Fondation Rovaltain - Supporting the development of innovative healthy, nutritious and ethical foods together with preserving biodiversity
Intensive agricultural practices, the use of pesticides and the effects of global warming have had dramatic consequences on biodiversity and soil quality over the last decades. As a result, a significant decline in agricultural production quantity and quality is expected in the forthcoming years. Besides that, the use of additives and other allergens in processed foods has led to the development of numerous health issues, including many types of food intolerances and allergies.
How can we protect both human and ecosystem health when it comes to food production ?
Together with devoting efforts to rethinking and revising the agricultural landscape and practices, it is also necessary to support the development of innovative applicable solutions able to provide healthy food for humans and to preserve the ecosystems.
In this context, the aim of the Call for Proposals 2023-2 is to support the development of innovative healthy, nutritious and ethical foods while preserving biodiversity.
This Call for Proposals issued by Rovaltain will finance one project of 2- or 3-years duration with a total maximum budget of 320,000 euros.
This call targets projects that address one or more of the following elements:
- Enhance biodiversity among neglected crop species of high nutritional value (quinoa, amaranth, etc).
- Develop food innovations without gluten and additives.
Eligibility of proposals - Projects based on biofortification will not be eligible.
- Projects must have one or several clearly identified objectives and their potential role in contributing to the development of future research projects (leverage effect) should be addressed.
- Projects must clearly present the environmental and societal goals, including an international scope to allow access to the results of this research by the populations of the most vulnerable countries.
- Projects carried out within or in close collaboration with public research laboratories are welcome.
- Projects may be led by a single team or involve several partner teams. The call for research projects is open to French research teams from higher education and research institutions, research organisations and public institutions with a research mission as well as non-profit accredited Social and Solidarity Economy companies. The concept of social and solidarity economy ESS*1 refers to a set of companies organised in the form of cooperatives, mutual societies, associations, or foundations, whose internal functioning and activities are based on a principle of solidarity and social utility. The social and solidarity economy acquired a real legal status with the French law of 31 July 2014. National or international partners are welcome. Partners of another nature are also allowed, provided that they bring clearly demonstrated added value in the project.
- For ESS companies, the research and development program must be conducted in collaboration with public research laboratories. The funds allocated to the project will be paid to the project leader; he/she will manage the project’s funds for the entire collaboration and will compile and submit the scientific and financial reports at the end of the project.
- The project leader must not be a member of the Rovaltain Foundation (board of directors, scientific council, etc).
- The duration of the project, including the preparation and submission of the final report, must not exceed 36 months.
- The financial support provided by the Rovaltain Foundation will not exceed 320,000 euros.
- The project leader must participate in the promotion and demonstration activities organised by the Rovaltain Foundation during the project period and during the 12 months following its closure (maximum 2 solicitations).
- Proposals and reports must be written in English.
SEND YOUR PROPOSAL
Download proposal template and send it to contact@fcsrovaltain.org before August 21th in an email entitled
“RT2E2023_2_Food_Health”
