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HORIZON EUROPE – Cluster 6 Call 02 – single stage – 2025

Pillar 2 of the Horizon Europe programme aims to boost innovation, competitiveness, and employment in Europe through collaborative projects, international partnerships, and funding opportunities accessible to companies of all sizes and sectors.

2025-09-16
352.500.000 euros
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Call reference HORIZON-CL6-2025-02
Programme Horizon Europe
Institution European Commission
Sectors Agriculture & Fisheries Business & Industry Cooperation & Development Environment & Climate Health Research & Innovation Territorial Development
Beneficiaries Association & NGO EU & International Organisation Large company (> 250 employees) Local Authority & Affiliated Entity Research centre & university Smes & Start-Ups (< 249 Employees)

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Priorities and funded actions

Some Horizon Europe budgets are structured in response to policy ambitions (“destinations”) and deployed through calls for proposals targeting more specific thematic/sector (“Topics”). Thus, your application must be linked to a topic of a call for proposals.

Various categories of projects are eligible:

  • RIA, Research and Innovation Actions: Basic and applied research / Technology development and adoption / Testing and validation of a prototype in the laboratory ;
  • IA, Innovation Actions: Prototypes, tests, demonstrations, pilot projects, market placement. These actions may include limited R&D activities ;
  • CSA, Coordination and Support Actions: Networking, studies & conferences, communication, studies for new research infrastructures ;
  • MSCA, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions / ERC individual grants: Training networks for researchers, Individual grants for experienced researchers, Staff exchange – mobility for researchers and non-scientific staff.

In addition, calls specify the categories of eligible beneficiaries: 

  • Collaborative projects, composed of a coordinator and several partners organisations (consortium) ;
  • Single-beneficiary projects, involving a single organization ;
  • Individual scholarships, open to natural persons in their own name with their home institution.

TOPICS:

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  • HORIZON-CL6-2025-02-FARM2FORK-10: Diversifying aquaculture production with emphasis on low-trophic species
  • HORIZON-CL6-2025-02-FARM2FORK-04: Enhancing plant protein production to bolster the resilience of agricultural systems and EU self-sufficiency in plant protein used as feed
  • HORIZON-CL6-2025-02-FARM2FORK-02: Additional activities for the European partnership on animal health and welfare
  • HORIZON-CL6-2025-02-FARM2FORK-16: Developing a joint AU-EU Agricultural Knowledge and Innovation System (AKIS) supporting the Food and Nutrition Security and Sustainable Agriculture (FNSSA) partnership
  • HORIZON-CL6-2025-02-CLIMATE-02: The ocean-climate-biodiversity-people nexus: uncovering safe operating space for safeguarding the integrity and health of the global ocean
  • HORIZON-CL6-2025-02-FARM2FORK-14: Nutrients produced by microorganisms utilising primarily CO2 from the air, with the support of biotechnology
  • HORIZON-CL6-2025-02-COMMUNITIES-04: Creating urban co-creation spaces for driving sustainable food system transformation
  • HORIZON-CL6-2025-02-FARM2FORK-07: Fostering animal breeding and genetics for climate change adaptation and mitigation, improved robustness and resilience
  • HORIZON-CL6-2025-02-FARM2FORK-15: Additional activities of the European partnership on sustainable food systems for people, planet and climate
  • HORIZON-CL6-2025-02-FARM2FORK-12: Nutrition and Mental Health
  • HORIZON-CL6-2025-02-COMMUNITIES-01: Adapting to and mitigating demographic trends in rural areas through evidence-based planning and innovative solutions
  • HORIZON-CL6-2025-02-FARM2FORK-09: Strengthening the EU crop breeding research and innovation ecosystem for competitive, resilient, and sustainable agriculture
  • HORIZON-CL6-2025-02-CLIMATE-04: Monitoring, reporting, verification and mitigation of non-CO2 greenhouse gas emissions and related air pollutants from agriculture
  • HORIZON-CL6-2025-02-COMMUNITIES-03: Innovative solutions for resilient and climate-adapted coastal communities in the Atlantic
  • HORIZON-CL6-2025-02-CLIMATE-03: 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-FARM2FORK-17: Nutrition in emergency situations – Ready-to-use Supplementary Food (RUSF) and Ready-to-use Therapeutic Food (RUTF)
  • HORIZON-CL6-2025-02-COMMUNITIES-02: Exploring and improving access to housing in rural areas and developing the houses and villages of the future
  • HORIZON-CL6-2025-02-CLIMATE-05: Additional activities for the European Partnership Water Security for the Planet (Water4All)
  • HORIZON-CL6-2025-02-CLIMATE-01: The ocean-climate-biodiversity nexus and marine carbon dioxide removal (mCDR)
  • HORIZON-CL6-2025-02-FARM2FORK-01: Additional activities for the European partnership on accelerating farming systems transition – agroecology living labs and research infrastructures
  • HORIZON-CL6-2025-02-FARM2FORK-06: Improving grassland management in European livestock farming systems
  • HORIZON-CL6-2025-02-FARM2FORK-11: Towards modern, integrated, and effective fisheries monitoring, control and surveillance (MCS) systems
  • HORIZON-CL6-2025-02-FARM2FORK-13: Raising citizen awareness on alternative proteins derived from biotechnology
  • HORIZON-CL6-2025-02-FARM2FORK-08: Exploring the potential of controlled environment agriculture (CEA)
  • HORIZON-CL6-2025-02-FARM2FORK-03: Overcoming the barriers for scaling up circular water management in agriculture
  • HORIZON-CL6-2025-02-FARM2FORK-05: Developing innovative phytosanitary measures for plant health – focus on systems approach for pest risk management

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Financement
  • Total budget of the call: 352.500.000 euros
  • Budget per topic:
    • HORIZON-CL6-2025-02-FARM2FORK-10: 12 million euros
    • HORIZON-CL6-2025-02-FARM2FORK-04: 11 million euros
    • HORIZON-CL6-2025-02-FARM2FORK-02: 40 million euros
    • HORIZON-CL6-2025-02-FARM2FORK-16: 6 million euros
    • HORIZON-CL6-2025-02-CLIMATE-02: 19.500.000 euros
    • HORIZON-CL6-2025-02-FARM2FORK-14: 12 million euros
    • HORIZON-CL6-2025-02-COMMUNITIES-04: 12 million euros
    • HORIZON-CL6-2025-02-FARM2FORK-07: 12 million euros
    • HORIZON-CL6-2025-02-FARM2FORK-15: 35 million euros
    • HORIZON-CL6-2025-02-FARM2FORK-12: 10 million euros
    • HORIZON-CL6-2025-02-COMMUNITIES-01: 13 million euros
    • HORIZON-CL6-2025-02-FARM2FORK-09: 3 million euros
    • HORIZON-CL6-2025-02-CLIMATE-04: 12 million euros
    • HORIZON-CL6-2025-02-COMMUNITIES-03: 6 million euros
    • HORIZON-CL6-2025-02-CLIMATE-03: 10 million euros
    • HORIZON-CL6-2025-02-FARM2FORK-17: 8 million euros
    • HORIZON-CL6-2025-02-COMMUNITIES-02: 6 million euros
    • HORIZON-CL6-2025-02-CLIMATE-05: 23 million euros
    • HORIZON-CL6-2025-02-CLIMATE-01: 12 million euros
    • HORIZON-CL6-2025-02-FARM2FORK-01: 30 million euros
    • HORIZON-CL6-2025-02-FARM2FORK-06: 16 million euros
    • HORIZON-CL6-2025-02-FARM2FORK-11: 12 million euros
    • HORIZON-CL6-2025-02-FARM2FORK-13: 2 million euros
    • HORIZON-CL6-2025-02-FARM2FORK-08: 6 million euros
    • HORIZON-CL6-2025-02-FARM2FORK-03: 12 million euros
    • HORIZON-CL6-2025-02-FARM2FORK-05: 12 million euros
  • Amount of the grant: between 2 and 130 million euros
  • Funding rate: between 70% and 100% of the total eligible costs

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