H2020 Food Scanner call opens
Applicants can now submit their bids to the Horizon 2020 Food Scanner challenge award.
The call has a prize of €1m and seeks to ‘improve the quality of citizens’ health and wellbeing by helping them to better monitor their food intake with the use of a food scanner’, according to the European Commission.
The call also intends to stimulate innovative thinking in both the industrial and academic research sectors and lead to ‘breakthrough solutions’ that will ‘drive […] European industry forward’. It is anticipated that the winning technology or technologies will enable citizens to gather key data regarding their food consumption.
The Food Scanner Horizon Prize is one of five inducement prizes announced by the Commission across a range of themes. The other awards are: ‘Materials for clean air’, which has prize money of €3m; ‘Better use of antibiotics’, €1m; and ‘Breaking the optical transmission barriers’ and ‘Collaborative spectrum sharing’, both having €500,000 available.
Applications to the Societal Challenges call can be submitted until 9 March 2015.
