Mission: A Soil Deal for Europe (HORIZON EUROPE)

Life on earth depends on healthy soils. Healthy soils provide food, clean water, habitats for biodiversity and other important services while contributing to climate resilience399. We take these services for granted, but in fact, soils are a scarce and a threatened resource, all over Europe and beyond. It is estimated that around 60 of soils in the EU are unhealthy400, mainly because of unsustainable management practices. The effects of climate change are putting further pressure on this key resource. The Mission supports Europe’s path to sustainable soil management as part of the wider green transition, in urban as well as rural areas. The Mission’s goal is to establish 100 living labs and lighthouses to lead the transition towards healthy soils by 2030 for the benefit of food, people, nature and climate.

To reach its goal and objectives, the Mission foresees actions across territories and sectors. It aims at having wide-reaching impact on practices in agriculture, forestry, the food sector and other industries (e.g. biobased and waste) as well as on land use planning in rural and urban areas. The Mission will also tap into the expertise from international partners and contribute to soil health globally.

The Mission implementation plan specifies the goal and objectives as well as the mode for implementation of the Mission ‘A Soil Deal for Europe: 100 living labs and lighthouses to lead the transition towards healthy soils by 2030’. Proposals for topics under Work Programme 2023-2024 of this Mission will be part of a wider portfolio of Mission activities.

Call topics mit der Einreichungsfrist

• HORIZON-MISS-2024-SOIL-01-01: Co-creating solutions for soil health in Living Labs
• HORIZON-MISS-2024-SOIL-01-02: Living Labs in urban areas for healthy soils
• HORIZON-MISS-2024-SOIL-01-03: Towards a dynamic monitoring system to assess status and spatiotemporal changes of soil erosion at European scale
• HORIZON-MISS-2024-SOIL-01-04: Systems to quantify nitrogen fluxes and uncertainties in European landscapes
• HORIZON-MISS-2024-SOIL-01-05: Soil health, pollinators and key ecosystem functions
• HORIZON-MISS-2024-SOIL-01-06: Harnessing the multifunctional potential of soil biodiversity for healthy cropping systems"
• HORIZON-MISS-2024-SOIL-01-07: Development of high spatial-resolution monitoring approaches and geographically-explicit registry for carbon farming
• HORIZON-MISS-2024-SOIL-01-08: Managing forest peatsoils
• HORIZON-MISS-2024-SOIL-01-09: Assessment of Soil Health in Africa

Budget: 134,50 MEUR

Vollen Text des Arbeitsprogramms " Missions and Cross-cutting Activities" (2023-2025) finden Sie hier.