The European Food Safety Authority invites tenders for its creation of open access EU food composition database and related datasets call. The tenderer will define the quality standards for the inclusion of data into the open access European food composition database and environmental footprint of food database then collect food composition and environmental footprint data of foods.
Applicants must be on EFSA’s list of competent organisations, which includes universities, research institutes and other governmental or private bodies based in EU member states. They must apply as a consortium.
The contract up to €500,000 for up to three years.
Link to the call documents: https://www.efsa.europa.eu/en/art36grants/article36/gpefsadata202102-creation-open-access-eu-food-composition-database-eu-fcdb
The deadline for submission of proposals is Wednesday 15th September 2021.
This call for proposals, is in a new type of grant based on achievements of results/deliverables. The main objective is development, publication and maintenance of two databases.