STEP: Setting up facilities and production lines for manufacturing new innovative products/services

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Code: 37084 | Identifier Code: STEP/0625 | Programme name: 2799 | Start submission calls: 13/06/2025 | End submission calls: 05/09/2025

The aim of the STEP programme is to support enterprises in Cyprus to establish facilities and production lines for the development and manufacturing of innovative products and services, in line with the EC STEP Regulation.

International Call for Digital Europe Programme selected countries

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Code: 37076 | Identifier Code: Code4Europe | Programme name: 20613 | Start submission calls: 07/07/2025 | End submission calls: 07/09/2025

The EU Code Week Grants for Grassroots programme is a new initiative designed to foster digital innovation and coding education throughout Europe. The Code4Europe Consortium is setting up a grant scheme in order to foster grassroots activities and widen the support offered by EU Code Week in local ecosystems. JA Europe is currently inviting applications for grants to fund both the creation of new support hubs in selected countries and impactful local flagship activities in digital education, coding, and computational thinking.

Strengthening the resilience of water systems and water sector to climate and global socio-economic change impacts

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Code: 37072 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL6-2025-02-CLIMATE-01-two-stage | 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: 04/09/2025

We are facing a triple interconnected global crisis of climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution.

Water is at the heart of these challenges. We can no longer ignore the global water crisis. The global hydrological cycle is changing.

Over the last three consecutive years, we have also witnessed not only alarming droughts in many parts of the EU, reaching as far as the eastern and northern countries that had previously been spared, but also catastrophic incidents of pollution and deadly floods throughout Europe.

Developing agroecology living labs and lighthouses for climate action under the Food and Nutrition Security and Sustainable Agriculture (FNSSA) partnership

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Code: 37069 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL6-2025-02-FARM2FORK-05-two-stage | 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: 04/09/2025

Agroecology is a holistic approach based on using ecological processes and optimising them to support agricultural production .

By working more closely with nature and ecosystem services, it has the potential to increase the cyclicality, diversification and autonomy of farms, to address climate challenges while maintaining and enhancing biodiversity, and to promote the full transformation of agricultural systems and agricultural value chains, from input substitution and beyond.

Research and innovation for food waste prevention and reduction at household level through measurement, monitoring and new technologies

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Code: 37066 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL6-2025-02-FARM2FORK-04-two-stage | 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: 04/09/2025

 Food waste is not only a moral and economic issue, but also a source of depletion of the limited natural resources of the environment.

Food waste has a huge environmental impact, accounting for around 16 % of total greenhouse gas emissions from the EU food system .

Therefore, by reducing food waste we can also contribute to the fight against climate change.

Making food systems more resilient to food safety risks through the deployment of technological solutions

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Code: 37063 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL6-2025-02-FARM2FORK-03-two-stage | 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: 04/09/2025

Proposals must contribute to all of the following areas:

• in the areas of food safety and food fraud, many efforts have been made in the framework of European Framework Programmes to generate knowledge and potential applications.
• support innovation to drive advances in the food system, implementing digital and technological solutions at high TRL that address existing gaps in food safety and/or food fraud.
• Identify existing regulations and provide recommendations on which technologies could use sandboxes to drive future commercialization.

Open topic: Innovating for on-farm post-harvest operations, storage and transformation of crops into food and non-food products

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Code: 37060 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL6-2025-02-FARM2FORK-02-two-stage | 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: 04/09/2025

Under this theme, proposals should test, develop and pilot innovative solutions to support farmers to improve their position in value chains, benefit from the valorisation of their agricultural products and improve their financial sustainability.

Proposals should improve the climate and environmental performance of the resulting farmers’ activities and businesses.

Emerging and future risks to plant health

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Code: 37058 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL6-2025-02-FARM2FORK-01-two-stage | 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: 04/09/2025

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

The current EU legislative framework on plant health plays a vital role in protecting the EU from the introduction of new plant pathogens, as well as in combating existing plant pathogens more effectively.

Open topic on modern information and forensic evidence analysis and on frontline policing

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Code: 37054 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL3-2025-01-FCT-01 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Civil security for society (Cluster 3) (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 12/06/2025 | End submission calls: 12/11/2025

Under the open topic, proposals are welcome to address new, upcoming or unforeseen challenges and/or creative or disruptive solutions for improving modern information and forensic evidence analysis or frontline policing, that are not covered by topics of Horizon Europe Calls Fighting Crime and Terrorism 2023-2024. If they relate to some of the topics covered by Horizon Europe Calls Fighting Crime and Terrorism 2021-2022, the proposals should explain how they will build on and not duplicate them.

Preparing farmers, their workforce and advisors to the future of agriculture by providing the relevant knowledge, skills and competences at the right time and place

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Code: 37050 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL6-2025-03-GOVERNANCE-14 | 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

Knowledge, skills and competences are key factors for a more competitive, sustainable and resilient agriculture.

However, in many EU Member States there are growing concerns about the lack and mismatch of knowledge, skills and competences among farmers working in diverse and rapidly changing environments.

In order to be prepared for and benefit from the various climatic, environmental, technological, socio-economic and other relevant drivers of change, the rural community, in particular farmers, their workforce and their advisors, should be able to acquire and put into practice the relevant knowledge, skills and competences, at the right time and in the right place, in a lifelong pathway.

Open topic on secured and facilitated crossing of external borders

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Code: 37047 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL3-2025-01-BM-02 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Civil security for society (Cluster 3) (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 12/06/2025 | End submission calls: 12/11/2025

Under this topic, proposals are welcome to address new, upcoming or unforeseen challenges and/or creative or disruptive solutions for improving capabilities of practitioners for the secured and facilitated checks of crossings of external borders. Contexts and scenarios in Europe’s border regions that may in the future be impacted by geopolitical instabilities or tensions from outside the EU, and need sustained and improved surveillance and reaction capabilities, could be particularly considered. Moreover, mechanisms for detecting the presence of threats in travel flows should be investigated. If they relate to some of the topics covered by Horizon Europe Calls Effective Management of EU External Borders 2021-2022 or 2023-2024, the proposals should convincingly explain how they will build on and not duplicate them.

Proposals may also address capabilities related to possible future digitalised travel credentials (DTC), including though not limited to: Type-1 and Type-2 and forward integration with secure digital citizenship wallet(s); identification and verification in the context of border checks; optimisation of resources in the context of border checks.

Strengthening knowledge and skills of advisors and integrating them within Agricultural Knowledge and Innovation Systems (AKIS) via an EU advisory network

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Code: 37046 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL6-2025-03-GOVERNANCE-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: 24/09/2025

The advisers are best placed to encourage farmers to change their practices to improve the competitiveness, sustainability and resilience of agriculture.

They must be able to translate knowledge and provide specific, targeted and practical solutions for farmers, tailored to specific local conditions.

They should be prepared to provide innovation support services based on the interactive innovation model.

They should also be able to use different data sources to analyse farm performance over time, covering the three dimensions of sustainability, and thus provide informed, holistic advice to farmers.

Increasing knowledge flows to practice within Agricultural Knowledge and Innovation Systems (AKIS) via thematic networks

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Code: 37041 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL6-2025-03-GOVERNANCE-12 | 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

Research results, innovative solutions, practical knowledge and best practices are not sufficiently known, disseminated and used in practice, despite continuous investment in R&D to support farmers and/or foresters and/or rural communities to become more competitive, sustainable and resilient.

Enhancing sustainability and resilience of agriculture, forestry and rural development through digital twins

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Code: 37037 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL6-2025-03-GOVERNANCE-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: 24/09/2025

Given that around a third of EU citizens live and work in rural areas, it is vital to empower rural communities – farmers, foresters and other rural actors – in the transition towards sustainability and resilience so that no one is left behind.

In this context, digital twin technology has attracted attention over the last decade because of its potential to address challenges in many application areas and to transform the way businesses and public administrations operate.

However, research and innovation related to the use of digital twins in rural areas and related key economic sectors, in particular in agriculture and forestry, is still limited.

Digital twins require further exploration, innovation, testing and demonstration in order to realise their full potential and achieve a higher level of maturity and scalability in different territorial and sectoral contexts.

Improving and integrating polar observation systems in response to user requirements at local, regional, and international level

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Code: 37034 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL6-2025-03-GOVERNANCE-10 | 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

Long-term, integrated and continuous observations, based on common polar observation variables, require the development of a “system of systems”. Proposals should address issues such as the carbon cycle, biogeochemistry, sea ice dynamics, ice shelves, freshwater fluxes altering marine waters and ocean circulation, atmospheric composition and conditions, submarine permafrost, marine habitat degradation and biodiversity.

 

Delivering Earth Intelligence to accelerate the green and digital transition

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Code: 37029 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL6-2025-03-GOVERNANCE-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: 24/09/2025

This action is an application-oriented initiative, which responds to the new GEO strategy for the period beyond 2025 and aims to combine and promote existing European Earth observation services and solutions, which have been prototyped under the relevant Horizon, Copernicus and other European and national projects and initiatives, and to extend them to end-users and customers with a view to their widespread adoption.

Strengthening the European Research Area by enhancing the bioeconomy research and innovation ecosystem in BIOEAST countries

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Code: 37026 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL6-2025-03-GOVERNANCE-07 | 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

This theme concerns proposals to align research and innovation programmes on sustainable natural resources, with a particular focus on soil and water resilience, the security of food systems and the sustainable use of biomass in the bioeconomy.

Strengthening and connecting bioeconomy networks

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Code: 37023 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL6-2025-03-GOVERNANCE-06 | 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

There is a need to strengthen a pan-European bioeconomy network to exchange knowledge and promote mutual learning on bioeconomy initiatives and solutions, the transition to a sustainable and circular bioeconomy and its governance, in view of the review of the current EU bioeconomy strategy.

Although some platforms for networking and cooperation in the bioeconomy exist, more can be done toenhance relationship building between European sectors, stakeholder groups, generations, languages, levels of governance or professions and to promote cross-sectoral ideas leading to bioeconomy solutions and improved governance.

Exploring options to resolve land and sea use competition

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Code: 37020 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL6-2025-03-GOVERNANCE-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: 24/09/2025

A sustainable and circular bioeconomy is based on management that guarantees the conservation and restoration of biodiversity and healthy ecosystems, while providing sufficient biomass to produce the food, materials and energy needed for human well-being.

On the one hand, we see a decline in biodiversity, a gap in carbon storage by ecosystems or a lack of capacity of the biosphere to absorb pollutants.

On the other hand, increasing competition for biomass use between food, materials and energy suggests a possible sustainable biomass gap in Europe.

Improving analytical capacity and understanding of the bargaining power and interactions of farmers with the operators of the value chains

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Code: 37015 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL6-2025-03-GOVERNANCE-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: 24/09/2025

The understanding and capacity to analyse the functioning of the agriculture and food sectors, value chains and market structures remain incomplete and oversimplified.

This contributes to a knowledge gap on the relationships between farm production costs and price transmission, from input prices faced by farmers to food prices faced by consumers.

Market conditions and market and value chain dynamics that affect farmers’ bargaining power are important factors influencing farmers’ decision making and income.