EU Grants to improve food waste measurement & prevention in HOSPITALITY - deadline 20/09/2022

The EU is launching a EUR 2,250,000 call for proposals to improve measurement of food waste and help implement food waste prevention in hospitality.

Objectives: The aim of the call focuses on supporting stakeholders in the hospitality and food services’ sector including restaurants and hotels in both the public and private sphere. Since 2016, HOTREC has been advocating within the EU platform on Food Losses & Food Waste (and continues to do so) for tailored measures to support hospitality establishments to minimise food waste. The launch of this call for proposals is good news acknowledging that businesses lack capacity and resources to do so.

Scope: A wide range of activities are eligible to be supported by the grants offered under this call for proposals, provided that they can be linked to the above objective. The grants would cover integration of food waste prevention in business operations such as (non-exhaustive list):

• demand forecasting to match supply and demand, including coordination between operations/departments (e.g. bookings, purchasing, kitchen, transport…)
• food procurement and purchase planning
• food service operations: cooking, serving, meal presentation, consumption (kitchen waste, serving loss waste, plate leftovers)
• food handling and storage (both cold and cooked food), inventory management
• menu design, portion sizes, pricing strategy
• promoting consumer awareness (e.g. posters, information cards on tables, menus) and behavioral change (e.g. doggy bags)
• training of staff
• redistribution of surplus food
• food waste monitoring and reporting.
  Additionally, the grants could also cover other type of actions such as the elaboration and implementation of food waste prevention guidelines, food waste monitoring programs, communication materials, development of new business models.
  

Budget: Project budgets (EU contribution) are expected to range between EUR 100.000 and EUR 300.000 per project, but this does not preclude the submission/selection of proposals requesting other amounts.

Eligibility: In order to be eligible, the applicants (beneficiaries and affiliated entities) must:

• be legal entities (public or private bodies)
• be established in one of the eligible countries, i.e.: EEA and EU member states.
• The call is open to both mono-beneficiaries as well as to multi-beneficiaries (consortium).

Deadline: 20 September 2022, 1700 CET.

Full call document available: .

More information: Funding & tenders (europa.eu)