21 new projects selected for funding under Mission Soil

The European Commission's Research Executive Agency (REA) has selected 21 new projects with a total budget of over € 170 million for funding under the EU Mission 'A Soil Deal for Europe'. Contributing to the EU Mission: ‘A Soil Deal for Europe' and the European Green Deal objectives, the selected projects gather more than 500 participants from 37 countries. Besides EU Member States, partners come from Horizon Europe associated countries (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Israel, North Macedonia, Norway, Serbia, Tunisia, Türkiye, Ukraine, and the United Kingdom), but also non-associated (Egypt, Kenya, and Switzerland). 

Beyond co-creating solutions for soil health in living labs, including for carbon farming, the new research projects will address a wide variety of soil health challenges across Europe and beyond, such as: 

• Help discover the subsoil; 
• Improve the modelling of soil pollution processes; 
• Develop digital technologies to monitor nutrients and chemical or biological stressors in soil and plants; 
• Prevent and combat desertification; 
• Develop soil-friendly practices for horticulture; 
• Improve spatial planning strategies. 

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More details on the projects, including budget and beneficiaries, can be found in the overview of the projects.