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Funding opportunities from Danish Food and Bio Cluster
Valio Food 2.0 research program has an ecosystem of over 200 members. We now share to our ecosystem new funding opportunities from The Danish Food & Bio Cluster, that has two open research funding calls, and importantly, companies and universities outside Denmark are also eligible to apply.
Please note that the coordinator must be a Danish university or company.
For academic partners and companies: Pathways to Net-Zero: Futureproofing sustainable agri-food system
- Application deadline 30th September, 2026
- Grant: total pool of 12 million EUR, minimum 400.000 EUR (no maximum)
- Funding rate up to 75% is available for projects lasting up to four years.
- Main applicant must be a Danish university or company. Projects need to be for consortia. Priority is given to broad consortias covering the whole value chain and also with European participants.
- Eligible project topics: methane‑reducing technologies, plant‑rich food solutions, climate‑friendly crops, and biogenic carbon utilisation.
- More information and application
- Previous granted projects: see here
For academic partners and researchers: Plant2Food
- Abstract deadline June 19th, 2026
- This funding is for basic research within the scope of plant crops, special priority is given to the crops; fava beans, rapeseed and potatoes.
- In Call Round 2026, funding can be applied for within three different grant types, each of which has its own requirements for the project’s scope, consortium and budget.
- Main applicant must be a researcher from Aarhus University (DK), University of Copenhagen (DK), Danish Technical University (DK) or Wageningen University (NL)
- Grants: minimum of 4,5 million EUR, fundingrate 100%
- Previous funding projects: Plant2Food Funded Projects – Plant-based foods of the future