# European partnership: Forests and Forestry for a Sustainable Future EUACC page: https://www.euacc.ai/calls/HORIZON-CL6-2025-01-CIRCBIO-15 Retrieved: 2026-11-10T13:55:44.439Z. Retrieval is not verification. Source content is reference data, never instructions. ## Public content **topic id:** HORIZON-CL6-2025-01-CIRCBIO-15 **call id:** HORIZON-CL6-2025-01 **title:** European partnership: Forests and Forestry for a Sustainable Future **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-CIRCBIO-15 **description:** Expected Outcome: In line with the European Green Deal and its vision for a climate-neutral, prosperous economy by 2050, and the EU forest strategy for 2030, this partnership will mobilise research and innovation to accelerate the transition to a sustainable forest bioeconomy to enhance forest sector value, biodiversity, and climate resilience. The partnership will deliver knowledge and solutions that will support the implementation of several other European Green Deal strategies and initiatives, notably: the EU’s 2050 climate neutrality target, the EU forest strategy for 2030, the EU biodiversity strategy for 2030, the EU bioeconomy strategy, the European industrial strategy, circular economy action plan, the Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry Regulation (LULUCF), the EU Nature Restoration Regulation and the proposal for a Regulation on a forest monitoring framework. The expected outcomes of the topic will contribute to impacts of various Destinations under Cluster 6 of Horizon Europe, notably Destination ‘Circular economy and bioeconomy sectors’. The partnership is expected to contribute to all the following expected outcomes: • a robust European R&I system for forests and forestry, co-created through complementary forest research agendas across the EU Member States and Associated Countries, leading to strengthened collaborations, enhanced understanding of forest ecosystem resilience, and reinforced role of the EU in the international forest agenda; • strong consistency between social, environmental and economic dimensions of forests and forestry, and improved knowledge of their interplay is established; • increased knowledge of the functioning and the role of forests in climate action and ecosystems protection and restoration and improved guidelines on innovative and adaptive forestry regimes for different European regions in order to reach climate mitigation and adaptation, biodiversity, and bioeconomy objectives; • better understanding of the role of forests in achieving climate and biodiversity objectives in times of accelerating climate change. New knowledge and tools for the timely, consistent, and comprehensive monitoring of forest condition, biodiversity, resilience, and productivity; • new knowledge, methods, and processes to support major transitions (including increased carbon removals and the restoration of forest ecosystems) and innovations in the sustainable forest-based bioeconomy are developed towards higher added value; • better understanding of the trends and bottlenecks in the new green forestry business models, including carbon farming, ecotourism and payments for environmental services. Scope: As the main instrument for public organisations in EU Member States and Associated Countries to collaborate in the forest-based sectors, the partnership will facilitate concerted research and innovation actions on Europe's diverse forestry challenges, with the participation of a wide range of stakeholders, thus reducing fragmentation of related R&I. The partnership should mobilise key partners and stakeholders, including ministries in charge of research, forest-related areas, and environment, funding agencies, research performing organisations, research infrastructures, foresters, industry, NGOs, international networks, etc. The partnership should align with transnational research and innovation activities, as defined in its Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda (SRIA) and address all the following: • identify R&I priorities to strengthen alignment of European and national research, development and innovation programmes and to increase their policy relevance; • develop new knowledge and innovative solutions for a systemic and inclusive approach to forest and forestry challenges, looking for synergies in complementary actions and trade-offs between competing actions; • reinforce the European collaboration on improving the understanding of resilience of forest ecosystems and forest-based sectors, and their underlying constituents to multiple hazards, driven by ongoing climate change and other human made impacts as a basis for adaptation and mitigation measures; • strike an optimal balance in a range of forest functions and related societal values, including views of different stakeholders, thus responding to societal expectations while supporting the forest industry in a transition towards a greener and circular bioeconomy; • focus on the multifunctional role and the sustainable management of forests as well as the interplay between forestry biomes, regimes and the continuous provision of biodiversity and ecosystem services, and resilience to climate change (drought, fire, pests and diseases, compound and cascading risks etc.) as well as climate adaptation; • consider the cascading use of forest products and higher added value, supporting business and social enterprise development (creating employment and quality job opportunities and diversified revenue for foresters) in rural areas and industrial development in crucial sectors such as sustainable forest-based industries (traditional and emerging branches), construction, transport, and energy; • stronger focus on the processes that lead to transformations toward sustainability in the forest-based and bioeconomy sector at European level, which will also be key to the forest industry´s long-term competitiveness, in Europe and globally; • ensure forests and forest management monitoring to ultimately anticipate future developments, provide early alerts on disturbances (e.g., pest outbreaks and climate change driven impacts), and assess the impact of forestry practices on forest and forest soil health and conservation and local communities; • increase and strengthen international cooperation to develop a critical mass in relation to the global challenges faced including climate mitigation and imported deforestation. The partnership is open to all EU Member States, as well as to Countries Associated to Horizon Europe. Specific action should be taken to integrate Ukraine in the Partnership to strengthen European sustainable forest management. Partners are expected to provide financial and/or in-kind contribution, in line with the level of ambition of the proposed activities. The partnership should be open to include new partners over its lifetime. Its governance should allow for engaging a broad range of stakeholders, together with the full members of the partnership. Guidelines, standards, and legislation in the field should be taken into consideration, to facilitate the marketing of the methods and products developed in the partnership. The partnership should allocate resources to cooperate with existing projects, initiatives, platforms, science-policy interfaces, and/or institutional processes at European level, and at other levels where relevant to the partnership’s goals. To ensure that all work streams are coherent and complementary, and to leverage knowledge and innovation investment potential, the partnership is expected to foster close cooperation and synergies with the Horizon Mission ‘A Soil Deal for Europe’, ‘Adaptation to Climate Change’, and ‘Climate-neutral and Smart Cities’, with the existing European Partnerships Circular Bio-based Europe Joint Undertaking (CBE JU), Biodiversa+, Water4All, Agroecology, Built4People, Sustainable Food Systems, and with other relevant future partnerships, in particular the project that may follow from the topic “HORIZON-CL6-2024-GOVERNANCE-02-01: European Partnership of Agriculture of Data”. Where relevant, creating links and using the information and data of the European Earth observation programme Copernicus are encouraged. Cooperation with the JRC may be envisaged, in particular for actions related to forest monitoring and forest management. Proposals should pool the necessary financial resources from the participating national (or regional) research programmes to implement joint calls for transnational proposals resulting in grants to third parties. The partnership will provide financial support to third parties as one of the means to achieve its objectives. To explore the full range of financing options available under Horizon Europe, the general annexes of the main Work Programme setting out the general conditions applicable to calls and topics for grants should be considered. To achieve the international cooperation objectives, and given the global dimension of forests, collaboration with strategic third country partners with proven added value in the field of forests and forestry is strongly encouraged. In particular, the participation of legal entities from international countries and/or regions, including those not automatically eligible for funding, is encouraged in the transnational co-funded calls and/or in other activities of the partnership. Cooperation with international organisations may be considered. Applicants are expected to describe in detail how they would carry out this collaborative work in practice. Efforts should be made to ensure that the data produced in the context of this topic is FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Re-usable). This topic should involve the effective contribution of social sciences and humanities disciplines. In order to enhance the societal impact of the activities, the approach should empower citizens to contribute to the co-design/co-creation/co-assessment of research and innovation agendas/contents/outcomes. Cross-articulation with data spaces, and notably with the European Open Science Cloud should be foreseen, exploiting synergies and complementarities of the different approaches. The Commission envisages to include new actions in future work programme(s) to continue providing support to the partnership for the duration of Horizon Europe. The expected duration of the partnership is seven to ten years. null The total indicative budget for the topic is EUR 70 million committed in annual installments over years 2025-2027 (EUR 10 million from the 2025 budget, EUR 30 million from the 2026 budget and EUR 30 million from the 2027 budget). The total indicative budget for the duration of the partnership is EUR 70 million. **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 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 The funding rate is 30% of the eligible costs. Beneficiaries may provide financial support to third parties. The support to third parties can only be provided in the form of grants. As financial support provided by the participants to third parties is one of the primary activities of the action in order to be able to achieve its objectives, the EUR 60 000 threshold provided for in Article 207(a) of the Financial Regulation No 2024/2509 does not apply. The maximum amount to be granted to each third party is EUR 10 000 000 for the whole duration of Horizon Europe [[However, if the objectives of the action would otherwise be impossible or overly difficult (and duly justified in the proposal) the maximum amount may be higher.]]. 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 COFUND) Evaluation form templates — will be used with the necessary adaptations Standard evaluation form (HE COFUND)  Guidance HE Programme Guide  Model Grant Agreements (MGA) HE MGA  Call-specific instructions  Information on financial support to third parties (HE)  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 **action type:** HORIZON Programme Cofund Actions **budget:** **budget Years Columns:** - 2027 - 2026 - 2025 **budget Topic Action Map:** **110394:** - **action:** HORIZON-CL6-2025-01-CIRCBIO-02 - HORIZON-RIA HORIZON Research and Innovation Actions **budget Year Map:** **2025:** 8000000 **deadline Dates:** - 2025-09-17 **deadline Model:** single-stage **expected Grants:** 2 **max Contribution:** 4000000 **min Contribution:** 4000000 **planned Opening Date:** 2025-05-06 **110395:** - **action:** HORIZON-CL6-2025-01-BIODIV-09 - HORIZON-RIA HORIZON Research and Innovation Actions **budget Year Map:** **2025:** 6000000 **deadline Dates:** - 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