The Mission Soil is rooted in research and innovation and was launched under Horizon Europe, the EU Research and Innovation (R&I) Programme. Funded projects gather partners from all over Europe and beyond to work together towards achieving the Mission Soil objectives.
The 45 projects funded under the Work Programme 2021-2022 and Work Programme 2023-2024 are presented below.
To find further information about the calls for proposals, please visit the Funding Opportunities section.
| Topic number | Topic title | Awarded project(s) |
|---|---|---|
| HORIZON-MISS-2021-SOIL-01-01 | Preparing the ground for healthy soils: building capacities for engagement, outreach and knowledge | PREPSOIL (project website, CORDIS) |
| HORIZON-MISS-2021-SOIL-02-01 | From knowledge gaps to roadmaps on Soil Mission objectives | SOLO (project website, CORDIS) |
| HORIZON-MISS-2021-SOIL-02-02 | Validating and further developing indicators for soil health and functions | BENCHMARKS (project website, CORDIS), AI4SoilHealth (project website, CORDIS) |
| HORIZON-MISS-2021-SOIL-02-03 | Linking soil health to nutritional and safe food | SOIL O-LIVE (project website, CORDIS) |
| HORIZON-MISS-2021-SOIL-02-05 | Incentives and business models for soil health | NOVASOIL (project website, CORDIS), SoilValues (project website, CORDIS), InBestSoil (project website, CORDIS) |
| HORIZON-MISS-2021-SOIL-02-06 | Engage with and activate municipalities and regions to protect and restore soil health | HuMUS (project website, CORDIS) |
| HORIZON-MISS-2021-SOIL-02-07 | National engagement sessions and support to the establishment of soil health Living Labs | NATI00NS (project website, CORDIS) |
| HORIZON-MISS-2021-SOIL-02-08 | Next generation soil advisors | NBSOIL (project website, CORDIS) |
| HORIZON-MISS-2022-SOIL-01-01 | Building the Mission's knowledge repository and advancing the European Soil Observatory | SoilWise (project website, CORDIS) |
| HORIZON-MISS-2022-SOIL-01-02 | Improving food systems sustainability and soil health with food processing residues | DeliSoil (project website, CORDIS), Waste4Soil (project website, CORDIS) |
| HORIZON-MISS-2022-SOIL-01-03 | Soil biodiversity and its contribution to ecosystem services | BIOservisES (project website, CORDIS), SOB4ES (project website, CORDIS) |
| HORIZON-MISS-2022-SOIL-01-04 | Remediation strategies, methods and financial models for decontamination and reuse of land in urban and rural areas | ARAGORN (project website, CORDIS), ISLANDR (project website, CORDIS), EDAPHOS (project website, CORDIS) |
| HORIZON-MISS-2022-SOIL-01-05 | Monitoring, reporting and verification of soil carbon and greenhouse gases balance | MaRViC (project website, CORDIS), MRV4SOC (project website, CORDIS) |
| HORIZON-MISS-2022-SOIL-01-06 | Network on carbon farming for agricultural and forest soils | CREDIBLE (project website, CORDIS) |
| HORIZON-MISS-2022-SOIL-01-07 | Foster soil education across society | LOESS (project website, CORDIS) CURIOSOIL (project website, CORDIS) |
| HORIZON-MISS-2022-SOIL-01-08 | Framework Partnership Agreement for a Living Lab Network Support Structure | SOILL-Startup (project website, CORDIS) |
| HORIZON-MISS-2022-SOIL-01-09 | Citizen science for soil health | ECHO (project website, CORDIS) |
| HORIZON-MISS-2022-SOIL-01-10 | Innovations for soil improvement from bio-waste | BIN2BEAN (project website, CORDIS), FENIX (project website, CORDIS), bioSOILUTIONS (project website, CORDIS) |
| HORIZON-MISS-2023-SOIL-01-01 | Discovering the subsoil | DeepHorizon (CORDIS) |
| HORIZON-MISS-2023-SOIL-01-02 | Soil pollution processes – modelling and inclusion in advanced digital decision-support tools | SOILPROM (CORDIS) PHISHES (CORDIS) |
| HORIZON-MISS-2023-SOIL-01-03 | Onsite digital technologies to monitor nutrients and chemical or biological stressors in soil and plants with relevance for food safety and nutrition | E-SPFdigit (CORDIS) WHEATWATCHER (CORDIS) |
| HORIZON-MISS-2023-SOIL-01-04 | Innovations to prevent and combat desertification | TERRASAFE (project website, CORDIS) MONALISA (CORDIS) |
| HORIZON-MISS-2023-SOIL-01-05 | Soil-friendly practices in horticulture, including alternative growing media | Hort2thefuture (project website) SPIN-FERT (project website, CORDIS) |
| HORIZON-MISS-2023-SOIL-01-07 | Back to earth: bringing communities and citizens closer to soil | SOILSCAPE (CORDIS) |
| HORIZON-MISS-2023-SOIL-01-08 | Co-creating solutions for soil health in Living Labs | LivingSoiLL (CORDIS) GOV4LL (project website, CORDIS) |
| HORIZON-MISS-2023-CLIMA-OCEAN-SOIL-01-01 | Mission Climate adaptation, Mission Ocean & waters and Mission Soil Deal for Europe – Joint demonstration of an integrated approach to increasing landscape water retention capacity at regional scale | SpongeWorks (CORDIS) |
| HORIZON-MISS-2023-OCEAN-SOIL-01-01 | Mission Ocean and Waters and Mission A Soil Deal for Europe – Joint demonstration of approaches and solutions to address nutrient pollution in the landscape-river-sea system in the Mediterranean sea basin | Path4Med (CORDIS) SEACURE (CORDIS) |