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Agroecology Partnership - 3rd Call

Funding Program

Horizon Europe

deadlines

Opening
18.01.2026

Deadline
18.02.2026 14:00

Link to the call

agroecology.ptj.de

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Call content

short description

This call focuses on two key pillars of the agroecological transition: the genetic dimension and the social dimension. The first topic addresses genetic diversity and variability in crops and livestock, with the aim of laying the foundations for increasing the availability of species, varieties, and breeds that will support the development of agroecological farming systems. The second topic addresses the social challenges of today’s agriculture, with a particular focus on farmers' motivation, skills, and knowledge and the role of stakeholders in encouraging their engagement in the agroecological transition.

Call objectives

The partnership will fund R&I projects providing significant contributions to either one of the following two topics:

  • Topic 1 Enhancing the genetic diversity of crops and livestock for the agroecological transition
  • Topic 2 Strengthening farmer’s involvement and empowerment in the transition towards agroecology

With this third call, the AGROECOLOGY Partnership continues to implement the priorities outlined in its Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda (SRIA), adopted by the AGROECOLOGY partnership Governing Board in March 2024. As stated in the preamble of this Call text, Agroecology has been identified as a promising approach to support the transition towards more sustainable agriculture in line with the European Green Deal and its underlying strategies. Research and innovation efforts are essential to improve the performance of agroecological farming systems in terms of environmental and climate-related benefits, the sustainability of agricultural production systems, the economic viability of farms, and food security.

Building on the SRIA and on the previous calls, two specific topics have been identified that require further attention and are the targets of this call. Both relate to Core Theme 1 (Redesigning Agroecosystems) and are also connected to Core Theme 2 (Redesigning Agroecological Value Chains).

The first topic, corresponding to Item 4.1.1 of the SRIA, focuses on genetic diversity and variability, with the aim of laying the foundations for increasing the availability of crop and animal species, varieties and breeds that will support the development of agroecological farming systems. The second one addresses the social challenges associated with the agroecological transition— particularly at the farm level, but also beyond. Both topics are outlined in detail below.

Research and innovation proposals are expected to address one of the two following topics in a multi-actor approach that should be interactive, transdisciplinary, and to apply co-creation and co-implementation processes, using Living-Lab or Living-Lab-like approaches.

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Expected effects and impacts

With this third call, the AGROECOLOGY partnership continues the implementation of the priorities identified in AGROECOLOGY’s strategic research and innovation agenda (SRIA).

Research and innovation efforts are necessary to enhance the performance and scaling-up of agroecology from the perspectives of environmental and climate-related benefits, sustainability of agricultural production systems, economic viability and competitiveness of farms, and food security. These efforts should focus on changes in practices at the farm level but broadly encompass entire value chains that play a crucial role in the transition of agricultural production systems.

The genetic diversity of cultivated plants and farm animals is a cornerstone for the development of more resilient, economically viable, and environmentally sustainable production systems. The agroecological transition largely relies on farmers’ access to new species, varieties, and breeds that can support the redesign of their farming systems and evolution towards agroecology. Moreover, farmers’ motivations and capacities to engage in the agroecological transition strongly depend on social and behavourial factors, including their skills and knowledge, their personal characteristics and those of their farms, as well as the support provided by advisory systems and public policies. 

This third call of the AGROECOLOGY partnership will fund research and innovation projects contributing to the objectives of the call by delivering scientific evidence and knowledge as well as solutions and/or innovations that will enable either : (1) the enhancement of plant and animal diversity on farms and the contribution of this diversification to the agroecological and food systems transition; or (2) the strengthening of farmers’ capacities to engage in the agroecological transition, and the development of tools, support schemes, and policies that facilitate this transition for diverse categories of farmers.

It is expected that, through this, proposals will provide a clear added value regarding at least one of the general objectives and corresponding core themes of the AGROECOLOGY partnership, as outlined in the corresponding AGROECOLOGY SRIA, under whose framework this co-funded call is being conducted.

Furthermore, successful proposals shall contribute to all of the following outcomes/impacts:

  • Practical-oriented knowledge, tools and/or innovations available to farmers and the sector, contributing to the uptake of agroecological practices at local, regional and national scales.
  • Increased knowledge, knowledge transfer and capacity of farmers and agricultural advisors to implement agroecological practices.
  • Increased socio-economic and/or environmental performance of agroecological approaches.
  • Enhanced science-policy interfaces serving to facilitate a faster transition to agroecology.

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Expected results

Topic 1: enhancing the genetic diversity and variability of crops and livestock for the agroecological transition

Diversity, variability, adaptability, and resilience are key characteristics of agroecological systems that should be strengthened through research and innovation across various dimensions. Genetic resources are a major pillar in this effort.

The objective of this call topic is to develop and deploy plant and animal genetic resources adapted to agroecological farming through targeted selection, evaluation, and collaboration across disciplines and among stakeholders. This entails identifying, assessing, using, and ensuring access to context-adapted genetic resources within farming systems. In particular, crops and livestock must be adapted to increasingly variable environmental conditions including resilience to predictable and unpredictable biotic and abiotic stresses. They must be suited to agroecological practices such as mixed cropping, dual-purpose integrated livestock systems, agroforestry, longer rotations, while contributing to an efficient use of water and to the reduction of the use of fertilizers, antibiotics, and chemical pesticides. Furthermore, there is a particular need to develop resilient varieties and breeds adapted to systems such as organic farming, which rely on minimal or no use of fertilizers, plant protection products and antibiotics.

Expected Outcome Topic 1

Projects funded under this topic will contribute to enhancing the availability, use, and valorisation of genetic diversity/variability in crops and livestock to support the agroecological transition across diverse farming systems, including organic production.

Projects are expected to support the development of resilient, inclusive, and sustainable agrifood systems aligned with the EU Green Deal, the Vision for Agriculture and Food, the Common Agriculture Policy, the EU Action Plan for the Development of Organic production and the Long-Term Vision for Rural Areas. Furthermore, projects should contribute to target 4 of the Kunming Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework by supporting activities aiming at maintaining the genetic diversity of domestic species, at risk of being lost.

In addition, they are expected to contribute to at least two of the following expected outcomes:

  • Improved understanding and mobilisation of genetic and phenotypic diversity for greater resilience, adaptability, and performance under diverse environmental contexts, with the purpose of enhancing agroecological transition of cropping systems, livestock systems and integrated crops- livestock systems.
  • Development of breeding approaches that address multi-stress resilience and functional diversity at the holobiont (host + microbiome) level for plants and animals. Special attention should be paid to enhancing resistance to pests and diseases to avoid the use of pesticides and chemical antibiotic veterinary treatments.
  • Enhanced conservation, characterisation, and accessibility of genetic resources, including (old) landraces, local breeds and progenitor races, especially under changing environmental conditions and improved used potential of under-utilised crops or wild plants.
  • New strategies for participatory and co-designed breeding programmes that meet the needs of farmers, breeders, and value chain actors, with a focus on system-level sustainability and sovereignty.
  • Evidence-based insights into how genetic diversity contributes to sustainable food systems, including animal-plant-microbiome complementarities, consumer-relevant traits, and nutritional quality, as well as positive interaction with ecosystems and reduced environmental impact (e.g. GHG emissions)

Both crops and animals are targeted in this topic. Projects may focus on one, the other, or both. Similarly, they may address conventional production systems in agroecological transition, organic farming systems, or both.

Projects are expected to use living labs or similar participatory frameworks, ensuring co-creation of knowledge and real-life applicability of results. Integration in the projects of research infrastructures for phenotyping and genotyping is encouraged.

Furthermore, projects are expected to build on the efforts of and make sure there is no duplication with relevant past, ongoing and upcoming EU-funded R&I projects and relevant Horizon Europe initiatives, including Partnerships, as well as relevant EIP-AGRI Operational Groups, related to genetic resources and conservation in both crops and animal production, and to provide complementary work where relevant, depending on the crops selected. Projects should allocate a part of their budget to ensure interaction with ongoing projects, particularly with those funded under the specific Horizon Europe calls on breeding. This is also the case for organic farming, where projects must avoid duplication and clearly explain how they will complement or build upon the results of other EC-funded research projects focused on organic crop breeding.

Scope Topic 1

Genetic diversity is a cornerstone of resilient, productive, and sustainable agroecological systems. Crops and livestock must perform under heterogeneous and dynamic conditions—across time, space, and systems—while delivering value for producers, consumers, and ecosystems.

Projects should integrate at least one of the subtopics below (for more details see call document pages 12-14). Given the maximum duration of the funded projects (3 years), projects under this topic are required to build on already acquired knowledge.

  • Subtopic 1: Enhancing the use of genotypes adapted to specific environmental conditions to improve resilience and performance
  • Subtopic 2: Plant breeding for agroecological transitions
  • Subtopic 3: Animal breeding for agroecological transitions
  • Subtopic 4: Co-breeding for animal-plant integration in agroecological systems
  • Subtopic 5: Breeding for the agroecological transition and the transition of the entire food system

Topic 2: Strengthening farmers' involvement and empowerment in the transition towards agroecology

To face the social challenges of today’s agriculture, the agroecological transition is part of the solution and is actually seen as attractive to several farmers in particular from the younger generation. This topic focuses on farmers' motivations, skills, and knowledge, the role of advisors, stakeholders and policies in facilitating the transition.

Supporting and encouraging farmers in the agroecological transition requires a deep understanding of their motivations as well as why they might be reluctant to engage in this shift. This involves analyzing the transformation of the farming communities, the evolution of farm structures, and the new forms of work organization that the transition entails. Insights must then be used to inform actions that enable change. Implementing the agroecological transition on a farm is not solely a matter of agronomic efficiency; it also depends on farmers' ability to redesign their farming systems, taking into account the impacts on their lifestyles and their interactions with the local community and the broader environment. Knowledge and tools to support science-based farmers’ choices are needed, along with ways to disseminate their use and expand appropriate skills through peer-to-peer interactions. Procedures are to be explored aiming to support farmers — particularly younger generations — to engage in the transition, to take up opportunities, despite the complexity involved in redesigning crop and livestock systems. This transition therefore relies on the quality and improvement of the support provided by advisory services, the opportunities offered by digital tools and technologies, the collective change processes, the transformation of relationships with upstream and downstream actors along the supply chain, and the role of public policies and policy development.

Expected Outcome Topic 2

This topic addresses factors which affect farmers’ transition to agroecology and thus provide evidence that enable the implementation of strategies, tools and policies to facilitate this change. The goal is to instigate the development of context-sensitive approaches based on farmer participation.

Projects are expected to support the development of resilient, inclusive, and sustainable agrifood systems aligned with the EU Green Deal, the Vision for Agriculture and Food, the Common Agriculture Policy, the EU Action Plan for the Development of Organic production and the Long-Term Vision for Rural Areas.

Furthermore, projects are expected to contribute to at least two of the following expected outcomes:

  • Insights into the motivations, opportunities and constraints faced by farmers and associated diverse rural communities regarding agroecological transitions.
  • Evidence-based strategies to support generational renewal, inclusiveness and gender equity in agroecological farming.
  • Innovative approaches to strengthen advisory services, peer-to-peer learning and collective action, towards the agroecology transition.
  • Evaluation of how effectively the decision support systems used by farmers and advisors support the implementation of agroecological practices

All projects are required to deliver policy recommendations to facilitate farmers’ engagement in agroecology.

Proposals are expected to use Living labs approaches by gathering diverse stakeholders and ensuring that actors from social sciences and humanities play a significant role. It is expected that projects funded under this topic will interact with relevant projects funded under this Partnership, under Horizon Europe and other initiatives and allocate budget for these interactions.

Furthermore, projects are expected to build on the efforts of and make sure there is no duplication with relevant past, ongoing and upcoming EU-funded R&I projects and relevant Horizon Europe initiatives, including Partnerships, as well as relevant EIP-AGRI Operational Groups.

Scope Topic 2

The shift to agroecology involves significant transformations in agricultural methods and production systems and affects farmers' working conditions, roles, and identities. While many farmers are actively engaged in this transition, others remain hesitant or face barriers to engagement. A successful transition requires addressing all relevant social and societal factors. The goal is therefore to take these dimensions into account when endowing farmers with the tools and skills needed to adopt agroecology, and ensuring meaningful guidance towards the agroecological transition - through advisory services, collective change approaches, supply chains actors, and public policies.

Various activities are being carried out within the AGROECOLOGY partnership to promote the development of agroecology through living labs, to study how Agricultural Knowledge and Innovation Systems (AKIS) should evolve to support the agroecological transition, and to provide science-based recommendations to policy makers. Projects under this topic should complement these activities and should therefore explain how they will take into account and interact with the actions carried out within the partnership.

Projects should integrate at least one of the following subtopics (for more details see call document pages 16-19). Bullet points under each subtopic are indicative. Proposals are expected to involve social sciences and humanities.

  • Subtopic 1: Farmers communities and motivations for engagement
  • Subtopic 2: Collective action, peer learning, and social innovation
  • Subtopic 3: Farm work organisation and working conditions
  • Subtopic 4: Role of policies, advisory services, and AKIS

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Eligibility Criteria

Regions / countries for funding

Belgium (Belgique/België), Cyprus (Κύπρος ), Denmark (Danmark), Estonia (Eesti), Finland (Suomi/Finland), France, Germany (Deutschland), Hungary (Magyarország), Ireland (Éire/Ireland), Italy (Italia), Lithuania (Lietuva), Netherlands (Nederland), Norway (Norge), Portugal, Romania (România), Slovakia (Slovensko), Slovenia (Slovenija), Spain (España), Sweden (Sverige), Türkiye

eligible entities

Education and training institution, Non-Profit Organisation (NPO) / Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), Other, Private institution, incl. private company (private for profit), Public Body (national, regional and local; incl. EGTCs), Research Institution incl. University, Small and medium-sized enterprise (SME)

Mandatory partnership

Yes

Project Partnership

Universities and other higher education institutions, public research institutions, profit and non-profit organisations, consumers/citizens, civil society representatives and private companies may apply, subject to the Funders regulations (see Annex IX) and eligibility criteria (section 4.2). Subject to Funders regulations and where a Living Lab is a legal entity, a Living Lab may be eligible. Research consortia must consist of a minimum of three Partners requesting funding from at least three different Members States or Horizon Europe Associated Countries and Funders of this Co-funded call. Applicants, not requesting funding from any Funder are defined as Associated Partner and are welcome to participate in consortia as well. However, Associated Partners cannot be Coordinator, their contribution should not be essential for the project’s successful implementation and they will not count towards the minimum number of Partners.

Coordinator, Partners and Associated Partners must have a Participant Identification Code (PIC). A PIC is a 9-digit number that serves as a unique identifier for legal entities participating in European funding programmes. You can find your PIC or register your organisation to receive one in the EU Funding & Tenders Portal .

Contributors to one proposal which do not perform any tasks but play a role as e.g. advisory body, can be listed as Stakeholder. They do not need a PIC number.

Proposals and Partners must meet both sets of eligibility criteria (see pages 20-22), general and Funder specific eligibility criteria as described in Annex (see Annex IX as download in the online submission platform). Proposals not meeting the general eligibility criteria will be rejected (see 4.3.1). Partners not meeting their Funder specific eligibility criteria will be rejected (see 4.3.2), this results in the rejection of the pre proposal if general eligibility criteria are no longer fulfilled and will result in the rejection of the entire full proposal at any case.

other eligibility criteria

The table in Annex I provides an overview of the different funders per countries, their initial budget, the budget limit per project and the types of partners that are eligible.

Additional information

Topics

Agriculture & Forestry, Fishery, Food, Soil quality, 
Air Quality, Biodiversity & Environment, Climate & Climate Change, Water quality & management, 
Disaster Prevention, Resilience, Risk Management

Relevance for EU Macro-Region

EUSAIR - EU Strategy for the Adriatic and Ionian Region, EUSALP - EU Strategy for the Alpine Space, EUSBSR - EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region, EUSDR - EU Strategy for the Danube Region

UN Sustainable Development Goals (UN-SDGs)

project duration

between 24 and 36 months

Additional Information

The Co-funded call is conducted as a two-step-procedure. As a first step, a pre proposal has to be submitted. If this pre proposal is successfully evaluated and selected to submit a full proposal, the Coordinator receives a respective invitation to submit a full proposal. A full proposal may be submitted only following such an invitation

  • Deadline for pre proposals submission is 18 February 2026, 2 pm CET
  • Deadline for full proposals submission is 08 July 2026, 2 pm CEST

Step 1 Pre proposal phase

The objective of a pre proposal is to present the project idea and the consortium without providing much detail on the work plan. The detailed template for the pre proposal with explanations is provided in Annex II and an example is also available within the document section of the submission platform: https://agroecology.ptj.de.

Following submission, pre proposals will be checked against the general and applicable Funders eligibility criteria as defined in the respective Funder Regulations (see Annex IX). Pre proposals not meeting the general eligibility criteria will be rejected. Partners not meeting the applicable Funder specific eligibility criteria will be rejected and must be deleted from the consortium. Eligible pre proposals will be evaluated.

Step 2 Full proposal phase

Following the invitation to submit a full proposal, the Coordinator can submit a full proposal via the submission platform: https://agroecology.ptj.de. At this stage, Coordinators might be invited to add Partners requesting funding from undersubscribed Funders. Adding Partner(s) requesting funding from undersubscribed Funder(s) occurs only on a voluntary basis and does not automatically result in more chances of success. Any proposed change must be requested as described in section 5.2 and must be submitted on time. Any new Partner must meet all eligibility criteria to receive funding from its Funder. It is strongly recommended to get in contact with the respective Funder first before submitting a request to add a Partner.

The detailed template for full proposals with explanations is provided in Annex IV and an example is also available in the document section of the submission platform.

Funders eligibility criteria, as defined in the respective Funder regulation (see Annex IX), must be respected and the proposed research project must be consistent with the Funder thematic priorities. The Funders may require additional documents according to their own regulations. 

Failure of one Partner to meet any of the eligibility criteria, including the Funders eligibility criteria, will result in rejection of the entire full proposal.

An Associated Partners is considered not eligible if the letter of financial commitment (see Annex VIII) is missing. Thus, the absence of the letter will result in the rejection of the Associated Partner and will be communicated to the IEP before evaluation of this proposal. The Associated Partner will be removed from the consortium.

After the submission deadline, the Call Office will carry out the general eligibility check as described in section 4.3.1. Full proposals not meeting the requirements will be rejected by the Call Office, following consultation with the Funder Board. The members of the Funder Board will check the full proposals against their Funders eligibility criteria as described in the Funding regulations.

Full proposals complying with both sets of criteria (general eligibility criteria and Funders eligibility criteria) will advance to the evaluation procedure.

Call documents

Agroecology Call 3Agroecology Call 3(1402kB)

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