Grant opportunity
FCI4Africa Open Call 1
FCI4Africa is funding single-applicant sub-projects that test, validate, or develop tools, datasets, business concepts, and technologies for fair, sustainable, climate-neutral, and health-promoting food trade systems in Africa.
- Funder
- FCI4Africa
- Application deadline
- Application deadline: Jun 30, 2026
- Award
- Up to EUR 50,000 per sub-project; total call budget EUR 400,000
- Applicant
- Research and technology stakeholders
- Discipline
- Agriculture, Food & Environment
- Region
- Africa
- Posted
- May 21, 2026
Call summary
Overview
Open Call 1 supports research and technology stakeholders whose sub-projects contribute to FCI4Africa objectives around fair, sustainable, climate-neutral, and health-promoting trade systems in the African agricultural sector.
Who can apply
- Only single applicants are allowed; consortia are not eligible for this call.
- Eligible applicants include universities, research institutes, technology developers, R&D SMEs, innovation-driven start-ups, and other multidisciplinary actors.
- Applicants should propose work that can test, validate, enhance, or create business concepts, tools, or datasets aligned with FCI4Africa objectives.
What it supports
- Testing, validating, and enhancing existing FCI4Africa business concepts and tools, including outputs developed through project use cases.
- Developing ideas, tools, or datasets that address FCI4Africa challenges and can contribute to project objectives and market access.
- Generating data sets that refine tools, methodologies, business concepts, and dissemination lessons.
Funding and duration
Eight sub-projects will be selected. The total budget is EUR 400,000, with up to EUR 50,000 available for each third party.
Application deadline
Application deadline: Jun 30, 2026
How to apply
Submit the proposal digitally through the official opencalls.fund platform before 30 June 2026 at 17:00 CEST/Brussels time.
Call details
About the opportunity
Open Call 1 supports research and technology stakeholders whose sub-projects contribute to FCI4Africa objectives around fair, sustainable, climate-neutral, and health-promoting trade systems in the African agricultural sector.
FCI4Africa lists this opportunity for Research and technology stakeholders, Agriculture, Food & Environment, Africa.
This listing is written for researchers, students, universities, NGOs, research teams, policy professionals and academic institutions searching for Agriculture, Food & Environment grants, fellowships, scholarships, conferences, workshops and funding opportunities in Africa contexts.
Eligibility
Only single applicants are allowed; consortia are not eligible for this call.
Eligible applicants include universities, research institutes, technology developers, R&D SMEs, innovation-driven start-ups, and other multidisciplinary actors.
Applicants should propose work that can test, validate, enhance, or create business concepts, tools, or datasets aligned with FCI4Africa objectives.
Funding and benefits
Eight sub-projects will be selected. The total budget is EUR 400,000, with up to EUR 50,000 available for each third party.
Themes and supported activities
Testing, validating, and enhancing existing FCI4Africa business concepts and tools, including outputs developed through project use cases.
Developing ideas, tools, or datasets that address FCI4Africa challenges and can contribute to project objectives and market access.
Generating data sets that refine tools, methodologies, business concepts, and dissemination lessons.
Deadline and timeline
Application deadline: Application deadline: Jun 30, 2026.
Applicants should confirm the exact deadline time, time zone, required documents, portal steps and any institutional approvals on the official call page before submitting.
How to apply
Submit the proposal digitally through the official opencalls.fund platform before 30 June 2026 at 17:00 CEST/Brussels time.
Before applying, check eligibility rules, budgets, attachments, page limits, partner requirements, cost-share conditions and whether the opportunity uses an expression of interest, full proposal, registration or nomination stage.