Assessing and modelling socio-economic impacts of nature restoration
HORIZON-CL6-2025-01-BIODIV-06
Funding Amount
€5.0M - €6.0M
Deadline
17/09/2025
Eligible Organization Types
Non-profit, Private Business, Research Institution, Public Institution
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What is the Assessing and modelling socio-economic impacts of nature restoration Call?
Grant Description
Support research and innovation actions to develop and validate socio-economic assessment and modelling tools for nature restoration measures. Projects will quantify short-, medium- and long-term benefits and costs of ecosystem restoration, including distributional impacts, integrate biodiversity and ecosystem services, ensure FAIR data, involve social sciences and gender expertise, and collaborate with related projects and EC Knowledge Centre for Biodiversity.
Required Results for Successful Funding
Expected Outcomes
• Improved understanding of short, medium and long-term socio-economic impacts (benefits and costs) of nature restoration and their social and territorial distribution among researchers and public/private stakeholders.
• Availability of science-based tools for policy-makers to predict the socio-economic outcomes of restoration policies, including benefit-cost estimates.
• Provision of analytical tools enabling financiers and implementers to incorporate socio-economic impacts and costs of restoration into their business plans.
• Enhanced traceability of socio-economic benefits and costs to specific restoration interventions or stressor origins (e.g., pollution reduction).
• Availability of science-based tools for policy-makers to predict the socio-economic outcomes of restoration policies, including benefit-cost estimates.
• Provision of analytical tools enabling financiers and implementers to incorporate socio-economic impacts and costs of restoration into their business plans.
• Enhanced traceability of socio-economic benefits and costs to specific restoration interventions or stressor origins (e.g., pollution reduction).
Funded areas
Scope Requirements
• Align with the EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030 (restore carbon-rich ecosystems; ensure ≥30% of habitats/species reach favourable status) and incremental targets of the EU Nature Restoration Regulation for 2030/2050.
• Conduct sector-specific, territory- and group-differentiated assessments of economic and social impacts and benefits of nature restoration, incorporating both market and non-market values.
• Employ a genuinely multidisciplinary team covering economics, ecology, social sciences, geography, sustainability/environmental science, and system & complexity science.
• Develop, test and validate modelling approaches based on or extending existing environmental and socio-economic models, to quantify socio-economic benefits and costs of restoration measures, including food security implications.
• Quantify progress between 2030 and 2050 target years, enabling guidance for ongoing public/private restoration investments.
• Advance understanding of non-market benefit valuation and the boundaries of current socio-economic assessment tools.
• Build on and reference results from past and ongoing projects, and IPBES assessment reports (Values Assessment; Scenarios and Models Assessment).
• Integrate Social Sciences and Humanities (economics, socio-economics, geography, sociology) with relevant gender expertise throughout, to maximise societal impact.
• Conduct sector-specific, territory- and group-differentiated assessments of economic and social impacts and benefits of nature restoration, incorporating both market and non-market values.
• Employ a genuinely multidisciplinary team covering economics, ecology, social sciences, geography, sustainability/environmental science, and system & complexity science.
• Develop, test and validate modelling approaches based on or extending existing environmental and socio-economic models, to quantify socio-economic benefits and costs of restoration measures, including food security implications.
• Quantify progress between 2030 and 2050 target years, enabling guidance for ongoing public/private restoration investments.
• Advance understanding of non-market benefit valuation and the boundaries of current socio-economic assessment tools.
• Build on and reference results from past and ongoing projects, and IPBES assessment reports (Values Assessment; Scenarios and Models Assessment).
• Integrate Social Sciences and Humanities (economics, socio-economics, geography, sociology) with relevant gender expertise throughout, to maximise societal impact.
Additional Conditions for Applicants
Special Conditions
• Grant funding under the Horizon Lump Sum model (HORIZON-AG-LS) and single-stage submission (opening 06 May 2025; deadline 17 Sep 2025, 17:00 Brussels time).
• Eligible participants and financial rules as per Horizon Europe General Annexes (Annex B for countries; Annex C for capacity; Annex D/E/F for evaluation and admissibility).
• If using satellite-based Earth observation or positioning data, projects must use Copernicus and/or Galileo/EGNOS services.
• Proposals must allocate resources to cooperate with other projects selected under this topic (HORIZON-CL 6-2025-01-BIODIV-05 and BIODIV-10) and with the EC Knowledge Centre for Biodiversity and its Science Service project Bio Agora.
• Data produced must follow FAIR principles and, where possible, adopt “FAIR-by-design” workflows for real-time data.
• Mandatory involvement of SSH experts/institutions and integration of gender expertise in project consortia.
• Eligible participants and financial rules as per Horizon Europe General Annexes (Annex B for countries; Annex C for capacity; Annex D/E/F for evaluation and admissibility).
• If using satellite-based Earth observation or positioning data, projects must use Copernicus and/or Galileo/EGNOS services.
• Proposals must allocate resources to cooperate with other projects selected under this topic (HORIZON-CL 6-2025-01-BIODIV-05 and BIODIV-10) and with the EC Knowledge Centre for Biodiversity and its Science Service project Bio Agora.
• Data produced must follow FAIR principles and, where possible, adopt “FAIR-by-design” workflows for real-time data.
• Mandatory involvement of SSH experts/institutions and integration of gender expertise in project consortia.
Important dates
Open from: 06/05/2025
Deadline:17/09/2025
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