Horizon Europe, Missions – healthy soils and other: announced calls

The programme Horizon Europe, part EU Missions, has open topics for international projects to be funded in 2025. The topics that seem relevant for the Faculty of Science are part of the Mission A Soil Deal for Europe with deadline 4. 9. 2025 (topics with two-stage evaluation) and 30. 9. 2025 (topics with single-stage evaluation).

► On 22. and 23. 5. 2025, the European Commission organise online info days on these calls. Webpage and programme.

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.

• Links to webpages of individual topics on the Funding & Tenders Portal are given in the list of topics below – a topic page includes i.a. basic information, topic description, links to relevant documents, frequently asked questions, interface for proposal submission.
• Work Programme 2025: Missions – context and goals, description of all topics, budget information etc.
• About Missions by the European Commission.
• About Missions by the Czech National Contact Points – news, events etc.

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

Horizon Europe includes the following Missions: Adaptation to Climate Change, Cancer, Restore our Ocean and Waters, Climate-Neutral and Smart Cities, A Soil Deal for Europe. Among the 2025 topics, especially the topics of A Soil Deal for Europe seem relevant, for example:
If a topic title sounds relevant for you, read its full description, especially from the Expected Outcome a Scope.

• HORIZON-MISS-2025-05-SOIL-01:
  Living Labs for soil remediation and green redevelopment of brownfields
• HORIZON-MISS-2025-05-SOIL-02:
  Social, economic and cultural drivers, and costs of land degradation
• HORIZON-MISS-2025-05-SOIL-03:
  Increasing environmental resilience through a better knowledge and management of the soil-water nexus
• HORIZON-MISS-2025-05-SOIL-06:
  Quantifying the impact of farming practices on soil health in arable lands
• HORIZON-MISS-2025-05-SOIL-07:
  Improved land suitability for soil health and sustainable biomass production
• HORIZON-MISS-2025-05-SOIL-09:
  Citizen engagement for sustainable land management through local and regional authorities
• HORIZON-MISS-2025-05-SOIL-02-two-stage:
  Broadening the living labs approach for soil health in Africa and Latin America and the Caribbean

News published by Ludmila Součková on 15. 5. 2025.

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