# Additional activities for the European partnership on accelerating farming systems transition - agroecology living labs and research infrastructures
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**topic id:** HORIZON-CL6-2025-02-FARM2FORK-01
**call id:** HORIZON-CL6-2025-02
**title:** Additional activities for the European partnership on accelerating farming systems transition - agroecology living labs and research infrastructures
**programme:** Horizon Europe
**cluster:** CL6
**status:** closed
**deadline date:** 2025-09-16T00:00:00+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-CL6-2025-02-FARM2FORK-01
**description:** Expected Outcome:
The successful proposal is expected to further contribute to the expected outcomes specified in topic HORIZON-CL6-2023-FARM2FORK-01-1: European partnership for accelerating farming systems transition - agroecology living labs and research infrastructures, for continuation of the activities in line with already agreed outcomes.
Scope:
The objective of this action is to continue to provide support to the European partnership for accelerating farming systems transition - agroecology living labs and research infrastructures identified in the Horizon Europe Strategic Plan 2021-2024 and first implemented under the topic HORIZON-CL6-2023-FARM2FORK-01-1: European partnership for accelerating farming systems transition - agroecology living labs and research infrastructures, and in particular to fund additional activities (which may also be undertaken by additional partners) in view of its intended scope and duration, and in accordance with Article 24(2) of the Horizon Europe Regulation.
The consortium which applied to and received funding under HORIZON-CL6-2023-FARM2FORK-01-1: European partnership for accelerating farming systems transition - agroecology living labs and research infrastructures, is uniquely placed to submit a proposal to continue the partnership. Not only did this consortium submit the proposal leading to the identification of the partnership in the Horizon Europe strategic planning 2021-2024, it has also been implementing the partnership through two co-funded calls launched in year 2024 and several internal activities based on this planning and further to topic HORIZON-CL6-2023-FARM2FORK-01-1. In this context, the current consortium has particular expertise in relation to the objectives of the partnership, the activities to be implemented in particular financial support to third parties and internal activities clearly required/envisioned pursuant to initial proposal/partnership. In practice, another consortium could not continue the activities of the partnership underway without significant disruption to the ongoing activities, if at all.
The proposal submitted to this call should align with the partnership’s co-created strategic research and innovation agenda. Activities should reflect a balanced proportion of financial support to third parties and of internal activities, including calls for research projects, setting-up an EU-wide network of agroecology living labs and research infrastructures, development of indicators, metrics, and tools to monitor the agroecology transition and sustainability performance, and supporting evidence-based policy-making at EU, national and regional level. Through its activities, the partnership should deliver and support the upscaling of concrete, ready-to-use tools, solutions and innovations for farmers in different pedo-climatic conditions and contexts, and ensure a wide-spread uptake of partnership’s results by farmers and by all relevant stakeholders. These aspects should be reflected in the successive updates of the partnership’s strategic research and innovation agenda. 
The partnership should pool the necessary financial resources from the participating national (or regional) research programmes with a view to organising and implementing joint calls for transnational proposals resulting in grants to third parties, for which it should factor ample time to run the co-funded projects. 
The partnership should seek to include additional partners, including from Member States and Associated countries not yet in the consortium funded under HORIZON-CL6-2023-FARM2FORK-01-1. Through its activities, and by remaining open to accepting new partners, the partnership should devote efforts to promote agroecological farming also in countries where there is still limited understanding and uptake of the concept. Likewise, in setting up and building an EU-wide network of agroecology living labs, the partnership should ensure a balanced representation of pedo-climatic conditions and bio-geographical regions, with a view to cover a wide range of farming systems that are representative of the European agricultural sector. The partnership should cover issues pertaining to the agroecology transition in all agricultural production systems and approaches, including but not limited to conventional and organic farming. This will among others contribute to supporting the development of the organic farming sector and increasing its sustainability, as well as to ensuring a widespread adoption of agroecological practices across sectors across Europe.
Specific activities to strengthen the complementarities of the European partnership for accelerating farming systems transition - agroecology living labs and research infrastructures, with the related Horizon Europe Missions and Partnerships, identified in the proposal submitted by the coordinator of the consortium funded under HORIZON-CL6-2023-FARM2FORK-01-1, as well as activities to enhance the partnership’s collaborations at international level, should also be described.
While the award of a grant to continue the partnership in accordance with this call should be based on a proposal submitted by the coordinator of the consortium funded under HORIZON-CL6-2023-FARM2FORK-01-1 and the additional activities (which may include additional partners) to be funded by the grant should be subject to an evaluation, this evaluation should take into account the existing context and the scope of the initial evaluation as relevant, and related obligations enshrined in the grant agreement.
Taking into account that the present action is a continuation of topic HORIZON-CL6-2023-FARM2FORK-01-1 and foresees an amendment to an existing grant agreement, the proposal should also present in a separate document the additional activities and any additional partners, to be covered by the award in terms of how they would be reflected in the grant agreement.
Total indicative budget - Total indicative budget beyond the duration of this WP
The total indicative budget for the topic is EUR 90 million committed in annual instalments over the years 2025-2027 (EUR 30 million from the 2025 budget, EUR 30 million from the 2026 budget and EUR 30 million from the 2027 budget). The total indicative budget of the Partnership for the whole duration is EUR 150 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
The Joint Research Centre (JRC) may participate as member of the consortium selected for funding.

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).

The proposal must be submitted by the coordinator of the consortium funded under HORIZON-CL6-2023-FARM2FORK-01-1: European partnership on accelerating farming systems transition – agroecology living labs and research infrastructures, European Horizon Europe - Work Programme 2023-2024 Food, Bioeconomy, Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment. This eligibility condition is without prejudice to the possibility to include additional partners.

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
If the proposal is successful, the next stage of the procedure will be grant agreement amendment preparations. If the outcome of amendment preparations is an award decision, the coordinator of the consortium funded under HORIZON-CL6-2023- FARM2FORK-01-1: European partnership on accelerating farming systems transition – agroecology living labs and research infrastructures, will be invited to submit an amendment to the grant agreement, on behalf of the beneficiaries.

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
This action is intended to be implemented in the form of an amendment of the grant agreement concluded pursuant to topic HORIZON-CL6-2023-FARM2FORK-01-1.
For the additional activities covered by this action:
• The funding rate is 50% of the eligible costs. This is justified by the pooling of proposers' in-kind contributions and in-house activities and by the nature of activities to be performed.
• Beneficiaries may provide financial support to third parties (FSTP). The support to third parties can only be provided in the form of grants.
• Financial support provided by the participants to third parties is one of the primary activities of this 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 of FSTP to be granted to an individual 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.]].
 
The starting date of grants awarded under this topic may be as of the submission date of the application. Applicants must justify the need for a retroactive starting date in their application. Costs incurred from the starting date of the action may be considered eligible (and will be reflected in the entry into force date of the amendment to the grant agreement).

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 TOP-UP)
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) 
Annual Work Programme (HE COFUND)

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-CL6-2025-02-FARM2FORK-01, HORIZON-CL6-2025-02, Agro-forestry, Agrobiodiversity, Agroecology, Crop rotations, Ecosystem services provided by soils, Organic farming, Plant cropping systems
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