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EIC funding
The funding supports Vivici’s work to scale dairy proteins produced through precision fermentation. It is directly relevant to commercial food biomanufacturing and the alternative protein sector.
European Innovation Council
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Grants, investment and funding events across cell agriculture worldwide. Free to read: rounds closed, grants awarded, co-founder searches, investor and pitch events, and every call whose deadline has passed or falls inside the next 60 days.
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WEEK OF 10 AUGUST 2026
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Series B extension
The financing is for The Protein Brewery, making it directly relevant to food biomanufacturing and alternative proteins. The round is reported alongside the company’s FDA GRAS refiling and its plans for the US market.
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LC-SFS-03-2018 Microbiome applications for sustainable food systems
The call supports concrete microbiome applications for food production and processing, including new products, services and processes. Its focus on microbial systems, food-chain sustainability and circular uses of food waste makes it relevant to precision fermentation and food biomanufacturing research.
European Commission · European Union
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Developing sustainable and competitive land-based protein crop systems and value chains
This call is relevant to the wider alternative-protein sector because it supports sustainable European plant-protein production and associated food and feed value chains. Its focus on novel protein crops, resilient supply chains and collaboration across the value chain may be applicable to organisations developing plant-based protein ingredients and foods.
European Commission · European Union and Associated Countries
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Filling knowledge gaps on the nutritional, safety, allergenicity and environmental assessment of alternative proteins and dietary shift
The topic directly addresses alternative proteins, including evidence gaps around nutrition, safety, allergenicity and environmental assessment. These assessment areas are relevant to organisations developing cultivated foods and other food-biomanufacturing products.
European Commission · European Union
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Alternative proteins for food and feed
The call directly addresses alternative proteins for food and feed, placing it within the wider alternative protein sector. It is therefore relevant to Cell-Ag’s coverage of cultivated food and food biomanufacturing.
European Commission · European Union
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Environmental Sustainability
The programme could support engineering research on circular bioeconomy systems, sustainable manufacturing and resource flows relevant to cultivated food and precision fermentation. Its interest in life-cycle assessment and holistic environmental sustainability also makes it applicable to evaluating food biomanufacturing systems.
U.S. National Science Foundation · United States · Deadline 2026-09-30
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EIC Pathfinder Challenge: Precision Nutrition
The challenge covers fermented foods, food ingredients, processing technologies and the reformulation of new food products. Cultivated food and precision-fermentation projects could be relevant where they investigate nutrition alongside effects on the human gut microbiome and glycans.
European Commission · European Union
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Proteins from alternative and unconventional sources
This topic directly concerns proteins derived from alternative and unconventional sources. It is relevant to the wider alternative-protein field covered by cell agriculture.
European Commission · European Union
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FOOD 2030 - Empowering cities as agents of food system transformation
This call focuses broadly on city-led food-system transformation. Cultivated food and alternative-protein projects could plausibly fit within that food-system scope.
European Commission · European Union
