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  • Publication | 2025
Finalizing FOSC Outcomes of the Funded Projects
Global Food and Nutrition Security

FOSC, the ERA-NET Cofund on Food Systems and Climate was a 7 years programme initiative to help feed a growing population by 2050 while containing global warming within 1.5 or 2°C. It  brought Europe and Africa together to carry out joint R&I projects on these themes, including training activities, exchanges and beneficial pooling of equipment and knowledge. FOSC was initiated as a continuation of the bicontinental LEAP-Agri and was supported by the JPI Facce (Joint Programming Initiative on Agriculture, Food Security and Climate Change) and Directorate on Research and Innovation of the European Commission. 

FOSC can be summed up in figures: 17 co-funded projects and 5 nationally-funded projects, each involving at least two European and two African partners, a total of 23 million Euros in R&I funding, 141 R&I teams mobilized, a consortium of 29 partners from 20 countries, training sessions on areas of shared interest and disciplinary for students and researchers in the context of bilateral exchanges, joint multi-project valorisation, etc. 

Beyond the figures, FOSC has been a platform for the exchange of harmonized R&I funding practices and  international research standards, a place for exchanges and programming on subjects of joint European-African interest. 

The brochure communicates the results of each project of the 2019 call and the 2021.