Objectives

To galvanize sustainable solutions for land restoration and drought resilience to restore soil health in Mediterranean drylands in collaboration with the EU Mission ‘A Soil Deal for Europe’

Priorities

• Priority 1: To restore desertified landscapes: improve the functionality of ecosystems and landscapes, to continue providing ecosystem goods and services, and offer proven and cost-effective solutions for land restoration
• Priority 2: To increase biodiversity, soil health, and food production
• Priority 3: To decrease land degradation, to stabilize the surface of lands suitable for cultivation and other related ecosystem services
• Priority 4: To contribute to improving employment, especially for women and youth

Among financed actions

• Activities directly aiming at producing plans and arrangements or designs for new, altered or improved products, processes or services
• A demonstration or pilot
• A market replication
• Projects may include limited research and development activities

Additional information

• This call for proposals is an open call for proposals
• Duration of the action: 36 months

Eligibility 

• Be a legal entity
• Be an international European interest organisation
• A consortium composed of at least 4 entities, established in at least 3 different countries considered as PRIMA Participating States with: at least 1 must be established in an EU Member State or a third country associated with Horizon 2020 and not being an MPC and at least 2 must be established in third countriy/countries bordering the Mediterranean Sea
• All four legal entities must be independent of each other

• Total budget of the call: 8.2 million euro
• Amount of the grant: 4.1 million euro