EU global footprint on soils
Horizon Europe Mission: A Soil Deal for Europe
Up to €6.0M
30/09/2025
Non-profit, Private Business, Research Institution, Public Institution, Other
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What is the EU global footprint on soils Call?
Expected Outcomes
• Businesses, stakeholders and citizens achieve enhanced recognition and understanding of how EU production, trade and consumption behaviours affect global soil health and related social issues.
• Accelerated uptake of integrated, innovative and reproducible approaches and management practices that reduce the global soil footprint arising from EU demand for bio-based products.
Scope Requirements
• Develop and test an EU Global Soil Footprint framework that measures global soil degradation impacts of EU demand for bio-based products.
• Address links between soil footprint, global trade, GDP and Human Development Index.
• Trace imported bio-based products (for final consumption or as inputs) back to their country of original production, building on JRC land footprint methodology.
• Investigate additional footprints: carbon emissions (carbon footprint), ecotoxicity and eutrophication (contamination footprint), soil biodiversity impacts, and environmental and social inequalities due to land-use change (especially deforestation).
• Take into account soil health indicators from the Mission Soil Implementation Plan and soil descriptors in the proposed Directive on Soil Monitoring and Resilience.
Special Conditions
• Inclusion of high-quality knowledge exchange activities with precise roles for non-scientific actors and methods to facilitate cross-fertilisation of scientific and practical knowledge.
• Development of practical, freely accessible tools, approaches or products and a clear plan for dissemination through channels most consulted by (end-)users, including EIP-AGRI practice abstracts and engagement with Operational Groups or equivalent networks.
• Dedicated tasks and resources for coordination and collaboration with other Mission ‘A Soil Deal for Europe’ projects, the Mission Secretariat and cluster activities; synergies with EU-CELAC roadmap, SCAR-ARCH, Agricultural Research for Development; encouraged involvement of LAC and African partners; collaboration with international organisations (UNEP, UNCCD bodies, FAO, FARA).
• Demonstrated route to open access, sustainability and interoperability of outputs via the EUSO, LCA group and Soil Wise project.
Open from: 06/05/2025
Deadline:30/09/2025
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