EIT Urban Mobility Business Plan 2023-2025

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Code: 22469 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-EIT-2023-25-KIC-EITURBANMOBILITY | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: European Institute of Innovation & Technology (EIT) | Start submission calls: 01/06/2022 | End submission calls: 28/09/2022

Objective:

• Relevant and appropriate EIT Urban Mobility Business Plan for 2023-2025 implementation of the KIC’s multiannual strategy Strategic, demonstrating its excellence (including objectives and ambition; methodology; financial sustainability), its impact (including KIC’s pathways towards impact; measures to maximise impact – dissemination, exploitation and communication) and its quality and efficiency of the implementation (including work plan and resources at portfolio level; capacity of participants and KIC Partnership as a whole).
• To address EIT Urban Mobility‘s target societal challenges and Knowledge Triangle Integration (KTI), contributing to achieving the future high-level results and impacts included in the EIT Impact Framework.
• KIC’s objectives/priorities in this Business Plan, describing its objectives using SMART criteria (specific, measurable, attainable, relevant and time-bound) and why are they pertinent to the KIC Strategic Agenda.

EIT Cross-KIC Strategic Access to Finance

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Code: 22463 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-EIT-2023-25-Cross-KIC-Strategic-ATF | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: European Institute of Innovation & Technology (EIT) | Start submission calls: 01/06/2022 | End submission calls: 28/09/2022

Developing synergies of the EIT community with EIC, EIF and EIB to facilitate investments (Access to Finance) for the KICs supported ventures (startups / scaleups) or innovation projects and that contribute to the KICs’ financial sustainability and diversification of revenues from ROI / Equity.

EIT Food Business Plan 2023-2025

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Code: 22460 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-EIT-2023-25-KIC-EITFOOD | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: European Institute of Innovation & Technology (EIT) | Start submission calls: 01/06/2022 | End submission calls: 28/09/2022

Objective:

• Relevant and appropriate EIT Food Business Plan for 2023-2025 implementation of the KIC’s multiannual strategy Strategic, demonstrating its excellence (including objectives and ambition; methodology; financial sustainability), its impact (including KIC’s pathways towards impact; measures to maximise impact – dissemination, exploitation and communication) and its quality and efficiency of the implementation (including work plan and resources at portfolio level; capacity of participants and KIC Partnership as a whole).
• To address EIT Food‘s target societal challenges and Knowledge Triangle Integration (KTI), contributing to achieving the future high-level results and impacts included in the EIT Impact Framework.
• KIC’s objectives/priorities in this Business Plan, describing its objectives using SMART criteria (specific, measurable, attainable, relevant and time-bound) and why are they pertinent to the KIC Strategic Agenda.

EIT Raw Materials Business Plan 2023-2025

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Code: 22450 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-EIT-2023-25-KIC-EITRAWMATERIALS | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: European Institute of Innovation & Technology (EIT) | Start submission calls: 01/06/2022 | End submission calls: 28/09/2022

Objective:

• Relevant and appropriate EIT RawMaterials Business Plan for 2023-2025 implementation of the KIC’s multiannual strategy Strategic, demonstrating its excellence (including objectives and ambition; methodology; financial sustainability), its impact (including KIC’s pathways towards impact; measures to maximise impact – dissemination, exploitation and communication) and its quality and efficiency of the implementation (including work plan and resources at portfolio level; capacity of participants and KIC Partnership as a whole).
• To address EIT RawMaterials‘s target societal challenges and Knowledge Triangle Integration (KTI), contributing to achieving the future high-level results and impacts included in the EIT Impact Framework.
• KIC’s objectives/priorities in this Business Plan, describing its objectives using SMART criteria (specific, measurable, attainable, relevant and time-bound) and why are they pertinent to the KIC Strategic Agenda.

Higher Education Institutions (HEI) initiative 2023-2025

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Code: 22448 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-EIT-2023-2025-HEI | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: European Institute of Innovation & Technology (EIT) | Start submission calls: 01/06/2022 | End submission calls: 28/09/2022

To create systemic impact in higher education at the institutional level, by supporting higher education institutions (HEIs) to increase their innovation and entrepreneurial capacity and better integrate into and engage with innovation ecosystems.

EIT Climate-KIC Business Plan 2023-2024

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Code: 22441 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-EIT-2023-24-KIC-EITCLIMATEKIC | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: European Institute of Innovation & Technology (EIT) | Start submission calls: 01/06/2022 | End submission calls: 28/09/2022

Objective:

• Relevant and appropriate EIT Climate-KIC Business Plan for 2023-2024 implementation of the KIC’s multiannual strategy Strategic, demonstrating its excellence (including objectives and ambition; methodology; financial sustainability), its impact (including KIC’s pathways towards impact; measures to maximise impact – dissemination, exploitation and communication) and its quality and efficiency of the implementation (including work plan and resources at portfolio level; capacity of participants and KIC Partnership as a whole).
• To address EIT Climate-KIC‘s target societal challenges and Knowledge Triangle Integration (KTI), contributing to achieving the future high-level results and impacts included in the EIT Impact Framework.
• KIC’s objectives/priorities in this Business Plan, describing its objectives using SMART criteria (specific, measurable, attainable, relevant and time-bound) and why are they pertinent to the KIC Strategic Agenda.

EIT InnoEnergy Business Plan 2023-2024

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Code: 22433 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-EIT-2023-24-KIC-EITINNOENERGY | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: European Institute of Innovation & Technology (EIT) | Start submission calls: 01/06/2022 | End submission calls: 28/09/2022

Objective:

• Relevant and appropriate EIT InnoEnergy Business Plan for 2023-2024 implementation of the KIC’s multiannual strategy Strategic, demonstrating its excellence (including objectives and ambition; methodology; financial sustainability), its impact (including KIC’s pathways towards impact; measures to maximise impact – dissemination, exploitation and communication) and its quality and efficiency of the implementation (including work plan and resources at portfolio level; capacity of participants and KIC Partnership as a whole).
• To address EIT InnoEnergy‘s target societal challenges and Knowledge Triangle Integration (KTI), contributing to achieving the future high-level results and impacts included in the EIT Impact Framework.
• KIC’s objectives/priorities in this Business Plan, describing its objectives using SMART criteria (specific, measurable, attainable, relevant and time-bound) and why are they pertinent to the KIC Strategic Agenda.

Enhancing synergies between the EIC and Startup Europe

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Code: 22418 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-EIC-2022-STARTUPEU-01-01 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: European Innovation Council-EIC (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 01/06/2022 | End submission calls: 17/11/2022

The EIC is seeking to build synergies with the wider European startup ecosystem via a second wave of actions under the Commission’s Startup Europe initiative. The actions will act as a catalyst to fulfil the potential of European startups, in delivering market-ready applications and technology solutions that can contribute to the competitiveness and strategic autonomy of EU industry in key technology areas and value chains.

Innovations for soil improvement from bio-waste

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Code: 22397 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-MISS-2022-SOIL-01-10 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Missions | Start submission calls: 12/05/2022 | End submission calls: 27/09/2022

Project results should contribute to all of the following expected outcomes:

• Enhanced entrepreneurship on circularity and regenerative processes and, in particular, increased number of highly innovative start-ups and industrial hubs developing and
  scaling up soil improvers616 from bio-waste.
• Significant reduction of bio-waste for landfill.
• Improved nutrient recovery from bio-waste for soil improvers production.
• Improved environmental, health and safety performance of soil improvers from biowaste and related production operations, including improved testing methods throughout the entire life cycle.
• New improved and demonstrated products, value chains and services available for soil improvers derived from bio-waste.

Remediation strategies, methods and financial models for decontamination and reuse of land in urban and rural areas

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Code: 22395 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-MISS-2022-SOIL-01-04 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Missions | Start submission calls: 12/05/2022 | End submission calls: 27/09/2022

This topic will help to progress towards Green Deal objectives, notably the Zero Pollution Strategy. It contributes to the Mission ‘A Soil Deal for Europe’, in particular to its specific objective 4 “Reduce soil pollution and enhance restoration”.

Project results should contribute to all of the following outcomes:

• Private and public land managers can better prioritise and plan activities and investments for soil restoration and decontamination based on increased knowledge on the state of land and soil pollution.
• Knowledge on technical solutions for soil decontamination and restoration is more widespread and better integrated in a wider sustainable land use and spatial planning
  approach.
• Effective measures for soil restoration are in place and contribute to noticeable improvements in soil health on the medium term as well as to the circular use of land
  and to the achievement of no net land take in the EU by 2050.
• Better insights into origin, fate and hotspots of pollution are made available to support assessments of hazard, exposure and risks from soil pollution.
• MS regions affected by the need for a green transition are supported in their efforts to remediate and reuse contaminated soils such as from former mining sites and benefit from new opportunities for soil use.

Soil biodiversity and its contribution to ecosystem services

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Code: 22393 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-MISS-2022-SOIL-01-03 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Missions | Start submission calls: 12/05/2022 | End submission calls: 27/09/2022

This topic contributes to the objectives and targets of the EU Soil Strategy which foresees that by 2050, all soils in the EU should be healthy, i.e. are in good chemical, physical and biological conditions, and thus able to continuously provide as many ecosystem services as possible. It also contributes to the Mission ‘A Soil Deal for Europe’ , in particular to its specific objective 6 “Improve soil structure to enhance habitat quality for soil biota and crops”.

Project results should contribute to all of the following outcomes:

• Significantly improved understanding of ecosystem services related to soil biodiversity as well as of the role of soil biodiversity in the provision of relevant soil functions and ecosystem services.
• Enhanced protection, sustainable management and restoration of soil ecosystems through more targeted (policy) incentives and wide-spread knowledge on sustainable soil management practices and solutions, including a better integration of soil within land use planning and frameworks to evaluate ecosystem services.
• Significantly improved availability of soil biodiversity indicators which support the implementation, assessment and monitoring of policy at large scale (i.e. EU).

Improving food systems sustainability and soil health with food processing residues

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Code: 22391 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-MISS-2022-SOIL-01-02 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Missions | Start submission calls: 12/05/2022 | End submission calls: 27/09/2022

Project results should contribute to all of the following outcomes:

• Improved management and recycling of food-processing residues (solid and liquid) for increased soil health.
• Reduced discharge of nutrients (i.e., nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium) into sewage/natural watercourses and landfills relieving eutrophication in water bodies.
• Empowered interdisciplinary design processes to create soil improvers and to valorise food by-products in food systems (e.g., land managers, industry, SMEs, local authorities, educational institutions and civil society).
• Higher number of co-developed solutions and investments (public and private) in circular bioeconomy projects.

Citizen science for soil health

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Code: 22388 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-MISS-2022-SOIL-01-09 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Missions | Start submission calls: 12/05/2022 | End submission calls: 27/09/2022

This topic contributes to the implementation of the Mission ‘A Soil Deal for Europe’, in particular to its specific objective 8 “Increase soil literacy in society across
Member States”.

Project results should contribute to all the following outcomes:

• The public’s awareness of the value of soil is significantly increased.
• Citizens are empowered to take an active role in science and in increasing the knowledge base on soils by monitoring and gathering data on soil biodiversity and becoming more aware of the importance of soils and the soil food web in their daily lives.
• Greater availability of local scale data on soil health. This will expand and complement established soil databases to support critical landscape decisions and policy
  development.
• The EU Soil Observatory scope is enlarged and populated with citizen science data

Framework Partnership Agreement (FPA) for a Living Lab network support structure

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Code: 22384 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-MISS-2022-SOIL-01-08 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Missions | Start submission calls: 12/05/2022 | End submission calls: 27/09/2022

This Framework Partnership Agreement (FPA) aims at supporting the effective implementation of the Mission ‘A Soil Deal for Europe’ (hereafter referred to as the Soil Deal Mission) and in particular its overall goal of setting up a network of 100 living labs and lighthouses by 2030.

The FPA will allow to establish an effective support structure (hereafter referred to as LL support structure) to coordinate and promote activities under the mission’s network of living labs and lighthouses. The LL support structure will cater for the needs of living labs and lighthouses that will be selected through open calls in forthcoming Work Programmes of the Soil Deal Mission (from 2023 onwards).

Foster soil education across society

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Code: 22382 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-MISS-2022-SOIL-01-07 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Missions | Start submission calls: 12/05/2022 | End submission calls: 27/09/2022

This topic contributes to the implementation of the Mission ‘A Soil Deal for Europe’, in particular to its specific objective 8 “Increase soil literacy in society across Member States”. It supports the objectives of the European Green Deal, the European Climate Pact and the EU Soil Strategy for 2030. In addition, results obtained under this topic
should contribute to the objectives of the European Education Area, the Education for Climate Coalition and improve the European sustainability competence framework
(GreenComp) to prepare people to face the challenges of a changing climate world.

Project results should contribute to all of the following outcomes:

• teaching programmes and targeted communication, education and engagement materials on soil are more widely available in numerous European languages;
• higher uptake and diffusion of good practices and hands-on activities related to soil education across the EU and Associated Countries;
• soil literacy is more firmly embedded in educational curricula at all levels and supports behavioural change and the adoption of sustainable practices both individually and
  collectively based on a better understanding of the vital importance of soils for human life and planetary health;
• increased awareness of the importance of soil and its functions, as well as of the Mission objectives, amongst pupils, students and professionals across Europe.

Network on carbon farming for agricultural and forest soils

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Code: 22380 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-MISS-2022-SOIL-01-06 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Missions | Start submission calls: 12/05/2022 | End submission calls: 27/09/2022

This topic supports the implementation of the European Commission Communication on sustainable carbon cycles582 and the upcoming regulatory framework on carbon removals certification583, and thereby contributes to the design and implementation of carbon-farming practices in Europe.

Project results should contribute to all of the following expected outcomes:

• Increased knowledge about carbon farming practices through networking and exchange of experiences.
• Enhanced uptake and development of standards for carbon farming in Europe.
• Increased capacities for measuring, monitoring and standardising carbon fluxes, in particular at landscape level through a robust network for data collections.

Monitoring, reporting and verification of soil carbon and greenhouse gases balance

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Code: 22377 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-MISS-2022-SOIL-01-05 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Missions | Start submission calls: 12/05/2022 | End submission calls: 27/09/2022

This topic supports the implementation of key actions of the European Commission Communication on sustainable carbon cycles and carbon farming and the upcoming regulatory framework on carbon removals certification:

Project results should contribute to all of the following outcomes:

• The relationships between carbon flux dynamics of typical carbon farming practices and its driving factors (ecophysiology of ecosystems) as well as the impact of climate change on soil organic carbon (and as a consequence on soil fertility and food production) are better understood.
• The development of standards to track payment systems for carbon farming and, of methods to consider the maintenance of carbon already stored in soils in carbon farming schemes is enhanced.
• Reduced administrative and financial burden associated with carbon farming management practices.
• Increased stakeholder faith and robustness of standards in voluntary (or other) carbon markets, leading to increased potential for revenue opportunities.

Integration of biodiversity monitoring data into the Digital Twin Ocean

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Code: 22310 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-MISS-2022-OCEAN-01-07 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Missions | Start submission calls: 12/05/2022 | End submission calls: 27/09/2022

Project results are expected to contribute to all of the following expected outcomes:

• Identified relevant “sleeping” or inaccessible biodiversity data and establishment of partnerships with data owners to unlock data on marine life, and human activities that
  affect it, through the digital ocean twin;
• Harmonised data, protocols and vocabularies, amongst biodiversity monitoring networks and actors, including citizens science programmes, and national authorities monitoring programmes;
• Secured, sustained and reliable data flows from biodiversity monitoring programmes, including research projects, national and international monitoring programmes, into
  DTO data repositories, from data collectors to data integrators, and their integration/assimilation in existing models;
• Economies of scale and enhanced standardisation through pilot sea-basin scale monitoring for species across the trophic chains (plankton, including microbes, fishes,
  marine mammals, reptiles and birds, other if considered important);
• Tools to better support assessment of multiple human activities pressures on biodiversity through exploring and assessing different modes of operation, different policies
  development and their effect on biodiversity;
• Support to the Mission’s Blue Parks and biodiversity actions in the Mission Lighthouses.

Towards a European e-DNA library of marine and freshwater species

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Code: 22308 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-MISS-2022-OCEAN-01-09 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Missions | Start submission calls: 12/05/2022 | End submission calls: 27/09/2022

Project results are expected to contribute to all of the following expected outcomes:

• Contribution to the development of the next generation marine monitoring programmes and mapping initiatives that focus on collecting and analysing environmental DNA-of marine and freshwater species;
• Assessment of all relevant activities, actions and projects that entail collecting and analysing environmental DNA from marine and freshwater species implemented in the
  European Union and in the Associated countries for their synergies;
• Assessment of the feasibility of creation of an integrated European e-DNA library of all marine and freshwater species that would be based on FAIR principles and publicly
  available and support marine biodiversity monitoring programmes and mapping initiatives. Compatibility with the European Marine Observation and Data Network
  (EmodNet) and the future Ocean and Water knowledge system (Digital Twin Ocean) will be part of the assessment;
• Assessment of ongoing international efforts on standards and interoperability of data, methods, techniques, etc.
• Fair and equitable sharing of the benefits from the use of marine genetic resources linked to biodiversity, in line with the EU Biodiversity Strategy 2030;
• Promote synergies and harmonisation between projects and initiatives to collect and analyse DNA of marine and freshwater species for their future successful scale up.

Towards local community-driven business models: regenerative ocean farming

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Code: 22305 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-MISS-2022-OCEAN-01-10 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Missions | Start submission calls: 12/05/2022 | End submission calls: 27/09/2022

Projects are expected to contribute to all of the following expected outcomes:

• Evidence-based business plans for the development of entrepreneurship and successful local community-driven regenerative ocean farming initiatives;
• Job creation and new skills development;
• Provision of new ecosystem services from marine and coastal ecosystems;
• Preserved local marine and costal ecosystems, biodiversity and genetic diversity;
• Increased resilience of coastal and marine areas to climate change and generation of positive climate change mitigation effects;
• Improved marine and coastal habitats, biodiversity and enhanced conservation capacity;
• Increased knowledge on impact of regenerative ocean farming on local marine and coastal environment conditions.