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 28 projects funded under the Work Programme 2021-2022 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-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 (CORDIS) |
| HORIZON-MISS-2022-SOIL-01-02 | Improving food systems sustainability and soil health with food processing residues | DeliSoil (CORDIS), Waste4Soil (CORDIS) |
| HORIZON-MISS-2022-SOIL-01-03 | Soil biodiversity and its contribution to ecosystem services | BIOservisES (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 (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 (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) |
| HORIZON-MISS-2022-SOIL-01-08 | Framework Partnership Agreement for a Living Lab Network Support Structure | SOILL |
| 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 (CORDIS), FENIX (CORDIS), SOILUTIONS (project website, CORDIS) |