify that the part of the action that is not co-financed by the EU-funding, is financed by other sources. These sourc... Are A.1–A.3 personnel costs eligible under the standard Grant Agreement rules, and does the “SME owner/natural person unit cost” provision apply specifically to A.4 SME owners and natural person beneficiaries? Regarding the declaration of personnel costs for SME owners and natural‑person beneficiaries, Article 6.2.A.4 of the SMP Food MGA states: “A.4 The work of SME owners for the action (... Must equipment costs be declared exclusively as depreciation, or can full capitalised purchase costs be eligible under certain conditions? As stated in the Call Document (Section 10, subsection “Budget categories and cost‑eligibility rules”), equipment costs shall be declared as depreciation costs. Consequently, in the ... How an entity in the first year of operation, without activity report from a prior year nor a four-year history of previous projects, should address the request to provide these mandatory supporting documents for the operational capacity? The Section 7 of the call document states that, the “applicants must have the know-how, qualifications and resources to successfully implement the projects and contribute their share... May an entity participate as a beneficiary in two separate proposals under the same call? As indicated in the call text, specifically Section 13 on the cumulation of funding / no double funding, the participation in 2 different proposals under the same topic is permissibl... Which language must be used in the proposal? An applicant can submit a proposal in any official EU language (project abstract/summary should however always be in English). For reasons of efficiency, it is strongly advised to us... Would a project that collects a residue arising from food or beverage preparation and converts it into a new product fall within the scope of the call? The call supports actions to process, reprocess and valorise side streams from food production or surpluses into new products (section 2). This is, however, a means to achieve the ov... Items per page: 5 10 25 50 100 Showing 1–17 of 17 Get support Please read carefully all provisions below before the preparation of your application. For help related to this call, please contact please add a contact e-mail or url Funding & Tenders Portal FAQ – Submission of proposals. 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