Exploring options to resolve land and sea use competition
Innovative governance, environmental observations and digital solutions in support of the Green Deal
€4.5M - €4.5M
24/09/2025
Non-profit, Private Business, Research Institution, Public Institution
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What is the Exploring options to resolve land and sea use competition Call?
Expected Outcomes
• Enhanced understanding of emerging trade-offs among environmental objectives (climate mitigation/adaptation, biodiversity protection/restoration) and between social and economic goals in diverse regional contexts.
• Advanced deliberation tools (software and methodologies) enabling evidence-based policy and decision-making at national and regional levels, comprehensively assessing European Green Deal policy domains.
Scope Requirements
• Anticipate and analyse conflicts arising from competing biomass uses across environmental, social and economic objectives in multiple regional contexts.
• Build upon JRC’s EU-level IBLUA tool to produce finer-scale, region-specific deliberation tools.
• Develop integrated assessments covering natural, semi-natural and managed ecosystems (agriculture, forestry, fisheries, aquaculture).
• Employ System of Environmental Economic Accounting (SEEA) indicators and JRC’s EU-wide ecosystem condition assessment.
• Create inclusive policy narratives reflecting diverse objectives, with quantitative indicator reporting.
• Model alternative land/sea biomass configurations: dietary, energy, bio-based products, carbon farming.
• Address land/sea ownership challenges (private vs public) and embed solution options in the tool.
• Demonstrate implementation across regions spanning different socio-economic and climate/ecological zones in the EU and associated countries.
• Ensure compatibility with the Knowledge Centre for Bioeconomy working streams and JRC methodologies.
• Include tasks and resources for collaboration with parallel projects under this topic and synergies with other Horizon Europe initiatives.
• Base tool development on Global Resources Outlook 2024 and offer services from European research infrastructures
Special Conditions
• Joint Research Centre (JRC) participation is encouraged to align with existing IBLUA methodologies and bioeconomy working streams.
• Proposals must include a dedicated work package and resources for coordination with other projects funded under this topic, the “A Soil Deal for Europe” Mission and related EU programmes.
• Participants must be eligible under Annex B (Member States and Association agreements), meet financial and operational capacity criteria (Annex C) and abide by lump-sum conditions (Annex G).
• Evaluation and award will follow Horizon Europe criteria and thresholds (Annex D) and processes (Annex F).
• Proposals should consider services from ESFRI research infrastructures and seek synergies with European data and environmental observation initiatives
Open from: 06/05/2025
Deadline:24/09/2025
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