EU-Africa Union – food safety

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 (single entities) should visit FS4Africa’s website (https://foodsafety4africa.eu/open-call/) for any updates and the FAQ section available on the opencalls.fund as well as on the project website.

Applications received through any other channel 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 be discarded.

Throughout the entire process, the confidentiality of Applicants’ (single entities) 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 2 Kit documents.

Evaluation:

Once the Open Call is closed (August 31st, 2026, 17:00 CET) an eligibility check will be carried out by the FS4Africa Advisory Board to discard applications that do not meet the eligibility requirements.

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.

FS4Africa Open Call 2 (OC2) aims to provide financial support to third parties (innovation hubs) and will only accept applications from single entities per proposal (no Consortia allowed). Applicants (single entities) are expected to provide mentoring and accelerating innovative business concepts, including social innovation and upscaling.

The project will select at least 5 sub-projects in total providing Financial Support to Third Parties (FSTP), as a mechanism to maximise the project’s impact and accelerate network expansion.