Understanding and managing medium and longer-term challenges and opportunities for agriculture stemming from shifting climatic zones and changing agroecological environments
HORIZON-CL6-2025-02-CLIMATE-03
Funding Amount
€5.0M - €5.0M
Deadline
16/09/2025
Eligible Organization Types
Non-profit, Private Business, Research Institution, Public Institution
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Grant Description
This research and innovation action supports development, testing and validation of dynamic models to assess medium and long-term impacts of shifting climatic zones on European agriculture. It addresses the need to understand links between climate change, ecosystems services and agricultural productivity, characterise spatial distribution of cropping systems under future conditions, and deliver decision support tools enabling tailored adaptation and restoration pathways. Proposals must integrate...
Required Results for Successful Funding
Expected Outcomes
In line with the EU adaptation strategy, the CAP’s climate objectives and the EU biodiversity strategy for 2030, successful projects will enable:
• A better understanding and management, by sector actors and policy-makers, of complex links between changes in climate conditions, ecosystems services and agricultural productivity and sustainability.
• Improved knowledge of land-area suitability for different agricultural uses, and widespread application of region-specific adaptation strategies under multiple climate scenarios.
• Enhanced capacity and knowledge among farmers and land managers to anticipate challenges and seize opportunities arising from shifting climatic zones and changing agroecological conditions.
• A better understanding and management, by sector actors and policy-makers, of complex links between changes in climate conditions, ecosystems services and agricultural productivity and sustainability.
• Improved knowledge of land-area suitability for different agricultural uses, and widespread application of region-specific adaptation strategies under multiple climate scenarios.
• Enhanced capacity and knowledge among farmers and land managers to anticipate challenges and seize opportunities arising from shifting climatic zones and changing agroecological conditions.
Funded areas
Scope Requirements
Projects must:
1. Use up-to-date and novel evidence, observations and methods to develop, test and validate dynamic models of agriculture under climate change, including tipping-point scenarios (e.g., AMOC collapse) and extremes (heatwaves, drought).
2. Cover a broad range of agroecological systems and pedoclimatic conditions, addressing key impacts on phenology, water, soil, productivity and biotic threats.
3. Map and characterise the geo-distribution of current and potential future cropping and livestock systems, including permanent crops and grasslands.
4. Derive and validate indicators of sustainability, productivity and resilience, and quantify production uncertainties under multiple climate scenarios.
5. Develop and deliver decision-support tools and business models at different governance levels to guide land-use adaptation and restoration pathways.
6. Allocate a dedicated work package and resources for collaboration with other projects under this topic, relevant Horizon Europe missions and the Agroecology Partnership.
7. Ensure effective integration of Social Sciences and Humanities to assess socio-economic dimensions, governance and stakeholder engagement.
8. Integrate existing Earth observation data ecosystems and Destination Earth’s Climate Adaptation Digital Twin data.
9. Optionally include participation of the Joint Research Centre to apply advanced AI techniques for extreme-event analysis and tipping-point scenarios.
10. Align with the “Land, ocean and water for climate action” destination and relevant Work Programme 2025 destination descriptions.
1. Use up-to-date and novel evidence, observations and methods to develop, test and validate dynamic models of agriculture under climate change, including tipping-point scenarios (e.g., AMOC collapse) and extremes (heatwaves, drought).
2. Cover a broad range of agroecological systems and pedoclimatic conditions, addressing key impacts on phenology, water, soil, productivity and biotic threats.
3. Map and characterise the geo-distribution of current and potential future cropping and livestock systems, including permanent crops and grasslands.
4. Derive and validate indicators of sustainability, productivity and resilience, and quantify production uncertainties under multiple climate scenarios.
5. Develop and deliver decision-support tools and business models at different governance levels to guide land-use adaptation and restoration pathways.
6. Allocate a dedicated work package and resources for collaboration with other projects under this topic, relevant Horizon Europe missions and the Agroecology Partnership.
7. Ensure effective integration of Social Sciences and Humanities to assess socio-economic dimensions, governance and stakeholder engagement.
8. Integrate existing Earth observation data ecosystems and Destination Earth’s Climate Adaptation Digital Twin data.
9. Optionally include participation of the Joint Research Centre to apply advanced AI techniques for extreme-event analysis and tipping-point scenarios.
10. Align with the “Land, ocean and water for climate action” destination and relevant Work Programme 2025 destination descriptions.
Additional Conditions for Applicants
Special Conditions
• Grant type: Lump sum under Horizon Europe RIA (HORIZON-AG-LS).
• Projects using satellite-based Earth Observation or positioning data must use Copernicus and/or Galileo/EGNOS.
• Joint Research Centre may join any consortium and lead tasks on AI-driven extreme-event and tipping-point modelling.
• Proposals must include a dedicated task and budget for inter-project coordination under this topic and collaboration with related missions/partnerships.
• Mandatory integration of SSH expertise.
• Encouraged use of Destination Earth’s Climate Adaptation Digital Twin and existing EO data ecosystems.
• Proposals must comply with Horizon Europe General Annexes (Admissibility, Eligibility, Exclusion, Evaluation, MGA, etc.).
• Single-stage submission by 16 September 2025, 17:00 Brussels time.
• Eligible participants: legal entities from EU Member States and Horizon Europe associated countries as per Annex B of the General Annexes.
• Projects using satellite-based Earth Observation or positioning data must use Copernicus and/or Galileo/EGNOS.
• Joint Research Centre may join any consortium and lead tasks on AI-driven extreme-event and tipping-point modelling.
• Proposals must include a dedicated task and budget for inter-project coordination under this topic and collaboration with related missions/partnerships.
• Mandatory integration of SSH expertise.
• Encouraged use of Destination Earth’s Climate Adaptation Digital Twin and existing EO data ecosystems.
• Proposals must comply with Horizon Europe General Annexes (Admissibility, Eligibility, Exclusion, Evaluation, MGA, etc.).
• Single-stage submission by 16 September 2025, 17:00 Brussels time.
• Eligible participants: legal entities from EU Member States and Horizon Europe associated countries as per Annex B of the General Annexes.
Important dates
Open from: 06/05/2025
Deadline:16/09/2025
Application period has ended
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