The programme Horizon Europe, part Cluster 6: Food, Bioeconomy, Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment (CL6) prepares announcement of topics for international projects to be funded in 2025. Calls are planned to open on 6. 5. 2025, deadlines in September 2025.

► On 1. 4. 2025, a Czech national infoday on these calls is organised. Event webpage and registration (in Czech).
► On 20. and 21. 5. 2025, the European Commission organise information days on these calls. Event webpage.

The information in this news is based on unofficial sources, the calls are still subject to change. Source.

If you plan to participate in a proposal submitted to a Horizon Europe call, please, contact well in advance the Project Management Department (Martina Holíková, martina.holikova@natur.cuni.cz).
See also Horizon Europe – practical information on faculty website.

If you are interested in one of the topics, but you don’t know, how to find a project coordinator or partners, please, contact the Project Management Department and we’ll recommend to you some networking opportunities.

If you have international research contacts and your research can be potentially used in applied research and in innovation, but cannot find a suitable topic in Horizon Europe, contact us and we can try to find a topic for you.

Projects are carried out by international consortia with significant participation of users of results of the projects, the usual consortia size is ca. 8–25 entities (depending on scope of the topic) from EU countries or countries associated to Horizon Europe. Each project proposal must focus on one of the specific topics prescribed by the programme for the given year. About this type of projects on faculty website

Topics in CL6 may be relevant for researchers in biology, but also in geography, social geography and demography, if their research can be useful in the fields of agriculture, forestry, and aquaculture, sustainable production and consumption of products of these sectors, related biodiversity, or climate change resilience.

Examples of topics that seem relevant for the Faculty of Science:
If a topic title sounds relevant for you, read its full description, especially from the Expected Outcome a Scope, in the Work Programme (draft).

  • HORIZON-CL6-2025-01-BIODIV-02:
    Strengthening the capacity of citizen science in biodiversity observation
  • HORIZON-CL6-2025-01-BIODIV-03:
    Strengthening taxonomic approaches for biodiversity
  • HORIZON-CL6-2025-01-BIODIV-04:
    Large-scale in situ biodiversity observations for better understanding of biodiversity state, drivers of its decline and impacts of policies
  • HORIZON-CL6-2025-01-BIODIV-05:
    Assessing and modelling ecosystems’ dynamic processes to guide restoration activities and to improve models used for climate
  • HORIZON-CL6-2025-01-BIODIV-06:
    Assessing and modelling socio-economic impacts of nature restoration
  • HORIZON-CL6-2025-01-BIODIV-07: Integrated and coordinated approaches for coral reefs and associated ecosystems (mangroves and seagrass beds) conservation, restoration, and climate mitigation and adaptation
  • HORIZON-CL6-2025-01-BIODIV-09:
    Understanding the perceptions of and improving communication on the biodiversity crisis and nature restoration benefits to sustain citizen engagement and democratic governance
  • HORIZON-CL6-2025-01-BIODIV-01-two-stage:
    Living labs and lighthouses co-creating innovative solutions for forests and freshwater ecosystems restoration
  • HORIZON-CL6-2025-02-FARM2FORK-03:
    Overcoming the barriers for scaling up circular water management in agriculture
  • HORIZON-CL6-2025-02-FARM2FORK-05:
    Developing innovative phytosanitary measures for plant health - focus on systems approach for pest risk management
  • HORIZON-CL6-2025-02-FARM2FORK-06:
    Improving grassland management in European livestock farming systems
  • HORIZON-CL6-2025-02-FARM2FORK-14:
    Nutrients produced by microbes utilising primarily CO2 from the air, with the support of biotechnology
  • HORIZON-CL6-2025-02-FARM2FORK-01-two-stage:
    Emerging and future risks to plant health
  • HORIZON-CL6-2025-01-CIRCBIO-08:
    Bioprospecting and optimized production of the terrestrial natural products: new opportunities for bio-based sectors
  • HORIZON-CL6-2025-01-CIRCBIO-13:
    Reconstructing areas affected by conflicts: the role of the bio-based solutions
  • HORIZON-CL6-2025-01-ZEROPOLLUTION-01:
    Innovative and advanced monitoring and modelling systems for revised air quality policies
  • HORIZON-CL6-2025-01-ZEROPOLLUTION-02:
    Environmental impacts from the production of agricultural crops for bio-based industrial systems
  • HORIZON-CL6-2025-01-ZEROPOLLUTION-03:
    Environmental biotechnology applications in service of remediation of polluted ecosystems
  • HORIZON-CL6-2025-02-CLIMATE-01:
    The ocean-climate-biodiversity nexus and marine carbon dioxide removal
  • HORIZON-CL6-2025-02-CLIMATE-03:
    Understanding and managing medium and longer-term challenges and opportunities for agriculture stemming from shifting climatic zones and changing agroecological environments
  • HORIZON-CL6-2025-02-COMMUNITIES-01:
    Adapting to and mitigating demographic trends in rural areas through evidence-based planning and innovative solutions
  • HORIZON-CL6-2025-03-GOVERNANCE-08:
    Effective environmental observing systems and associated governance
  • HORIZON-CL6-2025-03-GOVERNANCE-10:
    Improving and integrating polar observation systems in response to user requirements at local, regional, and international level
  • HORIZON-CL6-2025-03-GOVERNANCE-11:
    Enhancing sustainability and resilience of agriculture, forestry and rural development through digital twins

 

News published by Ludmila Součková on 18. 3. 2025.

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