# Assessing and modelling socio-economic impacts of nature restoration
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**topic id:** HORIZON-CL6-2025-01-BIODIV-06
**call id:** HORIZON-CL6-2025-01
**title:** Assessing and modelling socio-economic impacts of nature restoration
**programme:** Horizon Europe
**cluster:** CL6
**status:** closed
**deadline date:** 2025-09-17T00:00:00+00:00
**deadline model:** single-stage
**start date:** 2025-05-06T00:00:00+00:00
**url:** https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/topic-details/HORIZON-CL6-2025-01-BIODIV-06
**description:** Expected Outcome:
Successful proposals will contribute to the impacts of this destination by providing tools to assess the socio-economic impacts, including benefits and costs, of measures aiming at restoring degraded ecosystems ensuring the provision of ecosystem services, including for adaptation and/or mitigation to climate change.
Project results are expected to contribute to all the following expected outcomes:
• short, medium, and long-term socio-economic impacts, including benefits and costs, of nature restoration, along with their social and territorial distribution, are better known including by scientists and stakeholders of the public and private sectors;
• policy-makers have at their disposal science-based tools to predict impacts, including benefits and costs, of the implementation of policies aiming at restoring nature;
• stakeholders in charge of financing or implementing nature restoration have tools at their disposal to integrate impacts, including benefits and costs, of nature restoration in their business plans;
• socio-economic benefits and costs are traceable directly to the intervention or the origin of stressor, for instance reduction of pollution input.
 Scope:
The EU biodiversity strategy for 2030 set the following targets for 2030: significant areas of degraded and carbon-rich ecosystems are restored; habitats and species show no deterioration in conservation trend and status, and at least 30% reach favourable conservation status or at least show a positive trend. The EU Nature Restoration Regulation sets binding targets for 2030 and 2050, with an incremental implementation. The European Climate Law requires that policies on adaptation in the Union and in Member States are coherent, mutually supportive, provide co-benefits for sectoral policies, and work towards better integration of adaptation to climate change in a consistent manner in all policy areas, including relevant socioeconomic and environmental policies and actions.
R&I activities are expected to:
• conduct sector-specific assessments to measure the comprehensive economic and social (including employment) impacts and benefits of nature restoration, including their territorial and social distribution, encompassing both the financial effect of economic activities and the non-market benefits (including climate mitigation and adaptation, health and well-being benefits) derived from ecosystem services including provisioning, regulating and cultural services as well as nature's contribution to people;
• employ a multidisciplinary approach combining at least expertise in economics, ecology, social sciences, geography, sustainability and environmental science as well as system and complexity science to capture the full range of impacts and benefits;
• develop and validate modelling approaches, that can build on existing environmental and socio-economic models, to analyse the economic, social and employment impacts and benefits of nature restoration, including their territorial and social distribution, integrating also biodiversity, ecosystem services and nature’s contribution to people good quality of life including food security;
• enable understanding of the incremental progress in nature restoration between the 2030 and 2050 target years to guide public and private stakeholders in their continued actions through quantification of socio-economic benefits and impacts of individual measures;
• improve the understanding of the possibilities and limitations of tools for socio-economic assessments of nature restoration, particularly with regard to the non-market benefits. 
 Proposals should build on results of past and on-going projects and on the knowledge compiled in the assessment reports produced by the Intergovernmental science-policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), including the IPBES values assessment and the IPBES scenarios and models assessment.
This topic requires the effective contribution of SSH disciplines, including economics, socio-economics, geography and sociology. It is essential to involve SSH experts and institutions, as well as incorporate relevant gender expertise, in order to produce meaningful and significant effects enhancing the societal impact of the related research activities.
Concrete efforts should be made to ensure that the data produced in the context of the funded projects is FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Re-usable), particularly in the context of real-time data feeds, exploring workflows that can provide “FAIR-by-design” data, i.e., data that is FAIR from its generation.
Proposals should envisage enough resources to collaborate with other selected projects under this topic to provide an effective integration of the models generated. Projects will be asked to cooperate with projects that will be selected under the following topics under this call: HORIZON-CL6-2025-01-BIODIV-05: Assessing and modelling ecosystems’ dynamic processes to guide restoration activities and to improve models used for climate and HORIZON-CL6-2025-01-BIODIV-10: Supporting the implementation of nature restoration measures for sustainable farming systems.
Proposals should foresee cooperation with the EC Knowledge Centre for Biodiversity and the Science Service project BioAgora.
**conditions:** General conditions
1. Admissibility Conditions: Proposal page limit and layout
described in Annex A and Annex E of the Horizon Europe Work Programme General Annexes.
Proposal page limits and layout: described in Part B of the Application Form available in the Submission System.

2. Eligible Countries
described in Annex B of the Work Programme General Annexes.
A number of non-EU/non-Associated Countries that are not automatically eligible for funding have made specific provisions for making funding available for their participants in Horizon Europe projects. See the information in the Horizon Europe Programme Guide.

3. Other Eligible Conditions
If projects use satellite-based earth observation, positioning, navigation and/or related timing data and services, beneficiaries must make use of Copernicus and/or Galileo/EGNOS (other data and services may additionally be used).

described in Annex B of the Work Programme General Annexes.

4. Financial and operational capacity and exclusion
described in Annex C of the Work Programme General Annexes.

5a. Evaluation and award: Award criteria, scoring and thresholds
are described in Annex D of the Work Programme General Annexes.

5b. Evaluation and award: Submission and evaluation processes
are described in Annex F of the Work Programme General Annexes and the Online Manual.

5c. Evaluation and award: Indicative timeline for evaluation and grant agreement
described in Annex F of the Work Programme General Annexes.

6. Legal and financial set-up of the grants
Eligible costs will take the form of a lump sum as defined in the Decision of 7 July 2021 authorising the use of lump sum contributions under the Horizon Europe Programme – the Framework Programme for Research and Innovation (2021-2027) – and in actions under the Research and Training Programme of the European Atomic Energy Community (2021-2025) [[This decision is available on the Funding and Tenders Portal, in the reference documents section for Horizon Europe, under ‘Simplified costs decisions’ or through this link: https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/docs/2021-2027/horizon/guidance/ls-decision_he_en.pdf]].

described in Annex G of the Work Programme General Annexes.

Specific conditions
 described in the [specific topic of the Work Programme]

Application and evaluation forms and model grant agreement (MGA):
 Application form templates — the application form specific to this call is available in the Submission System
Standard application form (HE RIA, IA)
Evaluation form templates — will be used with the necessary adaptations 
Standard evaluation form (HE RIA, IA) 
Guidance
HE Programme Guide 
Model Grant Agreements (MGA)
Lump Sum MGA 
Call-specific instructions 
Detailed budget table (HE LS) 
Guidance: "Lump sums - what do I need to know?"

Additional documents:
 HE Main Work Programme 2025 – 1. General Introduction
HE Main Work Programme 2025 – 9. Food, Bioeconomy, Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment
HE Main Work Programme 2025 – 14. General Annexes
HE Programme Guide
HE Framework Programme 2021/695 
HE Specific Programme Decision 2021/764 
EU Financial Regulation 2024/2509
Rules for Legal Entity Validation, LEAR Appointment and Financial Capacity Assessment 
EU Grants AGA — Annotated Model Grant Agreement 
Funding & Tenders Portal Online Manual 
Funding & Tenders Portal Terms and Conditions 
Funding & Tenders Portal Privacy Statement
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**keywords:** HORIZON-CL6-2025-01-BIODIV-06, HORIZON-CL6-2025-01, Business models, Business strategies, Climate change mitigation, Computational modelling, Economics of innovation, Environmental change and society, Habitat and species restoration and rehabilitation, Health and Ecosystem Services, Mathematical modelling, Natural resources and environmental economics, New Economic models beyond GDP, New business opportunities, Population dynamics, aging, health and society, Socio-ecological systems, Socioeconomic stressors, Sustainable development and climate action
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