Network of neighbourhoods for innovative policies on gentrification

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Code: 36986 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-NEB-2025-01-PARTICIPATION-04 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: New European Bauhaus | Start submission calls: 06/05/2025 | End submission calls: 12/11/2025

Strategies and interventions to regenerate neighbourhoods may lead to gentrification, a process that can bring revitalization, sustainable economic growth, diversity and integration but also segregation, insecurity, exclusion, displacement, loss of cultural identity, and socio-economic inequality. Mitigating the negative consequences of gentrification cannot be achieved without policy innovation.

This topic supports informal networking among neighbourhoods to exchange knowledge and experiences, build their capacity, facilitate innovation in policymaking to mitigate the negative consequences of gentrification – including green gentrification – that may result from interventions aligned with the New European Bauhaus.

Beautiful, sustainable and inclusive street furniture for the transformation of neighbourhoods

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Code: 36982 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-NEB-2025-01-PARTICIPATION-03 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: New European Bauhaus | Start submission calls: 06/05/2025 | End submission calls: 12/11/2025

Infrastructural decay, unequal access to essential public amenities (e.g., seating elements, facilities for people with disabilities such as ramps and lifts, etc.) and safety concerns (e.g., related to insufficient lighting or hazardous spatial conditions) represent just some of the challenges that especially older and poorer European neighbourhoods face.

The design of street furniture in neighbourhoods can have a positive impact on people’s lives by enhancing comfort, safety, well-being, health, and accessibility. It can also foster social interaction, cohesion, a sense of belonging, cultural identity and community, respect for common spaces, etc.

Furthermore, the attention to aesthetic values in the design of street furniture can contribute to local economies by attracting new visitors (e.g. developing creative tourism) and supporting local businesses, cultural and creative sectors and industries, and social economy entities and enterprises.

More prototyping and demonstration are essential to speed up the integration of innovative street furniture, that offer more attractive, sustainable, and inclusive design solutions for common spaces, following the values and principles of the New European Bauhaus.

Fostering and maintaining the social fabric for the green transition in neighbourhoods

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Code: 36979 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-NEB-2025-01-PARTICIPATION-02 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: New European Bauhaus | Start submission calls: 06/05/2025 | End submission calls: 12/11/2025

Social connections and cultural participation are core features of individual well-being. Evidence shows a strong association between participation in cultural activities and civic behaviour (such as voting and volunteering), empathy, tolerance, security and social cohesion. Conversely, low interpersonal trust, heightened risk-taking, and disengaged civic attitudes are correlated with an increased sense of loneliness – the lack of meaningful social interactions. Cultural organisations and artistic practices with a social purpose or dimension can help to better connect people, strengthen social fabric, and overcome social boundaries.

This topic aims to study the interplay between cultural participation, social connections and civic engagement. The resulting insights can be used to foster and maintain the social fabric of neighbourhoods and support their green transition while addressing other challenges such as the decline in social connections.

The impact of common space on neighbourhood communities

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Code: 36976 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-NEB-2025-01-PARTICIPATION-01 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: New European Bauhaus | Start submission calls: 06/05/2025 | End submission calls: 12/11/2025

One of the core NEB values is inclusion. The regeneration of common spaces can facilitate inclusiveness and social interaction in neighbourhoods by providing a safe, accessible, and attractive environment. Attractive, well-designed, well-maintained, and secure common spaces can bring people together for commercial, cultural, and leisure activities. A safe environment can also create a sense of trust and community among inhabitants. Recognising a neighbourhood’s diversity “not only improves social and spatial cohesion but also contributes to democratic, peaceful coexistence”. Social, economic, and cultural services and amenities that reflect this diversity and allow for people to come together and interact, can have a particular impact on inclusion and can lead to new forms of collaboration, solidarity and social recognition.

Better knowledge of how common spaces affect social relations is required to scale up successful common space initiatives across Europe. This topic seeks to produce insights on the impacts of common spaces (new, redesigned or redeveloped) on neighbourhoods and their communities

Effective environmental observing systems and associated governance

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Code: 36974 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL6-2025-03-GOVERNANCE-08 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Food, Bioeconomy, Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment (Cluster 6)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 06/05/2025 | End submission calls: 24/09/2025

The effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of observation systems will play a critical role in global initiatives such as WMO’s Global Monitoring of Greenhouse Gases or the GEO initiatives and flagship initiatives, which are essential to support EU and international policies, such as the Paris Agreement, the Montreal Protocol and the Kigali Agreement, the European Climate Law, the EU Climate Adaptation Strategy, the EU Climate Change Regulation, the EU Climate Action Plan and the EU Climate Action Plan.

The ocean-climate-biodiversity nexus and marine carbon dioxide removal (mCDR)

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Code: 36971 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL6-2025-02-CLIMATE-01 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Food, Bioeconomy, Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment (Cluster 6)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 06/05/2025 | End submission calls: 16/09/2025

Removing carbon dioxide (CDR) in an environmentally safe, socially acceptable and economically sustainable way is essential for the implementation of European and global climate policies.

There is considerable uncertainty regarding scalability and short, medium and long-term effectiveness and impacts on marine ecosystems and human health.

Monitoring, reporting, verification and mitigation of non-CO2 greenhouse gas emissions and related air pollutants from agriculture

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Code: 36967 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL6-2025-02-CLIMATE-04 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Food, Bioeconomy, Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment (Cluster 6)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 06/05/2025 | End submission calls: 16/09/2025

Most of the emissions can be attributed to methane and nitrous oxide, which come from livestock production and release from agricultural soils, in particular due to fertiliser use and manure management.

Additional efforts in this area are needed to achieve the EU’s climate objectives, in particular climate neutrality by 2050.

Developing innovative phytosanitary measures for plant health – focus on systems approach for pest risk management

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Code: 36963 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL6-2025-02-FARM2FORK-05 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Food, Bioeconomy, Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment (Cluster 6)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 06/05/2025 | End submission calls: 25/09/2025

Plant health is vital for agriculture, forestry, ecosystems and biodiversity on a global scale.

However, maintaining healthy crops is becoming increasingly difficult due to climate change, biodiversity loss, globalisation and international trade, which accelerate the spread of pests and diseases. 

Overcoming the barriers for scaling up circular water management in agriculture

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Code: 36959 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL6-2025-02-FARM2FORK-03 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Food, Bioeconomy, Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment (Cluster 6)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 06/05/2025 | End submission calls: 16/09/2025

According to the European Environment Agency (EEA), water scarcity affects 30% of the EU population, with economic losses of up to €9 billion per year.

Droughts are increasing in frequency, magnitude and impact, and the affected area is expanding. Agriculture is the main water user in some Member States and associated countries.

Additional activities for the European partnership on animal health and welfare

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Code: 36957 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL6-2025-02-FARM2FORK-02 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Food, Bioeconomy, Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment (Cluster 6)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 06/05/2025 | End submission calls: 16/09/2025

The objective of this action is to continue to support the European Partnership for Animal Health and Welfare identified in the strategic plan “Horizon Europe” 2021-2024 and implemented for the first time under HORIZON-CL6-2023-FARM2FORK-01-2: European Partnership for Animal Health and Welfare, and in particular to fund additional activities.

Strengthening the EU crop breeding research and innovation ecosystem for competitive, resilient, and sustainable agriculture

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Code: 36954 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL6-2025-02-FARM2FORK-09 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Food, Bioeconomy, Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment (Cluster 6)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 06/05/2025 | End submission calls: 16/09/2025

Crop production is facing increasing challenges, such as the urgent need to adapt to climate change, improve water and nutrient use efficiency , protect biodiversity, improve soil health, reduce environmental impacts and ensure food security and resilience.

Addressing these complex issues requires innovative solutions and the conservation and sustainable use of plant genetic resources to develop resilient and adaptable crops.

Exploring the potential of controlled environment agriculture (CEA)

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Code: 36951 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL6-2025-02-FARM2FORK-08 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Food, Bioeconomy, Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment (Cluster 6)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 06/05/2025 | End submission calls: 16/09/2025

Controlled environment agriculture (CEA) refers to any form of agriculture that controls and optimises environmental conditions such as temperature, humidity, carbon dioxide, light or nutrient concentration.

Examples of CEA include greenhouses, vertical farms, greenhouses, building-integrated agriculture, hydroponics, hydroponics, aeroponics, and other practices where technological advances allow for precise regulation of growing conditions.

CEA optimisation offers advantages in terms of resource efficiency, environmental sustainability and crop quality, providing a promising alternative to traditional agriculture to meet the growing global demand for food, especially in the face of climate change and urbanisation.

Additional activities for the European partnership on accelerating farming systems transition – agroecology living labs and research infrastructures

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Code: 36947 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL6-2025-02-FARM2FORK-01 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Food, Bioeconomy, Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment (Cluster 6)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 06/05/2025 | End submission calls: 16/09/2025

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.

Towards modern, integrated, and effective fisheries monitoring, control and surveillance (MCS) systems

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Code: 36944 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL6-2025-02-FARM2FORK-11 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Food, Bioeconomy, Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment (Cluster 6)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 06/05/2025 | End submission calls: 16/09/2025

The implementation of the revised Fisheries Control Regulation (EU Regulation 2023/2842) and related implementing and delegated acts requires tools to identify patterns, anomalies, trends and inconsistencies in electronic reporting (data validation and cross-checking) with high spatial and temporal resolution, supporting more effective fisheries monitoring, control and surveillance.

It also requires secure, tamper-resistant, accurate and innovative vessel monitoring systems, adapted to the specificities of different types of fisheries, such as small-scale fisheries

Raising citizen awareness on alternative proteins derived from biotechnology

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Code: 36941 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL6-2025-02-FARM2FORK-13 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Food, Bioeconomy, Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment (Cluster 6)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 06/05/2025 | End submission calls: 16/09/2025

The proposal should contribute to public understanding and awareness of the use of alternative proteins produced through biotechnology and help to combat misinformation in this area.

It should support, where appropriate, educational interventions and the dissemination of information on the transition to diets based on alternative protein sources, in particular those derived from biotechnology.

The proposal should also consider which (new) food products offer market opportunities and where the potential for their production lies, as well as what accompanying measures (hygiene conditions, dissemination campaign, etc.) are necessary to make consumers aware of and open to including alternative proteins produced through biotechnology in their diets .

Design of the Master Programme in Data Science with Specialization in Sustainability

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Code: 36937 | Identifier Code: EIT Digital2025 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: European Institute of Innovation & Technology (EIT) | Start submission calls: 16/06/2025 | End submission calls: 14/08/2025

EIT Digital Deep Tech Education seeks digital deep-tech education providers to assist in designing master programme that incorporate business-focused elements. Through a master’s programme in data scicence with specialisation in sustainability, it aims to equip executives with advanced strategic and digital leadership skills. By collaborating with industry partners, the initiative ensures alignment with real-world needs, supporting professionals in enhancing their skills to drive digital transformation.

Design of the Master Programme in Business Excellence

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Code: 36929 | Identifier Code: EIT Digital2025 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: European Institute of Innovation & Technology (EIT) | Start submission calls: 16/06/2025 | End submission calls: 14/08/2025

EIT Digital Deep Tech Education seeks digital deep-tech education providers to assist in designing master programme that incorporate business-focused elements. Through a master’s programme in business excellence, it aims to equip executives with advanced strategic and digital leadership skills. By collaborating with industry partners, the initiative ensures alignment with real-world needs, supporting professionals in enhancing their skills to drive digital transformation.

Innovative solutions for resilient and climate-adapted coastal communities in the Atlantic

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Code: 36912 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL6-2025-02-COMMUNITIES-03 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Food, Bioeconomy, Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment (Cluster 6)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 06/05/2025 | End submission calls: 16/09/2025

Around 1 billion people around the world live in vulnerable low-lying coastal areas facing multiple environmental threats, such as extreme weather events, sea level rise, saltwater intrusion into coastal ecosystems, rising water temperatures and ocean acidification.

Enhancing plant protein production to bolster the resilience of agricultural systems and EU self-sufficiency in plant protein used as feed

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Code: 36908 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL6-2025-02-FARM2FORK-04 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Food, Bioeconomy, Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment (Cluster 6)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 06/05/2025 | End submission calls: 16/09/2025

Currently, the cultivation of protein crops, such as pulses and fodder legumes, represents only a small percentage (around 3 %) of the EU’s agricultural area.

While there is no significant shortage in the supply of protein for nutritional purposes in the EU, there is a greater shortage in the feed sector, resulting in high levels of imports (especially soya) from countries that often have different environmental and social standards.

It is therefore of strategic importance for the EU to expand domestic production of protein crops, including mixed crops as a source of feed.

Understanding and managing medium and longer-term challenges and opportunities for agriculture stemming from shifting climatic zones and changing agroecological environments

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Code: 36905 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL6-2025-02-CLIMATE-03 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Food, Bioeconomy, Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment (Cluster 6)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 06/05/2025 | End submission calls: 16/09/2025

Average global temperatures have risen by about 1.5 °C globally since pre-industrial times; temperatures in Europe – the continent with the fastest warming – are rising at about twice that rate.

As temperatures increase, previously stable climate zones (i.e. long-term patterns of temperature, precipitation and seasonal variations) are shifting to higher latitudes (towards the poles) and higher altitudes (where possible).

These changes affect both natural and managed ecosystems and the services they provide, altering the distribution and abundance of many plant species and their life cycles, with consequences for crops and other forms of agricultural land use, including livestock.