Horizon Europe Cluster 6 opportunities 2026-2027: Sustainable food, bioeconomy, natural resources, agriculture, the environment, soil and ocean mission

9:30am to 10:30am

This funding call supports food production all the way through the supply chain to consumption. This considers health impacts from diets and the social considerations around consumer behaviour and how that can be used to promote healthy choices.

The following Cluster 6 Farm2fork single stage call opportunities 2027 will be discussed during this webinar:

1. Increasing the resilience of agriculture in water and nutrient-scarce environments through digital innovations
2. Increasing mitigation of GHG emissions and feed efficiency through feed additives
3. Microbiome for terrestrial livestock sustainability and health within a One Health approach
4. Improving understanding of the contribution of the organic farming sector to sustainability
5. Enhancing farmer’s profitability and resilience through innovations for diversified crops and value chains
6. Unleashing the potential of sustainable small scale aquatic food production and recreational fisheries for prosperous local communities
7. Towards commercialization of food systems microbiome solutions
8. AI-powered foodome characterization
9. African Union – European Union Partnership on Food and Nutrition Security and Sustainable Agriculture (FNSSA)

Cluster 6 Farm2fork two stage call opportunities 2027:

1. Strengthening plant health: addressing emerging plant pest risks
2. Optimising the water-nutrient energy nexus for sustainable and climate smart agriculture in Africa (FNSSA)

10:30am to 11:30am

The need to maximise the reach of the bioeconomy sectors and the circular economy is essential. This will help us to reduce our environmental impact and improve our resource use and efficiency. This is a fundamental part of the EU Green Deal approach to sustainable economic growth.

The following Cluster 6 CIRCBIO single stage call opportunities 2027 will be discussed during this webinar:

1. Enhancing ecodesign and circularity of consumer electronics
2. Developing novel recycling technologies for complex plastic materials applying biotech solutions
3. Capacity building for extending product lifecycles through repair and refurbishment
4. Innovative circular solutions for end
5. end-of -life footwear through collection, sorting and recycling
6. Towards a Europe of Bioeconomy Places
7. Improving biomass flows for a sustainable and circular bioeconomy
8. Biotechnology application for CCU
9. Increasing the circularity of bio-based sector: upcycling and recycling for higher value and environmental benefits
10. Strengthening forest research for the support of Ukraine

Cluster 6 CIRCBIO two stage call opportunities 2027:

1. Deploying circular systemic solutions through living labs in cities and regions (Circular Cities and Regions Initiative topic)
2. Open topic: Using the Circular Cities and Regions Initiative to strengthen urban manufacturing in support of the Clean Industrial Deal

11:30am to 12pm

This call addresses the climate change challenges that affect us all. It will promote behaviour change and management practices to assist in the transition to a low carbon economy.

The following Cluster 6 climate single stage call opportunities 2027 will be discussed during this webinar:

1. Governance, sustainable development and international politics of a future ice-free Arctic
2. Strengthening evidence-based policies for the resilience of European agriculture and forestry and related supply chains against crises and systemic risks
3. Carbon farming innovation and scale-up
4. Unlocking a safe operating space for Antarctica and the Southern Ocean

Cluster 6 climate two stage call opportunities 2027:

1. Open topic: Innovative solutions for the European Water Resilience Strategy

1pm to 2pm

This destination acts as an enabler—funding research and innovation that provide the digital tools, data, monitoring systems, and governance frameworks needed to make the European Green Deal and EU sustainability policies work in practice. It supports collection of robust evidence using environmental observations and digital technologies, information gathering and networking and knowledge transfer. Evidence-based decision making, through to policy and governance is necessary to embed the R&I into actions to bring about transformative action across all sectors.

The following Cluster 6 governance call opportunities 2027 will be discussed during this webinar:

1. Strengthening the resilience of European farmers through improved capacity in coping with risks and crises
2. Improving analytical capacity for sustainable competitiveness of the agricultural sector
3. International dimension of the circular biobased economy: seeking win win-win opportunities
4. AI supporting informed advice for farmers and foresters to improve competitiveness and sustainability
5. Increasing knowledge flows to practice within AKIS via EU thematic knowledge hubs
6. Fostering generational renewal in agriculture via EU advisory network
7. Strengthening strategic advice and synergies between EU and national Research and Innovation agendas and investments

2pm to 3pm

Our communities whether urban, rural or coastal are key to the adoption and effectiveness of any intervention. Engagement and real collaborative working is essential to create more resilient communities to prepare for and react to the challenges and transitions ahead.

The following Cluster 6 communities call opportunities 2027 will be discussed during this webinar:

1. Strengthening rural communities’ resilience to shocks
2. Empowering local urban food systems entrepreneurship and innovation

Clean environment and zero pollution:

This call aims to advance the knowledge of pollution sources and pathways to enable preventive measures, improve monitoring and control, apply planetary boundaries in practice and introduce effective remediation methods.

The following Cluster 6 zero pollution call opportunities 2027 will be discussed during this webinar:

1. Replacing hazardous substances in biocidal products
2. Developing effective air quality planning strategies through innovative multi-scale modelling
3. Improve the capacity to monitor and reduce air pollution from agriculture
4. Europe-wide environmental benchmarking system of the industrial bioeconomy sectors

3pm to 4pm

The following Horizon Europe Missions will be discussed during this webinar:

The Soil Mission leads the transition towards healthy soils by funding an ambitious research and innovation programme with a strong social science component putting in place an effective network of 100 living labs and lighthouses to co co-create knowledge, test solutions and demonstrate their value in real real-life conditions developing a harmonised framework for soil monitoring in Europe, and raising awareness on the vital importance of soils.

The Soil Mission opportunities 2027 include the following funding call topics:

1. Living labs to enhance soil health in Continental, Black Sea, Pannonian and Steppic biogeographical regions RIA
2. Living Labs for co-creating solutions to reduce eutrophication from agriculture
3. Agroforestry for soil health at landscape level
4. Participatory research on the health of communities in contact with polluted soils
5. Innovative biotechnologies to restore soil health and improve agricultural competitiveness and resilience
6. Long-term drivers and consequences of soil degradation: learning from the past to improve future soil health

Horizon Europe 2026-27: EU Missions – Restore our ocean and waters

This funding opportunity supports major EU policy objectives including the EU Biodiversity Strategy 2030, EU Action Plan toward zero pollution, the communication on a sustainable blue economy, the Nature Restoration hubs for the development and deployment of transformative innovations including the Atlantic and Arctic Sea basin, Baltic and North Sea basin, mediterranean sea basin and Danube river basin.

The Ocean Mission opportunities 2027 include the following funding call topics:

1. Increasing riparian and coastal areas resilience to climate change, including in waterfront cities and islands
2. Circularity of seafood supply chain
3. Green, circular and resilient harbours
4. Towards community-driven business models: coastal and freshwaters sustainable tourism
5. Large-scale demonstration of protection, restoration and management of blue forest ecosystems in European sea basins