Network on carbon farming and emissions reductions for agricultural and forest lands
Horizon Europe Mission 'A Soil Deal for Europe' Coordination and Support Actions
Funding Amount
€3.0M - €3.0M
Deadline
30/09/2025
Eligible Organization Types
Non-profit, Private Business, Research Institution, Public Institution
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What is the Network on carbon farming and emissions reductions for agricultural and forest lands Call?
Grant Description
Activities to coordinate and support implementation of the Mission “A Soil Deal for Europe” objective to conserve soil organic carbon, by continuing and expanding a stakeholder network, supporting the Expert Group on carbon removals, developing a knowledge-sharing platform, expanding data collection networks, standardising monitoring, reporting and verification methodologies for carbon farming and greenhouse gas emission reductions, and promoting co-creation, communication and uptake of innovati...
Required Results for Successful Funding
Expected Outcomes
• Consolidated knowledge and state-of-the-art descriptions of carbon farming and agricultural, forestry and livestock emission-reduction practices are available to land managers, farmers, forest owners and the Commission’s Expert Group on carbon removals.
• Enhanced uptake by land managers across Europe of carbon farming and emission-reduction practices, supported by the development of harmonised standards.
• Increased capacities of land managers for measuring, monitoring and standardising carbon fluxes at landscape level, enabled by a robust, transparent data collection network and improved (new) data collection methodologies.
• Enhanced uptake by land managers across Europe of carbon farming and emission-reduction practices, supported by the development of harmonised standards.
• Increased capacities of land managers for measuring, monitoring and standardising carbon fluxes at landscape level, enabled by a robust, transparent data collection network and improved (new) data collection methodologies.
Funded areas
Scope Requirements
• Contribute to Mission ‘A Soil Deal for Europe’, specific objective 2 “conserve soil organic carbon stocks”.
• Support design and implementation of soil-health-improving innovative carbon farming practices in line with the EU Carbon Removal and Carbon Farming (CRCF) Regulation and the Commission Communication “A Vision for Agriculture and Food”.
• Contribute to SDG 13 (Climate Action) and SDG 15 (Life on Land), ensuring carbon farming generates co-benefits for biodiversity protection, ecosystem restoration, soil health and land degradation avoidance.
• Standardise methodologies and rules for monitoring, reporting and verification (MRV) of carbon sequestration gains/losses and GHG emission reductions, delivering transparency, environmental integrity and alignment with the EU climate regulatory framework (Effort-Sharing Regulation, LULUCF, climate neutrality by 2050).
• Advance preparation and future updating of high-quality carbon farming certification methodologies (e.g. peatland rewetting, agroforestry) and pilot methodologies for livestock emission reduction by 2026.
• Maintain and expand the stakeholder network established by CREDIBLE, ensuring continuous input to policy and methodology updates through feedback from actors applying the CRCF methodologies.
• Implement a multi-actor co-creation process throughout the project: genuine involvement of end-users (farmers, foresters, advisors, land managers, policymakers, civil society, industry, educators, etc.) from planning through implementation, dissemination and exploitation.
• Deliver practical, ready-to-use knowledge, tools and products, easily understandable and freely accessible, with clear roles for non-scientific actors and cross-fertilisation of skills between science and practice.
• Ensure open access, longevity, sustainability and interoperability of knowledge and outputs via close collaboration with EUSO and Soil Wise.
• Cover carbon removals and emission reductions in all relevant LULUCF categories and across nutrient and mass-flow chains (crop, feed, stable, biogas, fertilisers, residues, humus), including value creation processes.
• Support design and implementation of soil-health-improving innovative carbon farming practices in line with the EU Carbon Removal and Carbon Farming (CRCF) Regulation and the Commission Communication “A Vision for Agriculture and Food”.
• Contribute to SDG 13 (Climate Action) and SDG 15 (Life on Land), ensuring carbon farming generates co-benefits for biodiversity protection, ecosystem restoration, soil health and land degradation avoidance.
• Standardise methodologies and rules for monitoring, reporting and verification (MRV) of carbon sequestration gains/losses and GHG emission reductions, delivering transparency, environmental integrity and alignment with the EU climate regulatory framework (Effort-Sharing Regulation, LULUCF, climate neutrality by 2050).
• Advance preparation and future updating of high-quality carbon farming certification methodologies (e.g. peatland rewetting, agroforestry) and pilot methodologies for livestock emission reduction by 2026.
• Maintain and expand the stakeholder network established by CREDIBLE, ensuring continuous input to policy and methodology updates through feedback from actors applying the CRCF methodologies.
• Implement a multi-actor co-creation process throughout the project: genuine involvement of end-users (farmers, foresters, advisors, land managers, policymakers, civil society, industry, educators, etc.) from planning through implementation, dissemination and exploitation.
• Deliver practical, ready-to-use knowledge, tools and products, easily understandable and freely accessible, with clear roles for non-scientific actors and cross-fertilisation of skills between science and practice.
• Ensure open access, longevity, sustainability and interoperability of knowledge and outputs via close collaboration with EUSO and Soil Wise.
• Cover carbon removals and emission reductions in all relevant LULUCF categories and across nutrient and mass-flow chains (crop, feed, stable, biogas, fertilisers, residues, humus), including value creation processes.
Additional Conditions for Applicants
Special Conditions
• Type of action: Horizon Coordination and Support Action (HORIZON-CSA) under Lump Sum Grant (HORIZON-AG-LS).
• Single-stage submission: opens 06 May 2025; deadline 30 September 2025, 17:00 Brussels time.
• Budget: indicative € 6 000 000 lump sum; number of grants: around 1.
• Proposal page limits and layout per Annex A/E of Horizon Europe Work Programme General Annexes and Part B of the Application Form.
• Eligibility: countries listed in Annex B of General Annexes; financial and operational capacity per Annex C; evaluation criteria, scoring, thresholds per Annex D; submission and evaluation procedures per Annex F.
• Costs: lump sum model governed by the Decision of 7 July 2021; use the standard HE CSA application and evaluation forms; follow the Model Grant Agreement (MGA) for lump sums.
• Mandatory multi-actor approach: genuine and sufficient involvement of a balanced consortium of relevant key actors (scientists and practitioners) over the full project lifecycle; describe methods to facilitate engagement and co-creation.
• Proposals must demonstrate a route to self-sustainability of activities, co-ownership of results, open access and FAIR data principles.
• Mandatory collaboration with specified past and ongoing EU projects and initiatives, and engagement with the Mission Secretariat, Mission Soil platform, EUSO and Soil Wise.
• Proposals must prepare ‘practice abstracts’ in the EIP-AGRI format for CAP dissemination and, where relevant, involve EIP-AGRI Operational Groups or equivalent innovation groups.
• Single-stage submission: opens 06 May 2025; deadline 30 September 2025, 17:00 Brussels time.
• Budget: indicative € 6 000 000 lump sum; number of grants: around 1.
• Proposal page limits and layout per Annex A/E of Horizon Europe Work Programme General Annexes and Part B of the Application Form.
• Eligibility: countries listed in Annex B of General Annexes; financial and operational capacity per Annex C; evaluation criteria, scoring, thresholds per Annex D; submission and evaluation procedures per Annex F.
• Costs: lump sum model governed by the Decision of 7 July 2021; use the standard HE CSA application and evaluation forms; follow the Model Grant Agreement (MGA) for lump sums.
• Mandatory multi-actor approach: genuine and sufficient involvement of a balanced consortium of relevant key actors (scientists and practitioners) over the full project lifecycle; describe methods to facilitate engagement and co-creation.
• Proposals must demonstrate a route to self-sustainability of activities, co-ownership of results, open access and FAIR data principles.
• Mandatory collaboration with specified past and ongoing EU projects and initiatives, and engagement with the Mission Secretariat, Mission Soil platform, EUSO and Soil Wise.
• Proposals must prepare ‘practice abstracts’ in the EIP-AGRI format for CAP dissemination and, where relevant, involve EIP-AGRI Operational Groups or equivalent innovation groups.
Important dates
Open from: 06/05/2025
Deadline:30/09/2025
Application period has ended
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