Innovative biotechnologies to restore soil health and improve agricultural competitiveness and resilience
Supporting the implementation of the Soil Deal for Europe Mission · HORIZON-IA · TRL 5 to 6 · Needs partners
What this call funds
This call funds projects that develop and test biotechnology solutions, especially ones using soil microbiome science, to clean up polluted soils and restore soil health. The goal is to get these solutions to market readiness so farmers can use them to reduce chemical inputs, boost crop yields and build resilience against climate and biodiversity pressures. It supports work like bioremediation of contaminated soils, improving soil carbon and structure, and building clear pathways to bring these innovations to market.
biotechnology · agriculture agritech · environmental monitoring · circular economy · sustainable materials · climate adaptation
Who wins this
A multi actor consortium combining research organisations, biotech companies or startups, and farmer or agricultural stakeholders that wants to validate and scale a soil focused biotechnology solution from prototype to market ready product.
Could you win this call?
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The call in detail
- Indicative grant size
- €6.4M
- Funding model
- Lump sum. Paid per completed work package, with no financial reporting of actual costs
- Submission
- Two-stage submission (short outline first, full proposal if invited)
- Cut-off dates (2)
- 8 Apr 2027 · 14 Sep 2027
- Type of action
- HORIZON Innovation Actions
- Partners
- Required. The call asks for a consortium: a group applying together, typically 3+ organisations from 3+ countries.
- Also required
- Proposals must apply the multi actor approach involving academia, SMEs, farmers and other value chain actors, and must include collaboration activities with other funded projects under 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, 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 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 Eligible Conditions Proposals must apply the multi-actor approach. See definition of the multi-actor approach in the introduction to this 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 are described in Annex D of the Work Programme General Annexes. 5b. Evaluation and award: Submission and evaluation processes are 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 Eligible costs will take the form of a lump sum as defined in the Decision of 7 July 2021 authorising the use of lump sum contributions under the Horizon Europe Programme – the Framework Programme for Research and Innovation (2021-2027) – and in actions under the Research and Training Programme of the European Atomic Energy Community (2021-2025) [[This decision is available on the Funding and Tenders Portal, in the reference documents section for Horizon Europe, under ‘Simplified costs decisions’ or through this link: https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/docs/2021-2027/horizon/guidance/ls-decision_he_en.pdf ]]. described in Annex G of the Work Programme General Annexes. Specific conditions described in the topic conditions