1. Submission
The call documents can be found on the UP-RISE website in English and French (https://www.uprisefoodsafety.org/call-text-for-third-parties/), and consist of
- the terms of the call
- the questionnaire.
Applicants are invited to apply by sending the completed questionnaire by e-mail to
UP-RISE@ugent.be and to the contacts of the country of application (see e-mail contacts under 7.1 in terms of the call). Please mark “Application to UP-RISE call + country” in the subject of your e-mail.
Please note that only one application per processor is allowed and only complete applications will be considered admissible. Non-eligible and non-admissible applicants will not be considered.
Applications will be considered complete if the questionnaire is fully completed. Questionnaires completed by computer are preferable, but handwritten and scanned version are also possible, please make sure they are readable.
In the questionnaires, please ensure that you provide contact details that you monitor regularly. The contact details will allow the UP-RISE project team (1) to contact applicants for further questions or requests for additional information or documentation and (2) to organise in-depth interviews and/or on-site visits (see Section 8, the Preselection phase).
The deadline for submitting an application to this call is the 6 December 2024 at 23:59 CET.
2. Selection process
OPEN CALL FOR PROPOSALS
On 7 October 2024, the UP-RISE open call for fermented food processors will be launched in the five African Union member states target of the UP-RISE project, namely Benin, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa. The open call will be published in English and French through EU Funding & Tenders Portal, UP-RISE project website and consortium partners websites.
To ensure the dissemination of the call, the UP-RISE project team will be invited to actively identify informal market processors and invite them to apply, as well as notify of the launch of this call processors having taken part in previous survey rounds.
The application period will span over a period of two months. The call will close on 6 December 2024 23:59 CET
https://www.uprisefoodsafety.org/call-text-for-third-parties