GroundWork Open Call

Identifier: HORIZON-MISS-2024-SOIL-01-01 Status: Open Submission procedure: single-stage Opening date: 2026-09-01 Deadline: 2026-11-19 Budget: €891,000 Our 3-year Regenerative Grazing Programme is designed to help farmers improve their farm's soil and environment by changing how their animals feed on the land (so-called "adaptive livestock management"). By joining this Regenerative Grazing Programme, farmers will become part of a local network of farmers and experts where they can share ideas, compare results, and learn from each other's experiences. The overall objective of the Programme is to encourage Farmers to actively engage in regenerative farming, through simplicity, continuous guidance, access to finance & business consultation and data-driven communication. The main activity expected from the Farming Projects is the implementation of Regenerative Livestock Grazing Practices based on regional farming realities and contexts. Other activities: • Soil health assessment. • Pervasive soil health monitoring using sensors. • Animal welfare assessment. • Environmental performance assessment (Environmental Life Cycle Assessment￾ELCA). • Social impact assessment. • Sharing expertise, ideas exchange, and RLGPs co-design. The Programme is divided into 3 main stages over the 36 months. Farmers will receive their grant in installments upon the successful completion of each stage. The GroundWork Project "Regenerative living labs to improve soil ecosystem functions by adapting agricultural land use with livestock integration" addresses a critical environmental and economic challenge: currently, 60-70% of soils in the EU are degraded due to climate change and unsustainable agricultural practices, costing the EU an estimated €50 billion annually. Because intensive livestock farming is a major driver of this degradation, GroundWork aims to catalyse the transformation of the European livestock and agricultural sector. A central pillar of GroundWork's strategy is the use of Financial Support to Third Parties (FSTP), which is designed to directly involve farmers in the Living Labs and minimize the economic risks of dedicating their land to experimentation. The project will distribute FSTP funding to 75 regenerative farming projects in total. 42 initial experimental sites have been pre-selected to immediately launch the LLs operations, while up to 33 additional farming projects will be engaged through the GroundWork Open Call. Find more information at: https://opportunities.getonepass.eu/open-opportunities/groundwork-farms https://groundwork-project.eu/ GroundWork will support up to 33 Farming Projects in this Open Call, distributed: ●PT LL – up to 7 Farming Projects ●DE LL – up to 5 Farming Projects ●BE LL – up to 7 Farming Projects ●RS LL – up to 7 Farming Projects ●SE LL – up to 7 Farming Projects The total budget available for this Open Call is EUR 891.000,00 (EUR 27.000,00 per Farming Project).