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Balancing food security, bioeconomy, climate and biodiversity objectives to unlock sustainable value chains

Open now · HORIZON Research and Innovation Actions · HORIZON-CL6-2026-01-CIRCBIO-09

Next cut-off
17 Sept '26
in 11 days
Per grant
€6.0M
the call's own average
Grants expected
2
projects that will be funded
Funding rate
100%
the full cost of the action

In context of Horizon Europe

This grant€6.0M
The track runs to the largest grant in Horizon Europe (€171M). The median across the 482 calls we publish is €5.3M, this one is above it.

What this call funds

Expected Outcome:

Project results are expected to contribute to all of the following expected outcomes:

  • decision-makers have improved understanding of the impacts of bioeconomy and nature markets on the sustainability of the agricultural sector, food security, climate and biodiversity, as well as on land-use conflicts;
  • society benefits from economic activities that align bioeconomy, climate and biodiversity objectives while safeguarding food security;
  • farmers gain opportunities to diversify their production, their income and improve the environmental performance of agricultural production without compromising food supply;
  • policymakers are better equipped to develop more effective, evidence-based agricultural and environmental policies.

Scope:

Trimmed here, the full scope, expected outcomes and award criteria are on the official topic page ↗.

What applying costs you

ItemEstimateNote
Drafting effort6–8 weekssingle submission
Partner search4–8 weeksruns in parallel, and it is the part that slips
Time to first payment6–9 monthscut-off → evaluation → grant agreement

These are Bemzu's estimates from the call's structure (the number of stages and whether a consortium is required) not figures published by the Commission. Only the co-financing share is read from the call itself.

Where these conditions come from

Two kinds of row. Most are the sentence we read the condition from, quoted out of the call itself. Some say plainly that they are not a quotation but the programme's own rule for this type of action, the EU portal publishes a table of contents where the conditions should be, so for a Research and Innovation Action the rate comes from the rulebook rather than from the fiche.

ConditionQuoted from the call, or the rule behind it
Consortium sizeNot quoted from this call — Research and Innovation Actions under the Horizon Europe rules are at least three independent legal entities from three different Member States or Associated Countries, at least one established in a Member State.
Funding rateNot quoted from this call — Research and Innovation Actions under the Horizon Europe rules are funded at 100% of eligible costs for every participant.

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