Additional activities for the European partnership on accelerating farming systems transition – agroecology living labs and research infrastructures
Programme Category
Programme Name
Programme Description
Horizon Europe is the European Union (EU) funding programme for the period 2021 – 2027, which targets the sectors of research and innovation. The programme’s budget is around € 95.5 billion, of which € 5.4 billion is from NextGenerationEU to stimulate recovery and strengthen the EU’s resilience in the future, and € 4.5 billion is additional aid.
Identifier Code
Call
Summary
The objective of this action is to continue to provide support to the European Partnership for Accelerating the Transition of Agricultural Systems – Agroecology Living Labs and Research Infrastructures identified in the Horizon Europe Strategic Plan 2021-2024.
Detailed Call Description
The consortium which applied to and received funding under HORIZON-CL6-2023-FARM2FORK-01-1: European partnership for accelerating farming systems transition – agroecology living labs and research infrastructures, is uniquely placed to submit a proposal to continue the partnership. Not only did this consortium submit the proposal leading to the identification of the partnership in the Horizon Europe strategic planning 2021-2024, it has also been implementing the partnership through two co-funded calls launched in year 2024 and several internal activities based on this planning and further to topic HORIZON-CL6-2023-FARM2FORK-01-1. In this context, the current consortium has particular expertise in relation to the objectives of the partnership, the activities to be implemented in particular financial support to third parties and internal activities clearly required/envisioned pursuant to initial proposal/partnership. In practice, another consortium could not continue the activities of the partnership underway without significant disruption to the ongoing activities, if at all.
The proposal submitted to this call should align with the partnership’s co-created strategic research and innovation agenda. Activities should reflect a balanced proportion of financial support to third parties and of internal activities, including calls for research projects, setting-up an EU-wide network of agroecology living labs and research infrastructures, development of indicators, metrics, and tools to monitor the agroecology transition and sustainability performance, and supporting evidence-based policy-making at EU, national and regional level. Through its activities, the partnership should deliver and support the upscaling of concrete, ready-to-use tools, solutions and innovations for farmers in different pedo-climatic conditions and contexts, and ensure a wide-spread uptake of partnership’s results by farmers and by all relevant stakeholders. These aspects should be reflected in the successive updates of the partnership’s strategic research and innovation agenda.
The partnership should pool the necessary financial resources from the participating national (or regional) research programmes with a view to organising and implementing joint calls for transnational proposals resulting in grants to third parties, for which it should factor ample time to run the co-funded projects.
Call Total Budget
Financing percentage by EU or other bodies / Level of Subsidy or Loan
Expected EU contribution per project: €90.00 million.
- €30 million from the 2025 budget,
- €30 million from the 2026 budget,
- €30 million from the 2027 budget.
Thematic Categories
- Agriculture - Farming - Forestry
- Education and training
- Environment and Climate Change
- Research, Technological Development and Innovation
- Rural development
- Small-Medium Enterprises and Competitiveness
Eligibility for Participation
- Associations
- Central Government
- Educational Institutions
- Farmers, Agriculturalists
- Legal Entities
- Natual person / Citizen / Individual
- Non Profit Organisations
- Private Bodies
- Researchers/Research Centers/Institutions
- Semi-governmental organisations
- Services Providers
- Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs)
- State-owned Enterprises
Eligibility For Participation Notes
The Joint Research Centre (JRC) may participate as member of the consortium selected for funding.
If projects use satellite-based earth observation, positioning, navigation and/or related timing data and services, beneficiaries must make use of Copernicus and/or Galileo/EGNOS (other data and services may additionally be used).
The proposal must be submitted by the coordinator of the consortium funded under HORIZON-CL6-2023-FARM2FORK-01-1: European partnership on accelerating farming systems transition – agroecology living labs and research infrastructures, European Horizon Europe – Work Programme 2023-2024 Food, Bioeconomy, Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment. This eligibility condition is without prejudice to the possibility to include additional partners.
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.
Call Opening Date
Call Closing Date
National Contact Point(s)
Research and Innovation Foundation
29a Andrea Michalakopoulou, 1075 Nicosia,
P.B. 23422, 1683 Nicosia
Telephone: +357 22205000
Fax: +357 22205001
Email: support@research.org.cy
Website: https://www.research.org.cy/en/
Contact Persons:
Marcia Trillidou
Scientific Officer A’
Email: trillidou@research.org.cy
Dr. Mary Economou
Scientific Officer
Email: meconomou@research.org.cy