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Agrostar Kairos

Leveraging long-term field experiments and other datasets to develop AI-ready decision support systems for sustainable soil management

This call is closed. The submission deadline was 23 September 2026. It stays in the catalogue because these windows recur: ask to be alerted when it reopens.

What it funds

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.

Who can apply

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.

Access for non-resident businesses

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.

Notes and caveats

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.

Status recalculated. The managing body’s portal listed this scheme as «aperto», but the published deadline says otherwise. In such cases we go by the date.

Sources

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.

Keywords

agricoltura di precisionedigitalizzazionegestione del suolointelligenza artificialericerca e innovazione

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