The topic closest to precision agriculture in the entire 2026 round. It funds an innovation action that collects and harmonises data from Europe's existing long-term agronomic field experiments and makes them usable by artificial intelligence algorithms, in order to build soil management decision support systems that farms can actually use. Budget EUR 9 million for a single expected grant: competition is therefore highly concentrated and the winning consortium will be large. Opened 4 February 2026, deadline 23 September 2026 at 17:00.
Consortia including agronomic research centres, data infrastructure operators, digital and precision agriculture companies, advisory services and farms. The multi-actor approach is required by the Soil Mission.
Innovation Action: almeno 3 soggetti giuridici indipendenti stabiliti in 3 diversi Stati membri o paesi associati, di cui almeno 1 in uno Stato membro. Nessun requisito di stabilimento locale per le imprese italiane. Data la dotazione destinata a un unico progetto, il consorzio realistico è molto più ampio del minimo regolamentare.
Status 'Open', budget and dates verified against the official Funding & Tenders Portal data endpoint on 27 August 2026. The 70% funding rate for companies is the Horizon Europe standard for Innovation Actions and was not re-read on this specific topic: to be confirmed in the call document.
Every piece of information on this page was read on 27 August 2026 from the pages below. Where they disagree, the managing body’s document prevails.
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