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 large collaborative projects that set up 'living labs' — real-world networks of farms, forests, urban green spaces and other sites — where researchers, land managers, businesses and communities co-create and test practical solutions to improve soil health. Each project should establish several living labs across different countries, monitor soil health improvements, and identify top-performing sites that can become demonstration 'lighthouses' for others to learn from.
agriculture agritech · environmental monitoring · climate adaptation · biodiversity · sustainable materials · circular economy
Who wins this
A multi-partner consortium spanning research organisations, land managers, public bodies and other stakeholders across at least three different European countries, capable of running multiple real-life soil health living labs over several years.
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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
- Financial support to third parties (grants only, via calls or duly justified without a call) 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 implement the multi-actor approach and set up four to five living labs (composed typically of 10-20 experimental sites each) located in at least three different Member States and/or Associated Countries; living labs exclusively focused on urban areas are excluded from this topic.
- 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, IL, TR, UA, RS, MK, ME, AL, BA, XK, GE, AM, MD, TN, NZ
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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