Annual Call for Projects
Ferments du Futur organizes annual Calls for Projects (CFP), with members overseeing the entire management process, from defining themes to promoting results. These CFPs offer significant benefits to members, notably through direct involvement in Project Committees that can include up to three private or associate members, as well as enabling faster and more cost-effective access to generated results.
The selected projects cover diverse topics, with recurring subjects including biopreservation and food safety, sensory optimization, nutrition-health impact, modeling and consumer perception.
Eligibility
- The call for projects is open to all French public research organizations, as well as technical institutes affiliated with ACTIA. Companies, including startups, are not eligible.
- To achieve this, transdisciplinary and collaborative approaches are strongly encouraged. The project's ability to lead to proof of concept or even protectable results (patents, know-how, etc.) at the end of the project (TRL 3-4 at the end of the project) will be examined during the selection process.
- Project coordinators have priority access to equipment funded by FdF at its innovation center (CI2F) in Orsay and on its distributed platforms (PFD) in seven INRAE units. They can contact FdF to check availability and equipment costs.
- FdF will be able to fund six projects with a maximum individual amount of €250,000 and a maximum duration of two years.
Multi-phase selection
Previous CFPs
CFP 2025
- 3 themes of Ferments du Futur covered
- 18 letters of intent received, 10 selected for the oral presentation, 6 finalists
- 18 public research and higher education institutions represented: AgroParisTech, CHU Dijon Bourgogne, CIHEAM-IAMM, CIRAD, CNRS, SUPMICROTECH-ENSMM, Grenoble INP – UGA, INRAE, INSA Toulouse – Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Toulouse, IRD, AgroSup Dijon, L’Institut Agro Montpellier, Université Bourgogne Europe, Université Clermont Auvergne, Université Grenoble Alpes, SEFOC’AL | Université Marie et Louis Pasteur, Université Paris-Saclay, UTBM, VetAgro Sup
CFP 2024
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4 axes et 2 themes of Ferments du Futur covered
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35 letters of intent received, 10 selected for the oral presentation, 6 finalists
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21 public research and higher education institutions represented: Université Bretagne Sud, ENSTA (Bretagne), Université Bretagne Occidentale, ENIB, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, INRAE, L’Institut Agro (Rennes, Montpellier), Université de Montpellier, CIRAD, Avignon Université, Université de La Réunion, IRD, CentraleSupélec, Université Paris-Saclay, AgroParisTech, AERIAL (ACTIA), Institut Pasteur, INRIA, Université Clermont Auvergne, VetAgroSup
CFP 2023
4 strategic axes of Ferments du Futur covered
29 letters of intent received, 10 selected for the oral presentation, 6 finalists
17 public research and higher education institutions represented:
- 17 tutelles de recherche et d’enseignement publics : AERIAL (IT ACTIA), AgroParisTech, CHU Dijon Bourgogne, CNRS, CentraleSupélec, ENS Rennes, IMT Atlantique, INRAE, INSA Rennes, Inria, INSERM, L’Institut Agro Dijon, L’Institut Agro Rennes, Université Bretagne Occidentale, Université Bretagne Sud, Université Bourgogne Europe, Université de Rennes, Université Paris-Saclay