Joint demonstration of solutions to build soil resilience to extreme weather events and support food security
Joint Call between the Soil Deal for Europe Mission and the Adaptation to Climate Change Mission · HORIZON-IA · TRL 6–8 · Needs partners
What this call funds
This call funds projects that develop and demonstrate practical solutions to help soil withstand extreme weather like floods, droughts and heatwaves, so farms can keep producing food reliably. It expects real-world demonstration in multiple regions across different countries, tools to monitor and manage soil health, and methods that other regions can later copy. The goal is to protect food security while building climate resilience in agriculture and land management.
climate adaptation · agriculture agritech · environmental monitoring · food systems · biodiversity · regional development
Who wins this
A multi-country consortium of research organisations, farmer groups, local/regional authorities and other agri-food stakeholders that can jointly demonstrate soil resilience solutions across at least three regions and prepare replication in others.
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The call in detail
- Indicative grant size
- €10M
- Funding model
- Budget-based — reimbursement of actual eligible costs
- Submission
- Single-stage submission (full proposal at once)
- Type of action
- HORIZON Innovation Actions
- Partners
- Required. The call asks for a consortium — at least 3 partners, from 3 countries.
- Also required
- Demonstration activities must take place in at least 3 regional/local authorities in 3 different Member States or Associated Countries, and proposals should identify at least 3 replicating regions in 3 different countries; projects must apply the multi-actor approach and engage with the Mission Adaptation's Implementation Platform and Community of Practice.
- 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 1. Admissibility conditions: Proposal page limit and layout 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. 3. Other Eligibility Conditions Proposals must apply the multi-actor approach. See definition of the multi-actor approach in the introduction of the Mission Soil work programme part. 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. 5a. Evaluation and award: Award criteria, scoring and thresholds described in Annex D of the Work Programme General Annexes. 5b. Evaluation and award: Submission and evaluation processes described in Annex F of the Work Programme General Annexes and the Online Manual. 5c. Evaluation and award: Indicative timeline for evaluation and grant agreement described in Annex F of the Work Programme General Annexes. 6. Legal and financial set-up of the grants described in Annex G of the Work Programme General Annexes. Specific conditions described in the topic conditions
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