Food4Sustainability (F4S) is interested in joining transnational consortia under the FutureFoodS Call 2025/2026, with a primary focus on Topic 1: Domestic food practices for enhancing sustainable and healthy diets, and synergies with Topic 3: Trust and transparency.

F4S offers strong applied, interdisciplinary, and territorial expertise that bridges research, innovation, and real-life implementation. Its contributions include the design and delivery of food literacy and behaviour change interventions for children, youth, and vulnerable households, translating scientific evidence into accessible and culturally adapted formats, and applying systems thinking to connect household food choices with health, environmental, and social impacts. F4S also brings solid experience in co-creation, participatory design, and gamified learning, supporting the development and testing of digital and physical educational tools in real-life settings such as schools, canteens, and community spaces.

In addition, F4S has a proven capacity to engage vulnerable groups and coordinate multi-stakeholder networks, working closely with municipalities, schools, NGOs, social organisations, and SMEs. The organisation contributes to living labs, pilots, and territorial case studies within a quadruple-helix approach, ensuring inclusiveness and social relevance.

Food4Sustainability (F4S) is a not-for-profit association structured as a collaborative laboratory dedicated to innovation in sustainable food production and consumption. Its concept and circular production systems approach were developed through a collaborative process with relevant national and international stakeholders and experts as part of BGI’s collaboration with the Idanha-a-Nova municipality and involved various partners from the EIT Digital, Climate KIC, EIT Food networks and Buy Better Food Campaign.

F4S aims at developing and testing innovative and sustainable approaches to the intensification of food production, building capacity of food systems ‘actors in the adoption of state-of-the-art solutions and providing education and experimentation to relevant communities of interest. F4S has 15 founding members, including 4 research and higher education institutions, 2 industrial companies, 5 tech-based SME, 3 producer-focused organizations and is led by BGI, an international start-up/scaleup accelerator. F4S leads the agri-food digital innovation Hub (SFT-EDIH) with over 20 players in the food value chain to support and collaborate in delivering digital services from farmers to consumers. F4S offers webinars, courses, and workshops through the F4S Academy to disseminate knowledge on sustainable practices and runs various projects aimed at transforming food systems and promoting digital innovation in agrifood. F4S has a laboratory dedicated to soil microbiota analysis based on NGS DNA sequencing.

F4S has been working in different national and international projects aiming to raise awareness on sustainable and healthy production and consumption of food. F4S is currently working with farmers, consumers, municipalities, schools, NGOs and SMEs, implementing capacity building projects, health and wellbeing programs, food education awareness campaigns and dynamization of short-supply chain in public and private canteens. Its interdisciplinary team has vast experience in food production, food processing, agribusiness, digital tools for agriculture, entrepreneurship, public health, nutrition, food policy and data science.