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The Food Authenticity Network is delighted to be a Partner in a new initiative: The European Food fraud Community of Practice: From Outset to Operation(EFF-CoP).

With €2 million funding under Horizon Europe Coordination and Support Actions, the EFF-CoP is led by Professor Saskia van Ruth, Professor of Food Supply Chain Integrity at UCD School of Agriculture and Food Science.

This new three-year project, starting in January 2025, will bring together a community of scientists, regulators, small- and large-sized businesses, laboratories and other stakeholders to create a research and innovation ecosystem to enhance food authenticity and traceability.

A page will be created on this website to link to the EFF-CoP website so that FAN members can keep abreast of progress.

In addition, you can become a member of the EFF-CoP community by emailing effcop@ucd.ie ✍️ and you can follow the EFF-CoP on LinkedIn.

Horizon Europe Cluster 6 Work Programme 2021-2022 on Food, Bioeconomy, Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment includes two proposed calls related to food authenticty:

• HORIZON-CL6-2022-FARM2FORK-01-04: Innovative solutions to prevent adulteration of food bearing quality labels: focus on organic food and geographical indications p199
• HORIZON-CL6-2022-FARM2FORK-01-11: Effective systems for authenticity and traceability in the food system p217

Further information can be found at: wp-9-food-bioeconomy-natural-resources-agriculture-and-environment_horizon-2021-2022_en.pdf (europa.eu)

The commission are also hosting a number of information days that run until 16 July for those who might be interested in preparing a proposal. Homepage | Horizon Europe Info Days 2021 (horizon-europe-infodays2021.eu)

This site also contains a document library under each topic with useful information.

For UK specific information visit: https://www.gov.uk/business-finance-support/horizon-2020-business-grants-uk

Under the Horizon Europe programme, which focuses on the future funding of food and agriculture research by the European Commission, investment in food research and innovation will see an increase. The Commission has earmarked €10 billion for the food sector, with an emphasis on food safety, which has €1.68 billion confirmed. This embraces quite a wide area of research which could include the safety issues arising out of food fraud.

Read more about the programme on FoodNavigator.