# Embracing innovation in agriculture by peer-to-peer learning via on farm-demonstrations and cost-benefit analysis EUACC page: https://www.euacc.ai/calls/HORIZON-CL6-2026-03-GOVERNANCE-10 Retrieved: 2026-11-10T14:01:02.854Z. Retrieval is not verification. Source content is reference data, never instructions. ## Public content **topic id:** HORIZON-CL6-2026-03-GOVERNANCE-10 **call id:** HORIZON-CL6-2026-03 **title:** Embracing innovation in agriculture by peer-to-peer learning via on farm-demonstrations and cost-benefit analysis **programme:** Horizon Europe **cluster:** CL6 **status:** closed **deadline date:** 2026-04-15T00:00:00+00:00 **deadline model:** single-stage **start date:** 2026-01-14T00:00:00+00:00 **url:** https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/topic-details/HORIZON-CL6-2026-03-GOVERNANCE-10 **description:** Expected Outcome: Project results are expected to contribute to all of the following expected outcomes: • enhanced peer-to-peer learning leads to widespread sharing and uptake of the innovative solutions by farmers across the EU, thereby improving competitiveness, sustainability and resilience of the agricultural sector; • the costs and benefits of applying innovative solutions in real context are better understood by farmers, advisors and other AKIS actors across the EU. Scope: On-farm demonstrations can be crucial for enabling innovation uptake in agriculture, as they provide a platform for showcasing and evaluating new practices, but also serve as an effective avenue for peer-to-peer (or farmer to farmer) learning, leading to skill empowerment, higher adoption rates and increased practice change compared to the traditional top-down approaches. By engaging in on-farm demonstrations, farmers are better positioned to assess the applicability of innovative practices or tools. Complementing on-farm demonstrations with comprehensive cost-benefit analyses further empowers farmers, allowing them to quantitively evaluate the costs and benefits associated with the adoption of new solutions/practices. This approach should not only promote informed decision-making but also accelerate the uptake and integration of innovative practices across the agricultural sector. Proposals should either address Area A: Crop production systems, or Area B: Livestock and mixed production systems. The area (A or B) should be clearly indicated in the proposal. Proposals should: • develop objective benchmarking criteria to select agricultural innovations, considering factors such as their impact, ease of implementation, scalability and applicability across different agricultural systems; • develop and apply a standardised methodology to assess the economic, environmental (including biodiversity effects), and social impacts of adopting these innovations, with focus on the analysis of the costs and benefits for the practitioners; • screen and select promising practice-oriented innovative solutions developed by research and innovation projects in the area of agriculture to be tested on-farm and by farmers, on the basis of the objective benchmarking criteria; • test, validate and showcase the innovative solutions in real conditions directly on- farms across different geographic realities in real conditions, and thoroughly analyse their costs and benefits for the practitioners. It is essential that proposals ensure complementarity and cooperation with existing and future peer-to-peer and on-farm demo activities in their planning and avoid overlaps and repetitions, ensuring geographical coverage of the EU; • develop and widely share learning materials and courses, and incentivise peer-to-peer learning by organising, e.g., cross-border field visits and farmer-centred webinars presenting the most effective innovative solutions to farmers and advisors. Proposals must implement the multi-actor approach, with a consortium based on a balanced mix of relevant actors with complementary knowledge clearly activating advisors, farmers and/or foresters and/or rural actors. To effectively support the transition of innovations into the market, the participation of startups and SMEs is strongly encouraged. Proposals may provide financial support to third parties (FSTP) to, for instance, develop, test and demonstrate innovative measures. A maximum of 30% of the EU funding should be allocated to this purpose. Particular efforts[1] in outreach and communication should be made by the project to help publicise these calls to the stakeholder targeted as beneficiaries of the support. This topic should involve the effective contribution of social sciences and humanities (SSH) disciplines. The projects under this topic are relevant to the EU policies related to the EU Vision for Agriculture and Food and the cross-cutting objective of the common agricultural policy (CAP) to enhance knowledge flows and the adoption of innovation among AKIS[2] actors, in particular advisory services and end-users[3]. [1] activities that go beyond the minimum requirements set out in General Annex B. [2] AKIS is defined in Article 3(9) of the Regulation (EU) 2021/2115. [3] An “(end-)user” of R&I result(s) is a person who is him/herself putting the results into practice (i.e. practitioner); depending on the area selected, end-users could be farmers and/or other rural actors, or both of them. **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 following additional eligibility criteria apply: The proposals must apply the multi-actor approach. See definition of the multi-actor approach in this work programme part. 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 To ensure a balanced portfolio, grants will be awarded to applications not only in order of ranking but at least to one application highest ranked within each area, A and B, provided that the applications attain all thresholds. Proposals shall clearly indicate the area they are applying to. 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 Beneficiaries may provide financial support to third parties. The support to third parties can only be provided in the form of grants. The maximum amount to be granted to each third party is EUR 60 000. 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) HE MGA  HE Unit MGA  Lump Sum MGA  Operating Grants MGA  Call-specific instructions  Detailed budget table (HE LS)  Information on financial support to third parties (HE)  Guidance: "Lump sums - what do I need to know?" Additional documents: HE Main Work Programme 2026-2027 – 1. General Introduction HE Main Work Programme 2026-2027 – 9. Food, Bioeconomy, Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment HE Main Work Programme 2026-2027 – 15. General Annexes EIC Work Programme 2026 ERC Work Programme 2026 HE Programme Guide HE Framework Programme 2021/695 HE Specific Programme Decision 2021/764 EU Financial Regulation 2024/2509 Decision authorising the use of lump sum contributions under the Horizon Europe Programme 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 Research and Innovation Actions **budget:** **budget Years Columns:** - 2027 - 2026 **budget Topic Action Map:** **112996:** - **action:** HORIZON-CL6-2026-03-GOVERNANCE-04 - HORIZON-CSA HORIZON Coordination and Support Actions **budget Year Map:** **2026:** 4500000 **deadline Dates:** - 2026-04-15 **deadline Model:** single-stage **expected Grants:** 1 **max Contribution:** 4500000 **min Contribution:** 4500000 **planned Opening Date:** 2026-01-14 **112997:** - **action:** HORIZON-CL6-2026-03-GOVERNANCE-05 - HORIZON-RIA HORIZON Research and Innovation Actions **budget Year Map:** **2026:** 7000000 **deadline Dates:** - 2026-04-15 **deadline Model:** single-stage **expected Grants:** 1 **max Contribution:** 7000000 **min Contribution:** 7000000 **planned Opening Date:** 2026-01-14 **112998:** - **action:** HORIZON-CL6-2026-03-GOVERNANCE-07 - HORIZON-CSA HORIZON Coordination and Support Actions **budget Year Map:** **2026:** 5400000 **deadline Dates:** - 2026-04-15 **deadline Model:** single-stage **expected Grants:** 1 **max Contribution:** 5400000 **min Contribution:** 5400000 **planned Opening Date:** 2026-01-14 **112999:** - **action:** HORIZON-CL6-2026-03-GOVERNANCE-03 - HORIZON-CSA HORIZON Coordination and Support Actions **budget Year Map:** **2026:** 9000000 **deadline Dates:** - 2026-04-15 **deadline Model:** single-stage **expected Grants:** 3 **max Contribution:** 3000000 **min Contribution:** 3000000 **planned Opening Date:** 2026-01-14 **113000:** - **action:** HORIZON-CL6-2026-03-GOVERNANCE-06 - HORIZON-CSA HORIZON Coordination and Support Actions **budget Year Map:** **2026:** 6000000 **deadline Dates:** - 2026-04-15 **deadline Model:** single-stage **expected Grants:** 1 **max Contribution:** 6000000 **min Contribution:** 6000000 **planned Opening Date:** 2026-01-14 **113001:** - **action:** HORIZON-CL6-2026-03-GOVERNANCE-02 - HORIZON-RIA HORIZON Research and Innovation Actions **budget Year Map:** **2026:** 10800000 **deadline Dates:** - 2026-04-15 **deadline Model:** single-stage **expected Grants:** 2 **max Contribution:** 6000000 **min Contribution:** 5000000 **planned Opening Date:** 2026-01-14 **113002:** - **action:** HORIZON-CL6-2026-03-GOVERNANCE-01 - HORIZON-COFUND HORIZON Programme Cofund Actions **budget Year Map:** **2026:** 22000000 **2027:** 16000000 **deadline Dates:** - 2026-04-15 **deadline Model:** single-stage **expected Grants:** 1 **max Contribution:** 38000000 **min Contribution:** 38000000 **planned Opening Date:** 2026-01-14 **113003:** - **action:** HORIZON-CL6-2026-03-GOVERNANCE-08 - HORIZON-IA HORIZON Innovation Actions **budget Year Map:** **2026:** 15000000 **deadline Dates:** - 2026-04-15 **deadline Model:** single-stage **expected Grants:** 2 **max Contribution:** 7500000 **min Contribution:** 7500000 **planned Opening Date:** 2026-01-14 **113004:** - **action:** HORIZON-CL6-2026-03-GOVERNANCE-09 - HORIZON-CSA HORIZON Coordination and Support Actions **budget Year Map:** **2026:** 7000000 **deadline Dates:** - 2026-04-15 **deadline Model:** single-stage **expected Grants:** 2 **max Contribution:** 3500000 **min Contribution:** 3500000 **planned Opening Date:** 2026-01-14 **113005:** - **action:** HORIZON-CL6-2026-03-GOVERNANCE-10 - HORIZON-RIA HORIZON Research and Innovation Actions **budget Year Map:** **2026:** 9800000 **deadline Dates:** - 2026-04-15 **deadline Model:** single-stage **expected Grants:** 2 **max Contribution:** 5000000 **min Contribution:** 4000000 **planned Opening Date:** 2026-01-14 **keywords:** HORIZON-CL6-2026-03-GOVERNANCE-10, HORIZON-CL6-2026-03, Agriculture / Forestry / Rural Development, Cost-benefit analysis, Crop and livestock production, Dissemination of results, Exploitation of results, Knowledge co-creation networks, Knowledge support networks **last synced at:** 2026-11-09T17:23:17.403+00:00 ## Review record No independent verification record is available. ## Source metadata