A variety of funding sources have contributed to the activities of the Sustainable Food Processing Alliance.

About the MUSE Explore Fund

The Sustainable Food Processing Alliance was funded by the MUSE Explore program during 2018.

EXPLORE supports individual incoming and outgoing mobility opportunities to pursue new international collaboration projects led by PhD students, notably in preparation for their post-thesis professional projects. The program is open to professors, research-professors, and researchers (tenured or under contract during the mobility period). Engineers, technicians, support staff (tenured or under contract during the mobility period) may apply (outgoing mobility only for the latter). EXPLORE also supports collective mobility opportunities to develop new international collaboration (pedagogical, academic and/or scientific, partnership).

About the Partner University Fund

The Sustainable Food Processing Alliance has been funded by the Partner University Fund (PUF) from 2012-2015.

PUF was established in May 2007 under the auspices of the FACE Foundation in New York City. Thanks to the generosity of private American donors and contributions from the French government, PUF launched its first call for projects in September 2007 with the objective of supporting innovative and sustainable partnerships between French and US institutions of research and higher education. With close to 70 applications representing more than 130 French and American universities and research institutes, the results of the first call for projects confirmed both the readiness of institutions on both sides of the Atlantic to build a new generation of academic partnerships, and the fit of PUF has an innovative means for achieving this goal."