Food, bio-economy, natural resources, agriculture and environment

2024 Cluster 6 ‘Food, bioeconomy, natural resources, agriculture and environment’ calls will open in October. An Info Day is organised on 27-28 September for applicants to learn about the topics to open for funding. The event will be hybrid. Register now! A Brokerage event will take place on 26 September, but registration is no longer open.

There are three calls open to restore and protect soils, two of them are open jointly with the EU Missions Ocean and Climate. There are €157 million available for funding. We have compiled a list of dos and don’ts to follow when drafting and submitting your proposal.

If you are applying to any of our calls for proposals, check our online resources. There are steps you can follow to make sure you prepare a quality proposal, and aspects you should not forget such as open science, gender dimension in research, and the communication, dissemination and exploitation of your results.

We need experts to help us select the best ideas for EU funding. If you would like to work with us as an evaluator, get ready by following few steps: 1) If you are not in our database, register now! If you are already in, update your profile regularly! 2) Make sure you add the right keywords – they should match the topics open for funding; 3) Specify if you have experience in the financial management of projects.

Join a community of organisations, institutions, companies and individuals who share a common goal: to protect and restore soil health. Be informed about the Mission Soil activities, from the latest news and events to project updates, calls for proposals, policy developments and much more!

Did you know that over 200 million Europeans depend on healthy coastal ecosystems for their livelihoods? Unfortunately, rare events like coastal flooding will happen more regularly in the future. EU-funded research and innovation projects MaCoBios and FutureMARES work with ecosystems to protect our coasts from erosion.

The EU is seeking to limit growing threats from blazes through the use of satellites, artificial intelligence and unmanned aerial vehicles. With the help of EU funding, Europe’s research community is joining forces with firefighters to prevent fires from spreading or from happening at all. Discover how the projects SAFERS and TREEADS are contributing.

How can the regeneration of historic urban areas help to achieve climate-neutral cities? How to secure and restore our waters? Why co-creation is important? EU-funded projects managed by REA will try to answer these and more questions at the European Week of Regions and Cities Week.

The European Mission Soil Week aims to bring together the European soil community to discuss the challenges for healthy soils. Researchers, experts, farmers, foresters, spatial planners, landowners and managers, businesses and organisations are invited to participate in the first event of this kind to expose the challenges and solutions to restore and protect our soils. Pre-registration is open.