Horizon Europe - Cluster 6: ‘Food, Bioeconomy, Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment’
Open Calls
Destination 1 - Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services
2025-2026
- HORIZON-CL6-2025-01-BIODIV-01: Additional activities for the European Biodiversity Partnership: Biodiversa+
- Interested partners: Róbert Kanka, Ján Černecký, ILE-SAS
- Mihai Adamescu, UNIBUC
- HORIZON-CL6-2025-01-BIODIV-02: Strengthening the capacity of citizen science in biodiversity observation
- Interested partners: Róbert Kanka, ILE-SAS
- Mihai Adamescu, UNIBUC
- HORIZON-CL6-2025-01-BIODIV-03: Strengthening taxonomic approaches for biodiversity
- Interested partners: Róbert Kanka, Jozef Kollár, Andrej Palaj, ILE-SAS
- Tamás Rédei, Melinda Halassy, HUN-REN
- Jean-Luc Legras, INRAE
- HORIZON-CL6-2025-01-BIODIV-04: Large-scale in situ biodiversity observations for better understanding of biodiversity state, drivers of its decline and impacts of policies
- Restoring ecosystems for resilient society and economy
- Interested partners: Róbert Kanka, Ján Černecký, ILE-SAS
- Balint Czucz, NINA
- Mihai Adamescu, UNIBUC
- Kinga Krauze, ECRE PAS
- HORIZON-CL6-2025-01-BIODIV-05: Assessing and modelling ecosystems’ dynamic processes to guide restoration activities and to improve models used for climate and land-use policies
- Interested partners: Róbert Kanka, Ľuboš Halada, ILE-SAS
- Tamás Rédei, Melinda Halassy, HUN-REN
- Balint Czucz, NINA
- Mihai Adamescu, UNIBUC
- Anouschka Hof, WENR
- HORIZON-CL6-2025-01-BIODIV-06: Assessing and modelling socio-economic impacts of nature restoration
- Interested partners: Róbert Kanka, Ľuboš Halada, ILE-SAS
- Mihai Adamescu, UNIBUC
- HORIZON-CL6-2025-01-BIODIV-07: Integrated and coordinated approaches for coral reefs and associated ecosystems (mangroves and seagrass beds) conservation, restoration, and adaptation potential
- Transformative change towards a nature positive economy
- Interested partners: Mihai Adamescu, UNIBUC
- HORIZON-CL6-2025-01-BIODIV-08: Strengthening pathways to alternative socio-economic models for continuous improvement of biodiversity
- Interested partners: Balint Czucz, NINA
- Mihai Adamescu, UNIBUC
- Martin Drechsler, UFZ
- HORIZON-CL6-2025-01-BIODIV-09: Understanding the perceptions of and improving communication on the biodiversity crisis and nature restoration benefits
- Biodiversity friendly practices in agriculture
- HORIZON-CL6-2025-01-BIODIV-10: Supporting the implementation of nature restoration measures for the social, economic and environmental sustainability of farming systems
- Interested partners: Balint Czucz, NINA
- Mihai Adamescu, UNIBUC
- HORIZON-CL6-2025-01-BIODIV-11: Towards breeding for resilience: enhancing multi-stress tolerance in crops
- Interested partners: Kelly Houston, James Hutton Institute
- Sara Bergonzi, WENR
2025-2026
- HORIZON-CL6-2025-02-FARM2FORK-01: Additional activities for the European partnership on accelerating farming systems transition – agroecology living labs and research infrastructures
- Interested partners: Jean-Luc Legras, INRAE
- HORIZON-CL6-2025-02-FARM2FORK-02: Additional activities for the European partnership on animal health and welfare
- HORIZON-CL6-2025-02-FARM2FORK-03: Overcoming the barriers for scaling up circular water management in agriculture
- HORIZON-CL6-2025-02-FARM2FORK-04: Enhancing the EU plant protein production to bolster the resilience of agricultural systems and EU self-sufficiency in plant protein feed
- HORIZON-CL6-2025-02-FARM2FORK-05: Emerging and future risks to plant health
- HORIZON-CL6-2025-02-FARM2FORK-06: Developing innovative phytosanitary measures for plant health – focus on systems approach for pest risk management
- HORIZON-CL6-2025-02-FARM2FORK-07: Improving grassland management in European livestock farming systems
- HORIZON-CL6-2025-02-FARM2FORK-08: Fostering animal breeding and genetics for climate change adaptation and mitigation, improved robustness and resilience
- HORIZON-CL6-2025-02-FARM2FORK-09: Improving on-farm innovations for transformation and storage of food and non-food products
- Interested partners: INRAE
- HORIZON-CL6-2025-02-FARM2FORK-10: Exploring the potential of controlled environment agriculture (CEA) 90
- Enabling sustainable fisheries and aquaculture
- HORIZON-CL6-2025-02-FARM2FORK-11: Diversifying aquaculture production with emphasis on low-trophic species
- HORIZON-CL6-2025-02-FARM2FORK-12: Towards modern, integrated, and effective fisheries monitoring, control and surveillance (MCS) systems in Europe
- Transforming food systems for health, sustainability and inclusion
- HORIZON-CL6-2025-02-FARM2FORK-13: Nutrition and Mental Health
- Interested partners: Nicole de Roos, Yannick Vermeiren, Elske Brouwer-Brolsma, Alida Melse-Boonstra, Edith Feskens, WENR
- HORIZON-CL6-2025-02-FARM2FORK-14: Raising citizen awareness on alternative proteins, including those derived from biotechnology
- HORIZON-CL6-2025-02-FARM2FORK-15: Nutrients produced by microbes capturing CO2 from the air, with the support of biotechnology
- HORIZON-CL6-2025-02-FARM2FORK-16: Making food systems more resilient to food safety risks through the deployment of technological solutions
- HORIZON-CL6-2025-02-FARM2FORK-17: Research and innovation for food waste prevention and reduction at household level through harmonised measurement and monitoring
- HORIZON-CL6-2025-02-FARM2FORK-18: Additional activities of the European partnership on sustainable food systems for people, planet and climate
- Targeted international cooperation
- HORIZON-CL6-2025-02-FARM2FORK-19: Developing agroecology living labs and lighthouses under the Food and Nutrition Security and Sustainable Agriculture (FNSSA) partnership
- HORIZON-CL6-2025-02-FARM2FORK-20: Developing a joint AU-EU Agricultural Knowledge and Innovation System (AKIS) supporting the Food and Nutrition Security and Sustainable Agriculture (FNSSA) partnership
- HORIZON-CL6-2025-02-FARM2FORK-21: Nutrition in emergency situations – Ready-to-use Supplementary Food (RUSF) and Ready-to-use Therapeutic Food (RUTF)
2025-2026
- HORIZON-CL6-2025-01-CIRCBIO-01: Novel circular business models to enable the just transition to a sustainable and circular economy
- HORIZON-CL6-2025-01-CIRCBIO-02: Assessment of ecodesign requirements and development of testing methods for products prioritised under the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products regulation
- HORIZON-CL6-2025-01-CIRCBIO-03: Product Environmental Footprint (PEF) of priority product groups of relevance for the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR) and other policies
- HORIZON-CL6-2025-01-CIRCBIO-04: Development and testing of Extended Producer Responsibility schemes (EPR) within the priority Circular Economy Action Plan value chains
- HORIZON-CL6-2025-01-CIRCBIO-05: Consumption patterns and environmental awareness as enablers of transition to circular economy
- HORIZON-CL6-2025-01-CIRCBIO-06: Open Topic: Innovative actions are paving the way for sustainable and circular transformation among SMEs
- HORIZON-CL6-2025-01-CIRCBIO-07: Micro-indicators for the transition to sustainable and circular economy
- HORIZON-CL6-2025-01-CIRCBIO-08: Demonstration, deployment and upscaling of circular systemic solutions in cities and regions (Circular Cities and Regions Initiative)
- Innovating for sustainable bio-based systems, biotechnology and the bioeconomy
- HORIZON-CL6-2025-01-CIRCBIO-09: Bioprospecting and optimized production of the terrestrial natural products: new opportunities for bio-based sectors
- HORIZON-CL6-2025-01-CIRCBIO-10: Unleashing the potential and advancing the impact of the digitalization/AI of the bio-based value chains
- HORIZON-CL6-2025-01-CIRCBIO-11: Support to the EU Biotechnology and Biomanufacturing Initiative: scoping action
- HORIZON-CL6-2025-01-CIRCBIO-12: Demonstration of reduced energy use and optimised flexible energy supply for industrial bio-based systems
- HORIZON-CL6-2025-01-CIRCBIO-13: Harmonizing composting plants performances in Europe
- HORIZON-CL6-2025-01-CIRCBIO-14: Reconstructing areas affected by conflicts: the role of the bio-based solutions
- Innovating for blue bioeconomy and biotechnology value chains
- Interested partners: Balint Czucz, NINA
- HORIZON-CL6-2025-01-CIRCBIO-15: Bioprospecting and optimised production of marine/aquatic natural products in the omics & artificial intelligence era
- Safeguarding and sustainably innovating the multiple functions of EU forests
- HORIZON-CL6-2025-01-CIRCBIO-16: European partnership: Forests and Forestry for a Sustainable Future
2025-2026
- HORIZON-CL6-2025-01-ZEROPOLLUTION-01: Innovative and advanced monitoring and modelling systems for revised air quality policies
- HORIZON-CL6-2025-01-ZEROPOLLUTION-02: Environmental sustainability criteria for primary agricultural crops for industrial bio-based systems
- HORIZON-CL6-2025-01-ZEROPOLLUTION-03: Substances of concern and emerging pollutants from bio-based industries and products: mapping and replacement
- HORIZON-CL6-2025-01-ZEROPOLLUTION-04: Environmental biotechnology applications in service of restoration of polluted ecosystems
- HORIZON-CL6-2025-01-ZEROPOLLUTION-05: Towards a comprehensive European strategy to assess and monitor aquatic litter including plastic and microplastic pollution
- HORIZON-CL6-2025-01-ZEROPOLLUTION-06: Cumulative impacts of marine pollution on marine organisms and ecosystems
- HORIZON-CL6-2025-01-ZEROPOLLUTION-07: Accelerating the uptake of solutions to monitor and sustainably manage water, nutrients and other natural resources in agriculture
- HORIZON-CL6-2025-01-ZEROPOLLUTION-08: Reducing pollution from the food and drink industries
2025-2026
- HORIZON-CL6-2025-02-CLIMATE-01: The ocean-climate-biodiversity nexus and marine carbon dioxide removal (mCDR)
- HORIZON-CL6-2025-02-CLIMATE-02: The ocean-climate-biodiversity-people nexus: uncovering safe operating space for safeguarding the integrity and health of the global ocean
- HORIZON-CL6-2025-02-CLIMATE-03: Understanding and managing medium and longer-term challenges and opportunities for agriculture from shifting climatic zones
- Interested partners: Dr Antonius G.T. Schut, Prof Martin K. van Ittersum, WENR
- HORIZON-CL6-2025-02-CLIMATE-04: Innovative solutions for monitoring, reporting and verification of non-CO2 greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture
- HORIZON-CL6-2025-02-CLIMATE-05: Strengthening the resilience of water systems and water sector to climate and global socio-economic change impacts
- Interested partners: Raffaele Vignola, WENR
- Mihai Adamescu, UNIBUC
- HORIZON-CL6-2025-02-CLIMATE-06: Additional activities for the European Partnership Water Security for the Planet (Water4All)
- Interested partners: Mihai Adamescu, UNIBUC
2025-2026
- HORIZON-CL6-2025-02-COMMUNITIES-01: Adapting to and mitigating demographic trends in rural areas through evidence-based planning and innovative solutions
- Interested partners: Tim Pittaway, James Hutton Institute
- HORIZON-CL6-2025-02-COMMUNITIES-02: Exploring and improving access to housing in rural areas and developing the houses and villages of the future
- Interested partners: Clara Savary, INRAE
- HORIZON-CL6-2025-02-COMMUNITIES-03: Research and Innovation solutions for resilient coastal communities in the Atlantic
- HORIZON-CL6-2025-02-COMMUNITIES-04: Creating urban co-creation spaces for driving sustainable food system transformation
2025-2026
- HORIZON-CL6-2025-03-GOVERNANCE-01: Improving understanding and analytical capacity of farmers bargaining power and interactions with the upstream and downstream operators of the EU agri-food supply chains
- HORIZON-CL6-2025-03-GOVERNANCE-02: Upscaling payments for environmental services with result-based and collective approaches for more evidence-based support targeted towards the delivery of agri-environment-climate public goods
- HORIZON-CL6-2025-03-GOVERNANCE-03: Boosting the attractiveness of agriculture and the links between the farming community and society
- HORIZON-CL6-2025-03-GOVERNANCE-04: Operationalisation of bioeconomy sustainability principles
- HORIZON-CL6-2025-03-GOVERNANCE-05: Exploring options to resolve land use competition
- Interested partners: Balint Czucz, NINA
- HORIZON-CL6-2025-03-GOVERNANCE-06: Strengthening Bioeconomy networks
- HORIZON-CL6-2025-03-GOVERNANCE-07: Strengthening the European Research Area by enhancing the bioeconomy research and innovation ecosystem in BIOEAST countries
- Deploying and adding value to environmental observations
- HORIZON-CL6-2025-03-GOVERNANCE-08: Effective environmental observing systems and associated governance
- Interested partners: Mihai Adamescu, UNIBUC
- HORIZON-CL6-2025-03-GOVERNANCE-09: Delivering Earth Intelligence to accelerate the green and digital transition
- Interested partners: Mihai Adamescu, UNIBUC
- HORIZON-CL6-2025-03-GOVERNANCE-10: Improving and integrating polar observation systems in response to user requirements at local, regional, and international level
- Digital and data technologies as key enablers
- HORIZON-CL6-2025-03-GOVERNANCE-11: Enhancing sustainable rural development through digital twins for rural communities Strengthening agricultural knowledge and innovation systems (AKIS)
- HORIZON-CL6-2025-03-GOVERNANCE-12: Increasing knowledge flows to practice within AKIS via thematic networks
- HORIZON-CL6-2025-03-GOVERNANCE-13: Strengthening knowledge and skills of advisors via an EU advisory network
- HORIZON-CL6-2025-03-GOVERNANCE-14: Preparing farmers, their workforce and advisors to the future of agriculture by providing the right knowledge and skills at the right time and place
- HORIZON-CL6-2025-03-GOVERNANCE-15: Supporting the implementation of projects with multi-actor approach (MAA) and boosting the use of their results in practice
- Danish presidency event in connection with update of bioeconomy strategy
- Irish presidency event in connection with update of bioeconomy strategy
- Coordination and support service for Circular Cities and Regions Initiative (CCRI)
- Studies, conferences, events and outreach activities
- Commission expert group on preparing the 6th SCAR Foresight group
- External expertise to assess and advise on EU research and innovation policy
- GEO subscription 2025
