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HORIZON EUROPE – Supporting the implementation of the Soil Deal for Europe Mission – 2025

Horizon Europe - Horizon Europe aims to strengthen the EU's science and technology base and the European Research Area (ERA), to boost Europe's innovation capacity, competitiveness and employment, and to deliver on citizens' priorities, supporting our socio-economic model and values.

2025-09-30
73 million euros
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Call reference HORIZON-MISS-2025-05
Programme Horizon Europe
Institution European Commission
Sectors Agriculture & Fisheries Buildings & Public Works Civil Protection & Risks Education & Training Environment & Climate Research & Innovation Services to organisations Social Economy Technology & Digital Territorial Development Transport
Beneficiaries Association & NGO Local Authority & Affiliated Entity Professional organisation & network Research centre & university Smes & Start-Ups (< 249 Employees) State administration & affiliated entities

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Priorities and funded actions

Some Horizon Europe budgets are structured in response to policy ambitions (“destinations”) and deployed through calls for proposals targeting more specific thematic/sector (“Topics”). Thus, your application must be linked to a topic of a call for proposals.

Various categories of projects are eligible:

  • RIA, Research and Innovation Actions: Basic and applied research / Technology development and adoption / Testing and validation of a prototype in the laboratory ;
  • IA, Innovation Actions: Prototypes, tests, demonstrations, pilot projects, market placement. These actions may include limited R&D activities ;
  • CSA, Coordination and Support Actions: Networking, studies & conferences, communication, studies for new research infrastructures ;
  • MSCA, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions / ERC individual grants: Training networks for researchers, Individual grants for experienced researchers, Staff exchange – mobility for researchers and non-scientific staff.

In addition, calls specify the categories of eligible beneficiaries:

  • Collaborative projects, composed of a coordinator and several partners organisations (consortium) ;
  • Single-beneficiary projects, involving a single organization ;
  • Individual scholarships, open to natural persons in their own name with their home institution.

TOPICS:

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  • HORIZON-MISS-2025-05-SOIL-01 : Living Labs for soil remediation and green redevelopment of brownfields
  • HORIZON-MISS-2025-05-SOIL-02 : Social, economic and cultural drivers, and costs of land degradation
  • HORIZON-MISS-2025-05-SOIL-03 : Increasing environmental resilience through a better knowledge and management of the soil-water nexus
  • HORIZON-MISS-2025-05-SOIL-04 : Developing transfer functions for the Soil Monitoring Law
  • HORIZON-MISS-2025-05-SOIL-05 : EU global footprint on soils
  • HORIZON-MISS-2025-05-SOIL-06 : Quantifying the impact of farming practices on soil health in arable lands
  • HORIZON-MISS-2025-05-SOIL-07 : Improved land suitability for soil health and sustainable biomass production
  • HORIZON-MISS-2025-05-SOIL-08 : Support to the operation and further development of soil-health science-policy interfaces and national soil-health hubs
  • HORIZON-MISS-2025-05-SOIL-09 : Citizen engagement for sustainable land management through local and regional authorities
  • HORIZON-MISS-2025-05-SOIL-10 : Network on carbon farming and emissions reductions for agricultural and forest lands
  • HORIZON-MISS-2025-05-SOIL-11 : Soil Salinity in Europe: Drivers, indicators, current levels and temporal changes

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Financement
  • Total budget of the call: 73 million euros
  • Budget per topic:
    • HORIZON-MISS-2025-05-SOIL-01: 12 million euros
    • HORIZON-MISS-2025-05-SOIL-02: 11 million euros
    • HORIZON-MISS-2025-05-SOIL-03: 6 million euros
    • HORIZON-MISS-2025-05-SOIL-04: 6 million euros
    • HORIZON-MISS-2025-05-SOIL-05: 6 million euros
    • HORIZON-MISS-2025-05-SOIL-06: 6 million euros
    • HORIZON-MISS-2025-05-SOIL-07: 6 million euros
    • HORIZON-MISS-2025-05-SOIL-08: 6 million euros
    • HORIZON-MISS-2025-05-SOIL-09: 5 million euros
    • HORIZON-MISS-2025-05-SOIL-10: 3 million euros
    • HORIZON-MISS-2025-05-SOIL-11: 6 million euros
  • Amount of the grant: between 3 million and 12 million euros
  • Funding rate: up to 100% of the total eligible costs