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HORIZON EUROPE – Cluster 6 Call 02 – two 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.

2025-09-04
74 million euros
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Call synthesis

Call reference HORIZON-CL6-2025-02-two-stage
Programme Horizon Europe
Institution European Commission
Sectors Agriculture & Fisheries Environment & Climate Research & Innovation
Beneficiaries Association & NGO EU & International Organisation Large company (> 250 employees) 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:

Open

  • HORIZON-CL6-2025-02-FARM2FORK-05-two-stage: Developing agroecology living labs and lighthouses for climate action under the Food and Nutrition Security and Sustainable Agriculture (FNSSA) partnership
  • HORIZON-CL6-2025-02-FARM2FORK-02-two-stage: Open topic: Innovating for on-farm post-harvest operations, storage and transformation of crops into food and non-food products
  • HORIZON-CL6-2025-02-CLIMATE-01-two-stage: Strengthening the resilience of water systems and water sector to climate and global socio-economic change impacts
  • HORIZON-CL6-2025-02-FARM2FORK-03-two-stage: Making food systems more resilient to food safety risks through the deployment of technological solutions
  • HORIZON-CL6-2025-02-FARM2FORK-04-two-stage: Research and innovation for food waste prevention and reduction at household level through measurement, monitoring and new technologies
  • HORIZON-CL6-2025-02-FARM2FORK-01-two-stage: Emerging and future risks to plant health

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Financement
  • Total budget of the call: 74 million euros
  • Budget per topic:
    • HORIZON-CL6-2025-02-FARM2FORK-05-two-stage: 12 million euros
    • HORIZON-CL6-2025-02-FARM2FORK-02-two-stage: 12 million euros
    • HORIZON-CL6-2025-02-CLIMATE-01-two-stage: 18 million euros
    • HORIZON-CL6-2025-02-FARM2FORK-03-two-stage: 12 million euros
    • HORIZON-CL6-2025-02-FARM2FORK-04-two-stage: 8 million euros
    • HORIZON-CL6-2025-02-FARM2FORK-01-two-stage: 12 million euros
  • Amount of the grant: between 4 and 6 million euros
  • Funding rate: between 70% and 100% of the total eligible costs