Co-creating solutions for soil health in Living Labs
Research and Innovation and other actions to support the implementation of Mission 'A Soil Deal for Europe' · HORIZON-RIA · Needs partners
What this call funds
This call funds research projects that set up networks of living labs where farmers, scientists, public bodies and other local actors work together to test and improve practices for healthier soil. Each project should establish four to five living labs across at least three countries, create baselines and monitoring for soil health, and identify high performing sites that could become demonstration lighthouses. The goal is to close the gap between soil science and real world practice, improve soil health outcomes, and feed lessons back into policy.
agriculture agritech · environmental monitoring · climate adaptation · biodiversity · sustainable materials · regional development
Who wins this
A multidisciplinary consortium of research organisations, land managers, public administrations and civil society actors from at least three Member States or Associated Countries that can coordinate several living labs focused on real world soil health challenges.
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The call in detail
- Indicative grant size
- €12M
- Funding model
- Budget-based. Reimbursement of actual eligible costs
- Submission
- Single-stage submission (full proposal at once)
- Partners
- Required. The call asks for a consortium: from 3 countries.
- Support to third parties
- Beneficiaries may provide financial support to third parties, up to a maximum of EUR 200,000 per third party, to enable active involvement of stakeholders such as farmers, businesses or civil society in the living labs.
- Also required
- Proposals must apply the multi actor approach and set up four to five living labs located in at least three different Member States or Associated Countries, with about three grants expected to be funded from a total budget of 36 million euros.
- Eligible countries (45)
- Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Norway, Iceland, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Israel, Türkiye, Ukraine, Serbia, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Georgia, Armenia, Moldova, Tunisia, New Zealand
Read the full conditions from the official call ›
General conditions General conditions 1. Admissibility conditions: described in Annex A and Annex E of the Horizon Europe Work Programme General Annexes Proposal page limits and layout: described in Part B of the Application Form available in the Submission System 2. Eligible countries: described in Annex B of the Work Programme General Annexes A number of non-EU/non-Associated Countries that are not automatically eligible for funding have made specific provisions for making funding available for their participants in Horizon Europe projects. See the information in the Horizon Europe Programme Guide. Proposals must apply the multi-actor approach. See definition of the multi-actor approach in the introduction to this Mission. 3. Other eligibility conditions: described in Annex B of the Work Programme General Annexes 4. Financial and operational capacity and exclusion: described in Annex C of the Work Programme General Annexes Award criteria, scoring and thresholds are described in Annex D of the Work Programme General Annexes Submission and evaluation processes are described in Annex F of the Work Programme General Annexes and the Online Manual Indicative timeline for evaluation and grant agreement: described in Annex F of the Work Programme General Annexes Beneficiaries may provide financial support to third parties (FSTP). The support to third parties can only be provided in the form of grants (further to calls or, if duly justified, without a call for proposals). The maximum amount to be granted to each third party is EUR 200 000, to allow for the active involvement of stakeholders, including farmers, businesses or civil society, in the living labs to deliver on the actions described under the scope. 6. Legal and financial set-up of the grants: described in Annex G of the Work Programme General Annexes Specific conditions 7. Specific conditions: described in the specific topic of the Work Programme
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